Zeppelin (Pic Heavy)

[gamer Mac]

eI think this may qualify as the greatest ever thing on the internet

you know, if you built another one you could have air-combat games in your garden

Not sure about that but thanks anyway.

By the time I finish this one I will be sick of zeppelins and will never want to see another one. Also my garden isn't big enough. My daughter’s rabbits, which own half the garden, may attack anything in their section and the vicious little buggers would rip this fragile build to scrap in seconds.

There is a german plane on board.
So it´s a german zeppelin. Commanded by someone with a monocle. Someone like Max von Schnackelsdorf - Zastrow!
Being a german zeppelin, commanded by Max von Schnackelsdorf - Zastrow, it´s on a mission to accomplish some diabolic / sinister plan for world domination and / or overthrowing democracy on a world wide scale.
Before the army, navy, airforce and/or the coast guard helped by a hero and a blonde busty sidekick can save the world, the zeppelin needs:
Floodlights!

Not sure who Max is ?
Is it a book, film comic?

  Why are you all determined to put me in a metntal home with the suggestion of fitting lights

Looking for a bit of help.
I built the basic structure of the tail and passed it on to my brother to finish as he had some good ideas about how to detail it (and he is better at that sort of thing than me ).
One of the things I suggested that would be in the tail of a real zeppelin would be the control gear for the tail fins and rudder. I thought it might make some interesting stuff to fight round. The problem we are having is trying to find a picture of what it may look like.
Can anybody help?
I was imagining some sort of winches and pulley’s

[Bugsda]

If there was a Nobel prize for modelling you'd be an odds on cert 

[dijit]

My google-fu turned up this:

Damage to the Graf Zeppelin's tail fins, if thats any help?

And this:


Though you can't really see a great deal from them admitedly.

[gamer Mac]

We had a little get together last night to discuss how we are going to run a game on the monster. It is really starting to look like a zeppelin when it is all joined together. This project has literary grown arms and legs during the build. With all the extra bits we have had to add it has grown from 4’ to an inch under 6’.



We have just about sorted out what is going into each space now and how the areas are going to affect the game.
I now have a good idea of what is left to do.
The biggest job is to cover the whole thing. You can just about see how it is going to be done in the first picture. Tin foil glued over the cereal box cardboard skin.















We worked out a few scenario ideas.
We have also worked out what figures we still need to paint. Busy couple of months ahead.

[Barry S]

Simply amazing 

[duhamel]

 Oh damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Malamute]

Colin, I am in continual awe of this build, everytime I see a new picture It just keeps moving up a gear in terms of bloody well everything. Totally magnificent and I absolutely cannot wait to see it in the flesh.

[Westfalia Chris]

I am afraid the Grotto may not be spacious enough to hold all that magnificence... 

[Frank]

Just WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blackwolf]

Bloody nice! You even have the Finemolds Porco Rosso Curtis,brilliant taste

[Dewbakuk]

Me PLAY!

[Tsune]

The most ambitious and marvellous board I have seen. Love all the details introduced and the general design.

All the adjectives told here to the project are well deserved.

[Silent Invader]

There might be bigger boards, there might be more detailed boards, there might be more heavily engineered boards BUT, surely, this zepellin MUST be the pinnacle for a combination of all three of these criteria.  Seriously, there cannot be a bigger, more detailed, more heavily engineered board.  Just, WOW.     

[OSHIROmodels]

Abso-bally-lutely amazing peice of work       

Seeing it together for the first time really does show what a fantastic peice of work this really is.

I think a nomination for a sticky would go down well 

cheers

James

[Haarken]

Absolutely magnificent! Just when you think you've got an idea of where the bar is set, you come on this forum and find out that once again someone has raised it even further beyond your reach. The attention to detail and the scale of the project is just amazing, if you don't mind me asking how many hours have you committed to this project and how much has it cost you so far? Keep up the great work. I can't wait to see it finished.

Haarken