| mbourgeois | 25 Dec 2008 8:56 p.m. PST |
Any idea where I could find one for use in aerial combat? I'm hoping to find something for gameplay that won't have an astronomical price and will be fairly durable. Thanks for your help. |
| Bob in Edmonton | 25 Dec 2008 9:12 p.m. PST |
Revell makes a 1:700 Hindenberg which (excepting the gondola) work well with 1:300 planes. Not sure if it is OOP. |
Tgerritsen  | 25 Dec 2008 9:15 p.m. PST |
Hawk models makes a 1/294 model of the Graf Zeppelin. It even lights up. |
| Pijlie | 26 Dec 2008 3:12 a.m. PST |
Look here link for a DIY airship. |
| Martin Rapier | 26 Dec 2008 4:12 a.m. PST |
I use the Revell Hindenberg, it looks big enough. |
| zippyfusenet | 26 Dec 2008 5:35 a.m. PST |
Have a look at the 1/300 MPC Postage Stamp Lanes Blimp: link |
| Gunbird | 26 Dec 2008 6:52 a.m. PST |
Lindberg makes a 1/300 US Navy blimp |
| Kirk Alderfer | 26 Dec 2008 9:04 a.m. PST |
If your close to a WalMart, you can find this in the toy section…its perfect picture |
| Matsuru Sami Kaze | 26 Dec 2008 5:28 p.m. PST |
A U-Boat shot a blimp out of the sky in the 40's. That's about the only action I know if with a blimp. Now you need a U-Boat. It's a good question. I'd like a Zep for my Crimson Sky a/c. |
| Allen57 | 26 Dec 2008 5:40 p.m. PST |
Im building for a game of US v. Japan in the 30s using 1/700 aircraft since no one seems to make them in 1/600 or 300. Akron and Macon are huge (about 18 inches long) even at this scale. About the only way I can think of using a dirigible is in a fashion similar to play with bomber flights where you leave the dirirgible as a fixed item in the center of the table and when it moves you instead move the aircraft in relation to it. In larger scales the things hardly fit on the table. Blimps dont work. A blimp is not a dirigible. |
| Kaoschallenged | 26 Dec 2008 11:33 p.m. PST |
There are paper models out there also :). Robert |
| Pyrate Captain | 28 Dec 2008 11:01 p.m. PST |
AMT made Hindenburg and Akron/Macon in 1/530th. They are a bit small but they are large 1930's airship frames, much large than their WW1 Zeppelin or Shut-lanze counterparts so the scale is not that far off. LZ-1 was considerably smaller than LZ-30, yet they both served in WW-1. You would have to make the gondola, machine gun positions on the top deck, engine nacelles, etc. they appear on Ebay from time to time and will cost you, but then, you only need one or so. The Captain |
| Zeppelfahrt | 01 Jan 2009 7:02 p.m. PST |
Try the Currell site below. Even though they're paper, the three available models are rubust enough for (gentle) gaming. Best of all, they're free, the only question being; how much time and patience do you have for construction and modification? To get proper results, you are looking at about 24 – 48 man hours if you have some experience with paper stuff. If you don't have this much time to invest, check Ebay and type in "Airship Models." It will lead you to a supplier (I think from the Phillipines)that has on-going "buy it now" offerings for several airship models. For gaming, I rest my airships on two Y shaped wire cradles that are mounted on an appropriately colored piece of flat wood. Since I use GASLIGHT rules, the base is used as my datum to measure "spin" and "speed." link |
| User7866 | 14 Jan 2009 2:32 a.m. PST |
PMI makes airship models in paper:
link
I bought an 1/350 Macon from them, but have not put it together yet.
Sorry. |
