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any tips you could give for what to use and maybe even how i should go for painting dials?...
i could just puch out some bigger rivets to use as dials...hmmm or i could search the buttons in the sewing box of my wife...

as for levers i will probably find suitable items in the lego box...poor chidren, the will loose so much^^

vik

what about using your hole punch idea to make dials?
nice sig btw very xmas

yep had to change avatar due to a thread^^

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http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/330869.page

dont know if this will stay tho^^

at least i will try out the holepucher to get the discs...i might use it like the loar rivets...tho i have to say that the built of the boiler is very fragile...


will do dry fits tests in the morning...


vik

For dials what I sometimes do to make aircraft instrument panels is to
paint the dial white (you could use correction fluid)
paint it black
scratch off the black paint with a needle to make the white line show through.

If you have some round section plastic or better still round section tube you could slice off bits to make the bezel (That is the brass rim that holds the glass)
Biros might be useful

hth

hmmm thats some interessting thoughts you have sent me^^, that will making going to sleep really hard...
well i have soe tubing and also i could use pins on our corkwall to use too. that correction fluid tip i will defiantly try out. sound really cool...if it works thats a real timesaver and worry saver...

aren´t biros a bit small in diameter? i have some i wanted to use as gunbarrels in my bitsbox...now come to think of i have some good looking odd ends from a pencil i could use...

half of the fun is rumaging around a bits or odd ends box^^

thanks mateys, will have a rest for now, read you all in the morning...

cheers, vik

Possibly Vik
but I usually work in 1/72 scale so biros are too big!

The outer casing of a disposable pen might work, but if yo have suitable tubes then that is sorted.
If you have some gloss varnish a dab on the dial will nicely do for the glass.

I haven't been paying attention to this thread and now I'm regretting it. This has given me insiration for a game board airship.

at draglide:

welcome to the rank^^, and also welcome to the rank of airship meddlers^^
seems where getting more and more^^

at chibi, its rather sad that i cant have aquick look in the gallery for your stuff. would love to see something from it. 1/76 scale sound very hard to do...but lots of cheaper models to go for...its always the same money=time. either way the more you want to save up on the one the more you have to spend on the other...there is no way around it.
later this day i will do some mockups. late in the night i had a quick rumarage around in the odds ends box and found quite interessting objects to use...also what do you think about adding a console beside the boiler. something wioth lots of dials and levers and athermomenter lkie tube of glas for measuring water in the boiler?

thank you all for your great help, this is waht truly makes this thread fun for me^^

yours vik

so fellas i took your suggestions to heart and went wild on the logo box of my kids. fear not they´re pretty willing to contribute stuff to my builts.
as the following pics are again only wip pics some of the vision is surley lost seeing it all natural...

the part of the round object on the left side with the cross in the middle will look like:



its made from an old pencil casing and sawed off mostly...

the bigger round and rectangular object is from a spray cleaner inside the spraygunpart...will be something of a monitor/seethrough window to view the inside of the boiler.
rest is legoparts like backpacks, levers and also see those two disks on the far left? there from drapeholders, the things that keep the cloth of your drapes from falling... the also will be kind of manometers...

so here is the next instalment of the boiler now with console as advertised...




if you want to add something or just praise me^^ feel free to deliver, also the odd comment is apreciated too...

vik

Yep, that's what was missing alright

i have to add some pipes as to transfer the steampowered energy to the engines for propulsion and so on...where should i place them? its kind of crowded now on that boiler thing^^ also i wanted to add a big wheel of sorts to the thing...should i still do that?

vik

Drive pipes I'd put above the original lego wheels you put in place, two pipes one over each wheel set. As for another big wheel, I don't think it's necessary, but extra wheels/cogs/levers never hurt do they

^^ yep thats what i thought too, about the position of pipes And extra wheels and cogs...
saw a tut on terra genesis how to make cool looking cogs from feltpens and marker hats...this boiler has been a tough piece to think up, but now that so much stands before me i want to paint it. but i swore an oath to built the whole thing before the painting can start... must compose myself...

vik

boiler dials look just right mate.

It is all coming together Vik!

Few steampunk armies ever last long. Glad to see your dedication!

thank you good sirs^^

maybe tomorow i can stitch something up for to go as enginges vertical propulsion...have some good looking parts laying around...

vik

Still imagining that thing floating over the battlefield, guns blazing.

Oh yeah baby
that is looking good!

thank your sirs^^, floating battlecastle thats waht i wanted to achieve anyways^^

vik

This is going so well, I just can't contain my excitement to see these finished. Sie sind ganz toll!

For troops you should toss in some necron legs for steampunkish cyborg look. Just an idea would instead of having just propellers add platforms with small buildings to the sides with more jet enginey feel.

at shattered soul:
stehen Sie bequem! weitermachen!
thanks for the encouraging words^^ where did you learn that sentence? i loled as i read that, its so fitting to your avatar^^...

at Draglide12
could you explain that a bit more or even show some reference pics? i lkie your idea put find it atm hard to picture it...
as for the necron legs and arms maybe...that sir is a very cool idea. as it happens to be i still have some arts lying around i thought i would never use...cool thanbk you^^

as fro my promised pics of mock up engines i cant provide them. my efforts havent produced showable products. i seem to be unable to create propellers or anything near it ...have quite a good body for the engine bute the actual mechanics i find quite hard to built...

vik

I have seen and used clear plastic discs for propellers, (Makes them look like they are spinning,) with streaks of paint to make them look like they are running.

better still you could motorise them and actaully have them spinning!

hmmm wouldn´t look the look so to say for me...i have the idea actually to buy some pistol heli thingys from the toystore. the ones you fire in the air with a pistol and the look lire rotors from a heli...

vik

nice idea
Have chucked tose away that my daughter got free from the Beano
Still have a couple of small ones.

Bah two helicopters but only one set of rotors with 3 blades
2" diameter.
may still have some larger knocking about but not sure.
any use to you Vik?

The idea was a large platform off to the sides of the central structure. These platforms have engines on the ends (2-4 inch pvc for a picture, about -8 inches to the tip from landing platform) These platforms have some small buildings and aa guns to give it more of a flying carrier than flying landing pad feel. just an idea, like it as is too.

actually i dont really know how big rotors have to be...the engines will be placed beside the deck and the blimp...since i havent built the deckhull i cant really say for sure as to how large the could be. i will definatly do a mock pic to show waht i´ve meant and to better show what i want to achieve... thanks for the offer chibi.
by the way i ask again would you provide a link for a view of your talents? i am seriously interessted...

the thing with the engines and the rotors is i have to ideas. either do biger rotors and fewer engines OR make smaller rotors (more like fans of jets...) and more engines then...
either way would look good.

here are some "products" i up until now hadn´t deemed fit to show...

engine body with "link" to shiphull, wont be seen in later wip´s tho...


sorry excuse for lazyness this was an easy mock up with some bottlecaps cut and brought together by nail...


vik

so are the engines like , jet engines? so you could have about four of these ... or one big one ? or all of them! i think they jet engines look exatcly like the real deal. and you should use these i think! just have a huge prop at the back and these for steering. nice scratch build mate.