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Okay- finally! Tonight I'd like to post a series of photos to try to give a comparison impression of how big the INAS Kittyhawk is:

Doom Pixie Infantry (Scout Snipers):


Doom Pixies in front of a Skat Kat Kitty Karrier Tankette (rigged for missiles):


Skat Kat in front of a Bagheera Tank Killer (things are getting bigger):


Bagheera Tank Killer in front of a Sirocco Wind Tank:


Sirocco in front of a Tom Cat war walker (not bigger, but certainly taller):


Rhino in front of a Baneblade:



Baneblade in front of Chonky Kat:


Another comparison shot:


And from a bit higher:


Finally (for tonight) Doom Pixie, Skat Kat, Baneblade, Chonky Kat:


I've some more shots of just the Kittyhawk, but will post tomorrow. I still have the video to crank out and I have a couple of ideas for shots of the zeppelin with terrain features that might be kind of cool. I need some popsicle sticks for the shadow box and then that should wrap up fairly easily and then I have to figure out what to tackle next!

Thank you for looking in. More follows soonest.

I was finally able to figure out how to get images and (especially) video from my phone onto my laptop, so I can actually try to piece together my little video of the Kittyhawk.

I also have some photos in a darkened environment to better show the running and battle lights:

From aft, showing the port/starboard markers, but a nice view of the running lights also:



The weapons gondola rigged for battle:



And what I believe came out the best- the bridge, also rigged for either night running or battle:



More (and different projects) follows soonest.

Great Northern lights!
Wow, you've been very busy.

How much fun is that!! Great work, mate! The squads and armour look really cool - I love the colours and their basing too.

Thank you Ragsta and Tommygun- I really appreciate you taking the time to drop a comment.

This whole project has been fun- albeit went on longer than ever I intended. And it used all my skills (as poor as many of them might be) and asked for new ones: wiring, soldering, lighting, weathering, plasticard construction, sheet metal construction, magnets, figure painting, decaling, the lot. The next one I build is going to be a bigger diameter hull with a removable side so that you can see the lift bags inside and the hangers, rooms, storage, etc as it would be in a more realistic dirigible.

I saw this short clip on the USS Macon and can't believe they don't make a cut-away kit of her and that there hasn't been a feature movie about her adventures made (although Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow has the scene with Angelina Jolie as the commander of a flying aircraft carrier, except the Macon was real):




I absolutely need to build one of these- some of her features I had in mind for Kittyhawk but she just wasn't big enough to fit them in.

I still want to get a short video of the 'Hawk up, but have already started prepping the next three projects (all much more limited in scope than the 'Hawk): a Smilodon MBT variant, an antique mule cast iron pull toy for refurbishment (a present for my wife) and the shadow box for poor Chip.

Thank you for looking in, more follows soonest.

Finally a chance to post- work has been happening but, as they say "screenshot or it didn't happen".

I've got three projects going on and over the next couple of days hope to get a progress pic up of each.

For tonight, here's a shot of some assembly for the shadowbox for Chip Marshal:



The layout will feature a section of barn stall, over which we hung a 'jolly ball'- very much like the balls we threw at each other in gym class for dodgeball, but with a handle molded on- horses love to play with them. Chip and his partner in crime Sammy (registered 'Sandtracker') would stand on either side of their section of stall wall and play keep-away with that suspended jolly ball for literal hours. And all that mouth action makes them salivate, so the rubber floor mats were covered in horse slobber and if you weren't careful you'd slip and then be covered in it.

A little more work buzzing up popsicle sticks with my Dremel and the stall walls will be cut, glued up and finished. They'll need to be stained with some washes to get a nice brown-grey color and then sealed with matte varnish.

After that, just a session with the hot glue gun and some time on the laptop printing off a couple of good pics of Chip and some painting of the figure to match his markings and then this one is done until Sammy passes (hopefully far down the road).

Thank you for looking in. More follows soonest.