For those of you who followed my blog and then watched it drop off for the summer; fear not! I am back for another season of modeling converting and hobbying. I have completed my obligation to Alliance LARP one more season and I can get back to some of the things I have wanted to do, but haven't had the time.First thing on my roster of stuff I
want to do: Zeppelins. I promised that I was going to make 'em. I made good headway, and now I am back to it.To the left are my progress shots. Over the last few days I had managed to get my work space cleaned out and back up to snuff. I began working on my Zeps on Friday night this past week. First step, Magnets... I magnetized damned near everything I could on these blasted vehicles. The gas bag is magnetized to the gondola. The cabin is magnetized to the gondola, the doors are magnetized. The sponsons are magnetized to the sides, the weapon mountings are
magnetized to the cabin... and so on and so on and so on. Why so many magnets? I have them so I can break down the zeppelins and stow them away without any obnoxious protrusions to confound the "feng shui" of my figure case foams. I can add or remove weapon options as I see fit to make them as Valkyries or Vendettas. The magnets would not have been such a pain if I wasn't making 3 of them at the same time. Sadly I will be hard pressed to get them ready for Mechanicon '10, t
he first weekend in November.After I got all of the magnets set into place I got my resin tail fins set into place on the scaffolding and put the rudders on as well. They were pinned and glued today to make the bags almost ready to be painted. (I still need to figure out the little extras on them like the observation howda, and the moorings to attach the bag physically to the gondolas to make them lo
ok a little more believable. Not pictured here is the work I did today on the cabins. I am trying to get the glass panels ready to mount, so I can get the roofing made as well. (everything in order I suppose) So I did a lot of work on the exterior of the cabins and will get the gondolas up to the same appearance as well.
The inset rivets on the Valkyrie models are no good for the lower technology level of my Vostroyans. I will be adding extra banding to the exterior and lots of rivets as well. I believe I am going to take a note from
Forge World and get a water filter to make the rivets this time...In either case, this is a WIP of the "test fits" for the whole model put together at this point. well, 18 days to go. Wish me luck!
- Bossman
It is good to see you back in action! The Gondolas are looking good, though the gas bag seems rushed, the wrinkles and pinches in the fabric just do not seem right. I have been contemplating borrowing some of the specifics of this idea for my WWI themed army, but using the WWI observation balloon style airbag. It is good to see progress, and I can hardly wait to see the finished products. You mentioned taking a note from Forge World in regards to rivets using water filters, care to share?
ReplyDeleteForge World suggests that you break open a water filter and use the tiny balls that make up most of it. You make a small depression in the surface you wish to "rivet" then glue one of the balls half way into the setting.
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