Official Balloons, Blimps, Zeppelins and other Gasbags Painting Thread
Here's my Caquot type M observation balloon.
http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/att...5&d=1378552686
http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/att...4&d=1378552686
It's Shapeways WSF designed by Reduced Aircraft Factory.
Over to you Clipper! I'm looking forward to seeing them all.
Ian
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Official observation balloon painting thread
I just posted pictures on the March workbench site, but I thought it appropriate to start a thread here, too - I was surprised there wasn't one yet...or pehaps I missed it?!:p
This is the Nexus brown balloon, although it's been repainted based loosely on the photo posted under ReducedAircraftFactory's sandstone balloon thread on the Shapeways thread. I originally primed it in grey and then coated it with Vallejo's English Uniform (brown) color before I set to work with various brown to make it look like the photo. While it WAS somewhat tedious, I really like the result.:)
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Thanks for looking! I look forward to painting more balloons - I have a couple of AIM resin models I'm working on - I'll post results as they're finished.
All the best,
Matt
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AIM Parseval-Sigsfeld balloon
Here is an AIM 'sausage' that I finished for my good friend Jim (rhodie80). He wanted it nice and simple in light blue, so that's what he gets!:)
Vallejo paints were used throughout, and the decals are extras from one of the Herrn Oberst's Albatros sets.
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I have a second one I'm starting that I will do up as a varied striped version, similar to one someone else painted a while back; Mike (oldguy59) did up a nifty balloon card for him, so I'll eventually print that off to go with it. I'll post pics of it when it's finished.
As always, thanks for looking!
All the best,
Matt
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Another Parseval-Sigsfeld
Here's a side-on view of my Parseval-Sigsfeld balloon from AIM - when Jim(rhodie80) bought these for us, he printed off the striped 'card' from the files for me, so it's painted to match that file. I finished it at the beginning of June so it could make the journey to Origins - it was subsequently shot down in the "Sausages for Breakfast" scenario I ran on the Wednesday evening of Origins.
It was fun to paint and a bit easier than the earlier all blue one above - I chose to strip the ropes supplied with the kit to get a bit thinner cable line for the basket. I think I may replace those lines with some that are a bit thicker...as I'm not sure I like them this way - a bit too thin now for my tastes.
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As always, thanks for looking!:)
All the best,
Matt