Author Topic: Airship Ideas and Inspiration (Read 31760 times)

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #25 on:** July 19, 2013, 02:10:48 AM »

Lots of goodness their - thanks for posting! :)

Weaver · « **Reply #26 on:** July 25, 2013, 07:28:59 PM »

Part 2 of the Airship Dreams series is up:

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2013/07/airship-dreams-part-2-even-bigger.html

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #27 on:** July 26, 2013, 02:04:01 AM »

I dare someone to model that scene...

jcf · « **Reply #28 on:** July 26, 2013, 02:20:25 AM »

The City of Glendale the Slate all-metal airship:
http://tropicostation.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-zeppelin-over-glendale-and-ill-fated.html

http://articles.glendalenewspress.com/2010-10-13/news/tn-gnp-grant-20101013_1_airship-hangar-santa-ana-winds

The airship was to be propelled by a steam-powered nose mounted 'blower' that was supposedly
going to create an area of differential pressure around the airship thus lubricating its passage
forward, not surprisingly it didn't work. A small engine and propeller were kluged into the back
of the gondola to provide forward motion.

Cliffy B · « **Reply #29 on:** July 26, 2013, 02:21:45 AM »

Quote from: GTX_Admin on July 26, 2013, 02:04:01 AM

I dare someone to model that scene...

Imagine the PE sheets....and the instructions!!!!

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #30 on:** July 26, 2013, 02:31:54 AM »

Nah...do it all with photoetched parts...imagine the blood.

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #31 on:** July 26, 2013, 02:35:06 AM »

Quote from: jcf on July 26, 2013, 02:20:25 AM

The City of Glendale the Slate all-metal airship:
http://tropicostation.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-zeppelin-over-glendale-and-ill-fated.html

http://articles.glendalenewspress.com/2010-10-13/news/tn-gnp-grant-20101013_1_airship-hangar-santa-ana-winds

The airship was to be propelled by a steam-powered nose mounted 'blower' that was supposedly
going to create an area of differential pressure around the airship thus lubricating its passage
forward, not surprisingly it didn't work. A small engine and propeller were kluged into the back
of the gondola to provide forward motion.

Oh yeah!!!.... corrugated metal skinning....that must be built some day!

Cliffy B · « **Reply #32 on:** July 26, 2013, 03:25:45 AM »

Quote from: GTX_Admin on July 26, 2013, 02:31:54 AM

Nah...do it all with photoetched parts...imagine the blood.

Ummm Greg, PE is photo etch dude

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #33 on:** July 27, 2013, 02:32:07 AM »

Doh!!! Grey moment there - I read your post a different way. $:-\$

Cliffy B · « **Reply #34 on:** July 27, 2013, 02:42:10 AM »

No worries man :)

jcf · « **Reply #35 on:** July 27, 2013, 11:30:06 PM »

Ya mean like the Aerobase 1/1000 Graf Zeppelin?

http://fighters.forumactif.com/t52425-graf-zeppelin-au-1-1000-en-photodecoupe-superbe

http://www.aerobase.jp/

http://www.aerobase.de/e_c001.html

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #36 on:** July 28, 2013, 02:58:04 AM »

Oh, that is cool! I am seriously tempted!!!

raafif · « **Reply #37 on:** July 28, 2013, 05:34:33 AM »

maybe with WW1 anniversary coming someone will do a Zeppelin control-cabin in 1/72nd & 1/48th ? Accessory kits could be an engine pod with propeller & an observation "bomb" with crewman climbing back up the rope. Someone is already doing a kit of the proposed Seimens-Schuckert wire-guided missile in 48th.

Weaver · « **Reply #38 on:** August 24, 2013, 08:33:57 PM »

From photoshop contests here:

http://www.worth1000.com/contests/17189/flights-of-fancy
http://www.worth1000.com/contests/21760/flights-of-fancy-2

And a handy review of airship kits (by no means comprehensive):

(from here: http://www.hawkmodels.com/zeppelin70816.html)

(from the Captain Harlock / Queen Esmereldas anime)

Old Wombat · « **Reply #39 on:** August 24, 2013, 09:34:03 PM »

The Captain Harlock / Queen Esmereldas one looks sufficiently different to be interesting... but I'd lose the pirate sailing ship hanging underneath.

Possibly 2 would be sufficient - one for an airship, one for a spaceship.

:)

Guy

Weaver · « **Reply #40 on:** August 24, 2013, 09:43:23 PM »

Quote from: Old Wombat on August 24, 2013, 09:34:03 PM

The Captain Harlock / Queen Esmereldas one looks sufficiently different to be interesting... but I'd lose the pirate sailing ship hanging underneath.

Possibly 2 would be sufficient - one for an airship, one for a spaceship.

:)

Guy

To be honest, I'm not sure what the airship/spaceship dividing line is with that one, but it comes up on a websearch for "airship" and it's the right shape, so.....

Old Wombat · « **Reply #41 on:** August 24, 2013, 09:58:49 PM »

I'm envisioning a future high-speed airship with a rigid hull.

:)

Guy

Jacques Deguerre · « **Reply #42 on:** August 25, 2013, 03:58:43 AM »

Man, I am still kicking myself for not buying that refurbished version of the Hawk Graf Zeppelin for about 1/3 retail when I had the chance. There are times when SWMBO should not be obeyed.

Still want the Queen Emeraldas starship too, with a few mods to make it an Earth- bound (sky-bound?) airship. I'm not willing to pay the current inflated "collector" prices for one, however.

Artoor_K · « **Reply #43 on:** August 25, 2013, 06:11:50 AM »

Maybe something like that, from "The three musketeers" film:

Volkodav · « **Reply #44 on:** August 25, 2013, 03:32:50 PM »

Quote from: Artoor_K on August 25, 2013, 06:11:50 AM

Maybe something like that, from "The three musketeers" film:

Has anyone read the Temeraire series of books by Naomi Novik? Basically dragons are real and they are big and they are used as flying rigged warships in the Napoleonic era, with crews and weapons.

elmayerle · « **Reply #45 on:** August 26, 2013, 08:40:26 AM »

And exceedingly good reads they are, too.

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #46 on:** July 13, 2014, 04:31:02 AM »

On a slightly different tangent, can anyone list what models are available for barrage balloons or observation balloons?

Rickshaw · « **Reply #47 on:** July 13, 2014, 11:04:33 AM »

Quote from: GTX_Admin on July 13, 2014, 04:31:02 AM

On a slightly different tangent, can anyone list what models are available for barrage balloons or observation balloons?

This has been discussed several times at WhatIf and basically there are none, now currently in production, Greg. Most were vacuforms but are long gone by now. I know of a USN blimp made by Combat Models but apart from that, not much else, except the aforementioned injection moulded stuff. I am also aware of an early Zeppelin in resin (I assume the envelope is vacuformed) but can't lay my hands on the link at the moment. I could see a market for some enterprising modeller to make barrage balloons. Some interesting post-war UK radars were going to utilise them to gain height.

jcf · « **Reply #48 on:** July 13, 2014, 01:16:50 PM »

Three WWI types available from Shapeways in 1/144 or 1/288:

http://www.shapeways.com/model/1425244/1-144-avorio-prassone-kite-balloon.html

http://www.shapeways.com/model/1065323/1-144-caquot-type-m-observation-balloon.html (also 1/200)

http://www.shapeways.com/model/1625037/1-144-parseval-siegsfeld-quot-drachen-quot-kite-balloon.html

Rickshaw · « **Reply #49 on:** July 13, 2014, 08:13:33 PM »

I wonder if they could be scaled up to 1/72?


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