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do a group shot- the entire zeppelin, complete with boiler, bridge, and troops on top so we can get a good look on what needs doing.
lookin' good.

will do so tomorrow...so stay tuned^^

vik

Hmm, I like the idea of bombardment cannons on the bottom. I think the engine should be next to the boiler and should have LARGE smokestacks off to the side. I agree with the groupshot thing too. I just had inspiration for some special hellions while reading this thread too lol.

always my pleasure to inspire^^

cheers, vik

They aren't necessarily steampunk, but the blimp inspired some void sails and extended boards. Imagine hellion riders holding on to a mast and shooting a shard pistol with the other hand. Maybe I could make some form of dirigible DE also...

feel free to post your inspired pics here too...^^

vik

Ok lol. I get payed in two weeks and again two weeks after that so... Maybe a sail based DE Commoragh Sky Fleet would suit me better.

Hey vik , just catching up on your thread , it gets busy if you dont look in often. the boiler is exceptional , 100 times better than i thought it could be. the rivets are amazing , i will deffienately be using that idea from now on. nice to see more of your army as well , the partisan and the commissar are very nice ,and you have some other models i have not seen before. look forward to seeing how your goona put it all together on deck mate . i think that is gonna be a tricky part as you have plenty of ideas! to go with.

who the hell needs official models...scratchbuild them^^


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yep, neil always the finger on the wound...i know i tearing myself apart with all the frontlines i´ve opened up...
the thing is i dont want to rush this airship...although i quite sure that this couldn´t be made anyhow...but i do wamt to paint the army too...maybe i should give in for mercy after the airship is built and paint sme minis? instead of painting the actual airship? naaawww...or?

ach decisions, decisions...

and to tell you the truth...everything looks way better if you add rivets to it...

true! even rivets!

lol or riveted rivets still...

I'd paint a few models before the airship just for a change of pace. I can'r paint marines all day before I get bored and attack my bitz box with glue and a pair of nail clipper lol.

Very cool! I love the boiler and those packs of heads are really sweet. What company makes em?

they´re form west wind productions, secrets of the thrid reich...british line of the SHS seperate heads system... they have lots of other style heads...

Perhaps the third Reich developed the M16 and armed the local snowmen lol.

ah you never now with nazis, zombies and snowmen...always scheming and plotting...have you seriously thought that the recent cold weather fronts are something natural? ??? ah? no there are clever plans underway to get them snowstormtroopers all over europe to storm the last tresholds of the free and literate world to once and for all claim world domination...
look behind you a snowmen is attacking you...

yeah, right. I'm nt falling for that one aga- aaargh!!!!
anyways- pics of the entire thing?

damn thats waht i forgot to do...was giftshopping the whole day...with three youngsters theres some serious cash going down the drain for gifts...

wait a coupla minutes and i will fix a shot for you...man that sounds creepy...

vik

"mummy- there's a scar man trying to take my photo..."

ah...you know so little i have them already...^^

no seriously here are the up to date pics of the fullshot of the airship...boiler HQbridge and a first glimpse of a means of landingear...and under the belly of the blimp the cabins...



full shots...



HQ bridge and boiler iun the back...with little room left for engine gear and stuff...


new landing skiff...with hopefully fully functioning doors/ramps...they will get some blimps as well...

any futher pic requests?

any comments...fire at own will...

vik

lookin' good! how's about a guardrail round the sides?

yep thats still a tricky part here, i have some wooden latches soaking in water to later bend to my whim...i should really do it and heat them up then bend them more easyly but i have to do chores and beat up the christmastree and buy gifts for the childreen too...so that keeps me from doing it that way...git some styrofoammattress that also would do the trick after i did that i would plate the hull of the deck later with cardboard and make it look steelplated like the deck...
time is the major problem here, same with that damned base i want to saw...something always keeps coming up to prevent me from actually doing it...even if it is a simple task...

vik

why is time of the essence? take your time- Better to take ages and get it right than rush and mess it up.

hmm your right master of course, this little padawan just wants to see some progress too...its a bit frustrating to see this big thing and think you will never see it finished...

It is a big project vik, exactly why you shouldn't rush it just to see it finished. There lies the way of burnout. Take your time, enjoy the suspense of the gradual build.

Plus going slow gives you many chances to change things you decide you don't like That's my real reason, honest.

It's really coming together Vik, nice work! so, landing skiffs eh? independent of the bucket or landing straw. heh! will be nice to see what you do to make them look and work.

The main airship is looking so good now.

Oh, wow. You have less space on top than I thought.


From that picture, I'd actually suggest removing the boiler and the command post from the top, and hanging them underneath instead. Any lighter-than-air craft with that much stuff on it would need to have the weight of the boiler, engine and the bulk of that cabin underneath, for stability.


Or, if you really want to keep that stuff on top, either make a second envelope (I know, it'd be a huge undertaking and you probably don't have the material) or else re-do. Make a smaller boiler, and a smaller helm. You can still use the big boiler on something (with as awesome as it is, it'd be a shame to waste it), like a land-dreadnought, something that doesn't need to be lighter than air.

All of those space ships looks horrible

They're not space ships, they're steam-punk zeppelins.They are not meant for inter-stellar travel. And they are very steam-punky IMO.

thanks for the help shrike^^,..

to anvil, i know the airship will look a tad to the humerous or rather unrealistic side. all i can say is that the project evolved and now i have little energy to redo certain things. to place the helm and thus the bridgebuilding and the boiler benaeth the blimp wont happen as this wouldnt look to suit my ideas...i will build certain structures on the underside and also you wull see much more detail there too as for design uses...

i am currently thinking about the two alternative ways of deployment, either skiffs or straw/pipes or even both...skiffs would be more fluffy but with the pipe i would get more stability for keeping it upright...

thanks for all comments, vik