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you melted the rods to get the curves???...blimey...

but...but...but...all now lost to our eyes due to the cover...

tho I love these stitches!


you probably did some research right? so I can probably skip mentioning the orky football blimp that can be found here in the gallery? ...

but I feel your pain mate... there are so many tries to crate a fitting shape for an airship... believe me... I am currently thinking about version mark twelve or something for my own steampunk one...

so be brave and move further^^

as for the half track...a beauty, can´t be called anything less...*bows*

cheers vik

(and as for private life... keep your head up mate! I cross my fingers for better times!!!)

Excellent blimp their cam. That is meky geniunity rite there.

Needs a caravan attached underneath..

I am intrigued to know how did you do the stitching?

That certainly looks the part for an orky recon blimp. Asymmetrical bag, wonky pylons and chunky stitches. Sorted

Just how big where you planning on making da indy burga? Perhaps build your frame around the tube of a large coke bottle.

Also need to think about where the blimp is being wrecked...may be only framework visible at points.

Keep your spirits up.

Just a comment for when you start painting... hydrogen burns more orange than red or yellow... something to keep in mind when you get to the painting stage.

Air ship is looking very nice, and original!

That trukk looks great! rough cast and work is great for Orks.

 Ruglud wrote:
Dat truk is da nutz... Paint it red ...

I like the way you think

Now the Zeppelin. Cool idea. However (yes, I'm gonna be TFG) would the cover look better if it were taut, or even bulging a bit, like it was over-inflated? It would be just like orcs to do that. That, and/or add some more vertical stitching to give a sense of panels.

I'm very curious to see the gondola for it. And the fins.

watching with anticipation...i think more than a few of us are looking forward to seeing how you tackle this project. i watched Automata yesterday, and it made me *really* want to build an airship now...

...or insanely brilliant!

Firstly that truck is utterly awesome. Fantastic work!

I have a soft spot in my heart for blimps, interesting so far.

Hah, now that's awesome. Ork blimp... how could it *not* explode in a massive green fireball

Just had to point out that pure Hydrogen-Oxygen burns with a colourless flame (actually emits in the UV range). Impurities are what would add colour to the flame. Unburnt Carbon gives you the orange colours of "normal" fire and Carbon Dioxide give you the blue of natural gas flames, for example.

Good job on the frame build and I really like the stitches.

I agree with Red that the balloon could look more inflated. Maybe try gluing a piece to the frame and then heating it while holding it upside-down so it sags down away from the frame.

Look forward to progress.

Now you just need to make 98 more of them, and paint them all red!

 Dr H wrote:
Just had to point out that pure Hydrogen-Oxygen burns with a colourless flame (actually emits in the UV range). Impurities are what would add colour to the flame. Unburnt Carbon gives you the orange colours of "normal" fire and Carbon Dioxide give you the blue of natural gas flames, for example.

I've gotta science nerd out on this one!
Enjoy this video... they have an entire series, and more all the time!




Also, observers on the ground during the Hindenburg explosion noted the redness of the flames. This is most likely due to the hydrogen giving off energy from the Balmer 6->2 transition before for reacting. In the Hindenburg explosion and the pure hydrogen balloon, the hydrogen is poorly mixed with oxygen causing a slow reaction speed. This slow reaction speed allows significant heating of the unreacted Hydrogen.
When burning hydrogen in a burner, the ratio of hydrogen and oxygen should be nicely stoichiometric leaving little if any unreacted hydrogen to heat. Then the predominant color would be in the ultraviolet (Oxygen hydogen bond formation).

I do have to admit, that I hadn't thought of the bonds that are forming as determining the colors. I might have been asleep that day in PChem.

But back to the point... Great work and I can't wait to see the finished burning grot dirigible.

congrats on front page (in project logs)!

Ah yes. I was thinking of a Bunsen burner type situation and hadn't thought about the less than ideal mixture with oxygen in a balloon.

Of course, the H-alpha line that astronomer's like so much. At 656nm wavelength (I did have a wikiP' of Balmer series, I don't have the sort of memory to pull out numbers like that) that's quite "far" red, which is nearly near-IR (which starts in the 700's). That's why it's often lost in the orange glow.

Yeah, there's a lot of energy to be had in bond formation.

Anyway, on with the modelling.

Dr. H, I love finding people as passionate about Chemistry and Gaming as myself!

What a great video...

Any science is good, but chemistry is best.

Yeah, after that one I got caught hopping around other of their vids for a while

Biochemistry is best, Doc. But no matter the *chemistry or *physics, yeah, the best. But let's not give those psychologists and sociologists a complex eh? They are people too...

Ergh, anything with biology involved is just so messy. Those cells just don't do the same thing every time, in a predictable way. Bloody cells and their peptides and lipids and things...

Nah. You want Metallurgy. You can actually do useful stuff with it.

Cool Truck and HindenOrk, I have learnt something today, science is blowing stuff up!

Think I will just sit at the back of the class and smoke out the window

Thank you all so much, fantastic responses. All suggestions are taken in, and are noted.

Been crazy here, but have done a little bit.

As I said before I was not happy with the previous airship design. Could not get the Balloning effect I wanted, and impractical design method, however, it will get used, probably in this project but we will see.

Time is marching on now and normally by now I have just about finished, let alone not really started..... So I thought about the design of the blimp.

I want to do something along this lines....


So I thought I could do circles to act as ribs, then join them up with strutts, throw on a skin and ......blimp?

Right need some circles of a good size!? Nothing.......Oh could buy some small plastic picture frames!, ....No.......Oh ok I will make some then.....

Now if you want to see the "making of" (very looselycalled )tut, please nip over to my other thread, done a bit about mold making and casting over there. Strictly an Idiots guide, as it was an idiot who typed it.

In the end here I am with some circles about the right size.....


Going to rib them up and go from there. Should hopefully get that done today.

Thank you so much for looking in and your comments are a tonic.

Thats a great idea ( makes sense what they are for now after reading your other thread ) gives you some detailed sections and a support structure at the same time

Looking at the scale and size of this it is going to be huge good luck mate but this should be awesome

отличные работы. багги великолепны! украду несколько ваших идей! (пользуюсь автоматическим переводчиком! извините за мой английский.)
excellent work. buggies are great! : thumbsup: steal some of your ideas! (I use an automatic translator ! sorry for my English . )

Thank you Kenderthistle, you are wwelcome to any and all ideas, thats what I am here for.

And no apology necessary, we are one world on Dakka, thank you for the English, I am afraid I am a typically ignorant Brit where language is concerned.

i thought the old airship was pretty orky...but maybe a bit on the warhammer fantasy side of orky. this new design seems like the project is going to be huge...good luck!