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Looking excellent. This project has come a long way from the earlier incarnations - well done! Now subscribed so that I don't miss any more.

Is that a GB flag down the side... ey but good.
If you add a vox-tower kinda thing to the bridge, as well as fitting to my rules, it will look good. either the planetstrike bastion vox-array or scratch-built...

at shrike: could you post a pic for reference?

at Arakasi :

thank you Arakasi and its nice of you to see you in the ranks of fololowers of this thread, feel free to contribute all you want to add, things that might make sense and all other stuff too...for reference just reread the thread^^

this is the best I could come up with:
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2009/7/24/44283_sm-Communications%2520array%2520on%2520reinforced%2520base.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/249515.page&usg=__H9bFJUkPSNkwh9McGG1hFVI2tCw=&h=902&w=600&sz=43&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=Xs2FCWl_IhaRrM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=77&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwarhammer%2B40k%2Bvox%2Barray%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1R2ACAW_enGB392%26biw%3D1345%26bih%3D506%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=113&vpy=26&dur=200&hovh=275&hovw=183&tx=81&ty=125&ei=bFcTTYfxHYfQjAfCqYD2BQ&oei=V1cTTceaII2zhAfUqJ24Dg&esq=7&page=1&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0

ok, thats something i have already thought about, the concept for that is brewing in my mind and i will hopefully find my creative freespot for that after the busy time ahead^^...

funny the reference shot is also from dakka^^

thanks mate

vik

I have that well the kids actually , its a pretty cool model, and there is loads of bolts you can slice off for other projects. i did.

any more news, vik?

sorry i had a quick mock up with the propeller upside down and out of deck at the tail but was unable to make a pic...all i can say is that i currently cant figure out how to attach it to the ship if i would construct it outside...

whoa mates still some timne left before santa angst can really start...

vik

Are you still planning on using a base? If so, how about mounting it upside-down behind the cabin?

yep i thought of that too...maybee i even dismount the propeller and that yellow cone from the blue filterthingy...

and it will definatly be mounted on a base as in any other way it wouldn´t be any use on the battlefield and the whole point of "air"ship would be lost...
in fact i have a very basic base done but i dont know when i will be able to put one and one together...

don´t know when i will be on next so here is to all followers of my lil ol blog:

merry christmas mateys and have a good and generous santa to fill your stockings^^

vik

Happy Holidays to you too Vik!

thanks mate^^

Merry Christmas matey , catch ya on the flipside

Das ist wunderbar! Der Kaiser sollte es lieben!

That's bloody fantastic! Bismarck would be proud to ride that thing.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
hey, yakface- make an ork "santa" emoticon next year!

second that shrike^^,

thanks shattered soul, i was very close to basing the army on bismark and a kaiser related army but instead i gone full on the quenny side^^ its just the pickelhaube i am not particular to...

I get that. Just remember that by the end of the first World War the pickelhaube was gone and replaced by the stahlhelm.

although the stahlhelm looks way cooler in my book it is also littered with lots of bad imgaes as the nazis and stuff that happened made that look make me slightly wince when i see them...thats a folk thing i guess, when i see hells angels and the likes that tend to use them i have the same reactions...

thats why i bought me the british soupplate helmet...even the name instils pleasure....*ah hot soup*^^

merry christmas fellas

vik


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by the way, did i tell you that i like your drawings shatered soul? what/whom is your style of drawing related from? who is your drawing idol? i have seen that style before, if i am not mistaken in some comic book, but cant put my finger on it ...

It looks far too top-heavy in my opinion... I don't know if you're planning on putting anything on the bottom or not, but you really should... Or else it'll just look like it'd roll straight over if it were to ever fly

Maybe a few ballast bags or a little observation gondola

If you have another egg, I'd say make a second propeller and put them on the sides. It needs to be able to turn, after all. recht, links, recht links and all that.


Frohe Weinachten!

Think i saw this thread in it's infancy and wasn't completely sold but now it is coming together great. Are you gonna have a battleship/star destroyer command module antenna arrray on top? What are the wood 'ribs' that constitute the actual baloon part of the airship? Finally is there room to land a Valkyr on the deck?

Viktor von Domm wrote:although the stahlhelm looks way cooler in my book it is also littered with lots of bad imgaes as the nazis and stuff that happened made that look make me slightly wince when i see them...thats a folk thing i guess, when i see hells angels and the likes that tend to use them i have the same reactions...

thats why i bought me the british soupplate helmet...even the name instils pleasure....*ah hot soup*^^

merry christmas fellas

vik


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by the way, did i tell you that i like your drawings shatered soul? what/whom is your style of drawing related from? who is your drawing idol? i have seen that style before, if i am not mistaken in some comic book, but cant put my finger on it ...

I see where you are coming from with the stahlhelm and it being an icon of evil, what with the Nazi party and the later use by the biker gangs. Personally I feel that too many people let icons and motifs maintain power they shouldn't have. I mean eagles are still used worldwide as national symbols even though the Nazis used them in abundance. Hell look at the Jolly Roger and pirate motifs that evoked fear for sailors for centuries and now you see it everywhere. Anyhow... My artistic style is derived from the styles of Christopher Metzen and Samwise Didier of Blizzard fame, Adrian Smith, who does numerous projects for gaming companies, Todd Lockwood, William O'Connor and finally most prolifically Wayne Reynolds. Thanks for checking out my work.

at shattered soul, so there was the blizzard spark i recognized^^ the rest of the i am sur brilliant artists i have to look up one of these days^^...and your absolutly right that an atitude as mine only works in reinforcing the dark power these icons had and thus still have, but it is difficult to "empty" these things in ones mind...

at Perkustin
i think there wont be space enough for a valk to land on...there will be two lading skiffs like in return of the jedi however so ...and the middlesection of the blimp is made from an old CD racket from IKEA i didn´t use anymore^^ you probably know these odd moments when you see something of everyday life in new light^^

at anvildude:
there are about i guess 9 "eggs" more, so there will be definatly more propellers to be seen. in fact i plan on adding at least 4 engines like the one on the backside to be used for VTOL...

and weety:
there will be at least two or even four gondolas for shooting and maybe the backfaced propeller to be situated from on the bottom of the airship...

there will be pics of all that as soon as i have a bit more time on my hands when the kids are not so demanding in time...

cheers everybody, vik

A valkyrie landing and taking off from that would look so cool...
I agree with more propellers.

And then he has to show us the paint work!^^

See, I do not understand why you do not just have the propellers on the sides, on swivel (turning) mounts. I cannot imagine it would be too much more difficult...

at anvil:
i think we have a speach problem here, might you provide some sketches or a pic of wb found that could help? i think i have stated that i will build at least four of your suggested
propellers on the sides to keep the whole thing aloft...

at shaso:
be sure of that^^

at shrike:
i guess it would be cool, but also the valk would probably take a whole lot of the attention of the airship away...so it is a no go^^ as i want the whole attention^^

vik

Wow, the airship looks fantastic.

Have you thought about adding bomb bay doors or bomb pylons to the side/bottom of it?

An illustration


You could totally use it as a marauder bomber too with paratroopers dropping from it

i posted that pic of an airship a bit before, tho from a different angle. bombs wont happen, they might be good in game but for me off limits...not my style. there will be a different methode for deployment tho^^...

vik