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now i understand you chibi...but i have to tell you there is are no plans that involve plane flight. so in short this will be more a landingplatform for vertical uplifting aircraft like ballons and small zeppelins...

i have some tank and some aircaft sprues that i should check for bits to use...the thing is almost anything in original that looks like crap can look tremendously good when painted for 28mm scale, its like a special form of camo to thing^^

as for ties etc i thought you´ve meant hanging cables when the big thing is parked...like ships do when they are at the harbor...

what i can see the wheels are the thing that gives your slurpy creation the spark of life... truly they look like the handles of the waterpipes in the shed of my old gandpa...i picture them exactly like this in my memory^^

today i cant present pics as my camera is in possesion of my wife which will use it at work for something or other...so expect updates in the evening CET...^^

thank mates, vik

Balloons would definitely need tying down
Have to say your idea does sound good

yeah its today only ideas tho i have the parts for all of them lying about the room, but first things first...^^
got to walk before you can run^^

and yeah the ballon will definatly get tied down...

vik

Vik, if you have left over parts from Russ and Chimera kits, like the small handles that can be glued to the side of the things, then you have tie downs already! ^^

small parts that you may have overlooked can fill in for other things similar to them in nature, I love it! I can see those surrounding your VTOL pad. It just depends upon how many of the small hand grips you have lying about in a bitz box.

sorry but no tank sprues to use...the ones i got i have are from a ripped off sprue from the flea market...but i think i have so many extra bits from lego and other things i just couldn´t bring myself to throw away that there will be something to fill the gap...for now its groundwork still. the fun part will start when i have the overall frame done..then this beast will get into a frenzy^^...

vik

Looking forwards to seeing the final results!

i will post some pics of my work done today, worked on the bridge and built for it two buildings that will represent a two storey building made of cardstock boxes and ...well a bit difficult to discribe...also all but far from final^^

thanks for tuning in, g`night vik

Those hole punch riveted metal plates are really cool. I'd hazard to say that you could do alot of interesting stuff with armor plate construction using that technique.

I've decided to build one myself too. As now im free for the summer. I can build a frame... but cant think of anything to use as like the balloon material itself. I was thinking paper mache? I have drawn up some concepts and I will post em later, when I get my camera back.. Damn sister.

please do aqua, there is one decission you have to make beforehand, will the blimp skelleton be outside or inside? inside is the traditional way and if you want to do papermachè i would recommend this. i had lots of bad moments and swearing with the other side^^...
but i wanted this archaic look of an exoskeleton...

at agro:
jep i will do so and it is suitable for lots of other things...maybe one day you all will see a scratchbuild tank from me that way. also i would go so far as to say this technique is made for orks...

vik


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so ladies and gentlemen,
time for some updates.

i´ve been working on the building that will host the command and bridge to steer that giant of a vessel...
out of the before mentioned boxes i no modeled a two storey "shed"...
doors and windows are still in the process of shaping. quite in fact i need for this some help. i want to bullseys and i´m not that good in cutting cardboard round so for now i used feltdisks for gliders of chairs...so that the chairs do not hurt wooden floars... they´re thick and have a texture that i don´t associate with window frames...what to do?
door will be easier i guess so as it doesn´t have to be a circle... so basicaly i need a hint how to shape two overlaying circles to form a bit of recognizable texture. and i need to do it on the cheap side as i have to do at least 12 of them, maybe more...
for now i used these felt things and hammered a circle in them by means of a punchholer of the larger kind...

also i am now heavy in the wip for the heating/boiler device to have the first part of an engine for the airship. also, no pics of that i cout two parts the size of the deck out of foamcore, the pink one to later form/carve the hull of the deck out of it...this will maybe get a bit nasty as i don´t own a hot wire cutter and will involve creating angles in the foamcore and so on...

well i guess i´ve wrote enough for the done work and now is the time to show the work in the fesh so to speak...:

upper storey of the bridge shed with mentioned bullseys...


closeup of felt gliders with hammered circles...


the tool i used, that makes some nasty wholes i tell you^^...


the bridge outer scenery with the commanding stuff in black anger as all is still not painted...even them...

please notice the use of the nice flowers on the rim of the railing...

command staff on deck with shed...


vessel as is for now in last action wip...


thanks for stepping by, do come again and maybe leave a comment or some critics...whatever you feel is necessary.

vik

command deck looks good mate. wll have a proper look in the morn

Portholes!! brass I'm sure. The floral motif around the edge made me smile - It really is made out of everyday domestic materials

the woprd bullseys i got from bubblefish so now i looked it up in proper traslator and portholes^^ YESSSS! and i wouldn´t aim for less than brass^^ lots of brass even^^

but i need help, as i said, the stuff i now use look not the part. how to achive with limited funds the same effect as to go into a hobbyshop?

the wife wasn´t too pleased as she saw the boxes, she expected them as her gift...she likes boxes...but they´re now on santas list^^

vik

Oh I'm sure it will look the part whn painted - but it wouldn't hurt to put a top rail on the rim of the bridge and some kind of detail underneath it - Gothic arches? or maybe something a bit more 1900

hadn´t thought about that yet....hmmm... toprailings made out of sprue?? cool. and gothik detail? well i wanted to do not so many skulls and no aquillas when possible...the arches i can possibly do on the flowered railing maybe? what do you think?

also if i can pull that up i could do some gaslights? zthat would ceratinly add a bit of the old victorian flavor, non?

vik

Please Vik
NO SKULLS! please let this be a SKULL FREE ZONE!

Gas lights and gasbags
Sounds great.
(I assume the gas is Helium not Hydrogen!)

Perhaps a few crown symbols instead of aquilas? dont know if it would look tacky? coat of arms?

i do really want to make this as skulll-less as possible...
gaslanterns and bags(?) sure. maybe i could use some of the DA sprue? these kind of relique things?

crowns also sound god, but i have to be carefull as if i over do it the will look like pretty marines^^

and the queeenie would be not amused...

vik

Lions dragons wyverns are all good too
Anything heraldic

If you have any spare 1/76 scale Knights would work here and there, just their heads for example.
or their shields.

interseting ideas... i got some fatasy imp shields left...the ones where you had to add the deatail, cross skull^^ and cant figure out what the other was...and lots of elves style stuff too...
would that work?

vik

Leopards rampant?

pardon?

Don't see why not
could always blue tac them on to see how it looks.

this may be of interest
http://unknownskywalker.tumblr.com/post/808898455

Interesting how you tried to model something from real life

well i tend to use everything i get my hands on^^...

at chibi, that loos stunning... one day i have to go to london...never crossed the channel...there is so much to be seen in your country...

well fellas i´m off for now, will catch up in the morning...

cheers and over, vik

Hey mate , i like the fact you made a deck for the minis , it makes more sense, you can actually use it in games as well.
now you have to identify that steampunk look, i think your engine and gas lamps will go a long way in achieving this, as for you undercarriage , i agree with weety in that a gothic look would work well , maybe look towards the eifel tower for inspiration, i have a link to the great worlds fair of 1900 in paris, a collection of photos from the event , i have found them extreemley helpful when designing a steampunk style look. , i think archways of card holepunched through may resemble steel girders!
linky

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/archives/image/2656/image

i really like the idea of steel girders made out of holepunched cardboard...easyly done, cheap and will probably look cool when painted. expect some tries in the late hours today, thats a job for....well me^^

if i can make enough progress about the boiler i will show it as well, i have roughly used your lokomotive link you posted. will look nicely when done. should i built it on a platform? also i will attach a big wheel for transmission the force to the propellerengine...this will prvide a scratchbuilders fun as much as possible^^

thanks for the hint, the pics of the fair looks really good, will serve me well.

vik

this is looking really good.
i havent watched steampunk in a long time
how big is your model going to come out?
i look forward to seeing more
keep it up

btw the steel plating looks excelent! i will surely have to use this idea somewhere! looking at your behemoth again, i wonder if your bridge rather the ground building looks slightly too big? , it looks fine but i think you loose some empahsis on the size of the blimp. maybe not , though , it kinda reminds me of those huge oil tankers . powering its way through the skies

i think your right about the building being a bit to big, but there is now no going back. i have droped the fist idea of a kind of aircarrier type of airship. there will be a sidekick vessel tho but not many others landing and taking of from it. with the teamengine in the back, the bridge in the midlle and some heavy weapons up front there will be little room left for leasure place... maybe i should do the boilder smaller...i´ll post later pics of the soon to be boiler and i´m always open to suggestions...

vik


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hello interessted mind:

so i have left the building of the building....lol.. to rest and have started with the boiler. i think the pics will speak for themselfs as to what material i used as it is pretty easy to identify them.
and in the latter pics i will show you my latest and soon to be converted models. they shall feel my blade and will be reborn as naval guardsman...and for special appereance i have the sniper and the piper. for the latter i would like to get some good uses to get suggested by you my fair reader...

so here goes:





and the new additions to the fold...


sniper

piper