Airship Carrier?

[warrenpeace]

Don't forget that there was a Russian bomber in the interwar period that could carry a couple of fighters and drop them to act as escorts.

[Big Guy]

IIRC the Americans tried that as well, but after WW2.

[Geudens]

This is my solution: the "75CL class" with hook-on fighter plane:

http://www.rudi-geudens.be/html/afriboria_air.htm

Rudi

[Argonor]

Is that a sardines can??? So simple, so easy, so cheap to get... Brilliant stuff, lot's of great inspiration.

Note to self: Buy limonade and sardines.....  

[Geudens]

Is that a sardines can??? So simple, so easy, so cheap to get... Brilliant stuff, lot's of great inspiration.

Note to self: Buy limonade and sardines.....  

Yes, it's a sardines can with a victorian look (...).  One can also use it upside down as I did as a base for the armoured deck citadel of the "Charles Martell" ironclad (the light grey part of the superstructure):

http://www.rudi-geudens.be/html/afriboria_ships.htm

The balloon part of the 75CL class airships is NOT an empty limonade bottle, but a HARD plastic "champagne bottle" ("Celebrations "Sparkling Mix") (with the top sawn off) sold by Masterfoods filled with sweets (Mars, Bounty etc) - see this pic:

http://www.suessware.de/Sonderangebote/Celebrations-Sparkling-Mix::683.html

To be able to get the sweets out, the bottom screws off, which is very handy for glueing attachements from the inside.

Rudi

[Argonor]

I realized they weren't limonade bottles  :wink:

I just want a 'cigar'-look to my airship, when time comes, and I think, maybe some 2L-bottles may be worth a try.... I must find some, that do not require a lot of re-shaping, though - I'm a very impatient modeler....