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[Weaver]

I've got two hulls made from a plastic wine glass and another cup. I glued them together end to end and sawed them in half. Something else I should get on with.

Good point. When you look at McQue hulls, they're only superfically boat-like. You could easiy make them from something else.

On a kinda related point, I've had a project for a 1/72nd steampunk airship in mind for a long time, but how to build the envelope has always been the sticking point. One thing that occured to me was two big plastic drinks bottles stuck together base-to-base, with the front one's neck cut off and replaced by a shallow cone of some kind, and the back one's left on as the basis for tail fins. You could them glue strips of paper over it lengthways to give the faceted look of a real early airship. Of course it would still be too small for the payload but most fantasy/steampunk airships are.

Any attempt to model  an airship, zeppelin or other dirigible is to be highly applauded!   May I offer encouragement to attempt this task!

If you do the 2L bottle idea you could use 1/72 bits, like from the PT-109 kit, or, if you want turrets, Airfix still does their 1/72 tanks - even their figures of that scale can be modified.  When I had a hard time finding pilot figures for my builds, many a plastic soldier was pressed into service, often after radical surgery to make them look more fitted to their new roles. 

Oh I've got all the figures and gubbins for the gondola: Airfix steam engine & Victorian soldiers and sailors with Gatling and Gardner guns...   The idea is that it's the earliest iteration of the side-firing gunship idea.

[scooter]

I've got two hulls made from a plastic wine glass and another cup. I glued them together end to end and sawed them in half. Something else I should get on with.

Good point. When you look at McQue hulls, they're only superfically boat-like. You could easiy make them from something else.

On a kinda related point, I've had a project for a 1/72nd steampunk airship in mind for a long time, but how to build the envelope has always been the sticking point. One thing that occured to me was two big plastic drinks bottles stuck together base-to-base, with the front one's neck cut off and replaced by a shallow cone of some kind, and the back one's left on as the basis for tail fins. You could them glue strips of paper over it lengthways to give the faceted look of a real early airship. Of course it would still be too small for the payload but most fantasy/steampunk airships are.

Any attempt to model  an airship, zeppelin or other dirigible is to be highly applauded!   May I offer encouragement to attempt this task!

If you do the 2L bottle idea you could use 1/72 bits, like from the PT-109 kit, or, if you want turrets, Airfix still does their 1/72 tanks - even their figures of that scale can be modified.  When I had a hard time finding pilot figures for my builds, many a plastic soldier was pressed into service, often after radical surgery to make them look more fitted to their new roles. 

Oh I've got all the figures and gubbins for the gondola: Airfix steam engine & Victorian soldiers and sailors with Gatling and Gardner guns...   The idea is that it's the earliest iteration of the side-firing gunship idea.

That'll give those bloody Boers a what for, eh?

[Weaver]

I've got two hulls made from a plastic wine glass and another cup. I glued them together end to end and sawed them in half. Something else I should get on with.

Good point. When you look at McQue hulls, they're only superfically boat-like. You could easiy make them from something else.

On a kinda related point, I've had a project for a 1/72nd steampunk airship in mind for a long time, but how to build the envelope has always been the sticking point. One thing that occured to me was two big plastic drinks bottles stuck together base-to-base, with the front one's neck cut off and replaced by a shallow cone of some kind, and the back one's left on as the basis for tail fins. You could them glue strips of paper over it lengthways to give the faceted look of a real early airship. Of course it would still be too small for the payload but most fantasy/steampunk airships are.

Any attempt to model  an airship, zeppelin or other dirigible is to be highly applauded!   May I offer encouragement to attempt this task!

If you do the 2L bottle idea you could use 1/72 bits, like from the PT-109 kit, or, if you want turrets, Airfix still does their 1/72 tanks - even their figures of that scale can be modified.  When I had a hard time finding pilot figures for my builds, many a plastic soldier was pressed into service, often after radical surgery to make them look more fitted to their new roles. 

Oh I've got all the figures and gubbins for the gondola: Airfix steam engine & Victorian soldiers and sailors with Gatling and Gardner guns...   The idea is that it's the earliest iteration of the side-firing gunship idea.

That'll give those bloody Boers a what for, eh?

Or those bloody Zulus, but I don't think I'd get away with that diorama these days...