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The blimp fits nicely with the gondola, match made in heaven (or at least very high in the sky). Good job.

and strange 3D, puffing up paint sounds interesting.

1. The blimp is amazing Vik! Your use of angles is impressive.
2. Fast zombies are wrong, just pure wrong, makes survivor stories harder to swallow when they aren't lumbering and dumb.

The robot who rises up against the judges and humanity is called Call Me Ishmael in reference to the Melville character. I'm pretty meh about fast zombies myself...

 dsteingass wrote:
1. The blimp is amazing Vik! Your use of angles is impressive.
2. Fast zombies are wrong, just pure wrong, makes survivor stories harder to swallow when they aren't lumbering and dumb.

I agree on both accounts !!

Not insisting on more heli-rotors, was just a suggestion Vik

Yeah, fell runner zombies/mutants and such makes it hard to get the shots in

I looked through the art store the other day while the kids were taking a sculpting class, I saw every other sort of shape, but nothing even close to that cool , I'll have to check some other stores. Not hat you have me hinting of steam blimps .

well... when i fool around on playgrounds i tend to hunt my kids as a zombie... and i begin shambling and when everyone is in the right mood i strat to be a runner... and it always gets some of these akward and frightened chuckles out of them.... yes... i am not always a picture book dad (that little speech means... i like runners, as they raise the stakes and are a better villian for any hero...and every hero is only as good as his oponent villian is bad... the badder the better )

well good hunting theo... i wont believe you will not be able to find this kind of tool... and funny that you menttioned some more direct form of inspiration... i have thought for quite a bit about starting my own competition... what do you think about this?

ok... so much for that...

now to other good looking stuff...

the scaleshot... much needed to set everything in perspective:



and these are some shots of the vickers-like weapon system that if they look ok will get glued to the portholes...:





hope you like...

cheers, vik

Guns look good. Are they made from those hammer-in wooden dowels?

exactly... i put in a chopstick and the base is a very small hemisphere... quite fiddly to do...

Vik-er MG's, Love 'em!

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
exactly... i put in a chopstick and the base is a very small hemisphere... quite fiddly to do...

Love it when you come out with things like this. Another good use of everyday bits.

Another good use of everyday bits.

you can´t imagine my hunted look in my face when i do shopping... i always look for big packs of every day items and try to find a use for the hobby... it is not an easy feat i may add

and thanks shaso...Vik- er... lol...

Once again your thought process prevails, is any material safe from the hands of the crazy creator


I did not realise the extent of the size Dam thats bigger than I anticipated impressive with scale alone

Now this opens the debate for extreme detailing no but looks great

is any material safe from the hands of the crazy creator

for a given value of no...er...no

as for the detailing... yeah there will be some ...

lots of cool ideas have been floating around already... some i hope to make true...^^

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

is any material safe from the hands of the crazy creator

for a given value of no...er...no

as for the detailing... yeah there will be some ...

lots of cool ideas have been floating around already... some i hope to make true...^^

Are those cool ideas going to involve some big fans, you know to make things cool? Haha

You have some amazing work, still looks like a long stretch for the finishing touches.

The paneled look makes me think we may see more of Viks special scroll works and other artistic ideas.

Looking brilliant. Love the end shape. And Damn that thing is huge.

Ive missed too bloody much vik
Updates are now looking great as allways and that bloody airship looks amazing!

Next week, vik builds a blimp aircraft carrier!

 dsteingass wrote:
Next week, vik builds a blimp aircraft carrier!

Would that be a blimp which is also a carrier for other blimps this size? Or just a blimp carrier that other planes could land on, kind of like an avengers helicarrier but steampunkish?

Why not both?

You'd need a mother-blimp big enough to moor smaller blimps, but I was thinking of propeller-driven aircraft to launch and swarm their enemies like flies

Come on Vik, you know you want to...

WOW that blimp is HUGE !!!

The enemy forces will have to fight in the shade

Nice design

 Ruglud wrote:
Come on Vik, you know you want to...

Spoiler:

Add a splash of rivets.

at not_u that design was my very fist idea for the airship... it was a way too heavy build... but I like it still...

at ruglud... yeap... I want to... I admit it but actually the albatross shaso showed I think will be more likely next time...

at adam... LOL... it will provide lots of shadow at least^^

and thanks to all the other praise !

soon I will update again^^... yesterday I took my beauty sleep

Use lighter material.

from firelighters ?...

well the first one indeed had quite a big amount of wood inn the mix... more cardboard would indeed make it lighter... and PC of course too...

Maybe plastic buckets or plant pots could work as internal structure?