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Old 01-06-2023, 06:08 PM
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Ever read the book by Nevil Shute - "Sliderule: the autobiography of an engineer"? People with long memories may remember Shute as a novelist in the 1950s but he was trained as an engineer. He was an assistant to Barnes Wallis in the construction of the R100 by Vickers. I remember his thoughts on the R101 were that aside from having to be lengthened due to the machinery being overweight the R101 had to be reskinned after it was found the original dope and fabric reacted with each other and crumbled. Shute was of the opinion that some of the original fabric had been missed and the skin split in the bad weather over France.

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I have not read the book. I'm heading out to Portland this week, will drop by Powell's Bookshop and see if I can find it.


I have the LZ45 (L13) printed out. 1/144 scale. Lots of sheets. Also the L-17 Sachsen, at 1/250 scale. Both look like great models. But first I need to finish up the airships from Currell.
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Old 01-09-2023, 01:55 PM
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Here is the Russian Giant airship. Semirigid, it only had one flight in real life. It must have been challenging to design all the parts for the lower keel pieces. All the parts fit together well, though. I cut out the panels that form the frame of the engine mounts. I also put together the mooring mast available at currell.net.
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Old 01-09-2023, 07:34 PM
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I have not read the book. I'm heading out to Portland this week, will drop by Powell's Bookshop and see if I can find it.
If you can't find Nevil Shute's book drop me a PM I may have it as a .epub.

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These are wonderful. The hangar is a great addition to the collection. Nicely done.
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Its been so long since I've been to Portland and Powell's.
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Old 01-28-2023, 11:19 PM
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The next airship build is the LZ-17 Sachsen, a free download from the Landships II website. Landships II. It’s scaled at 1/250 scale, so it’s over 24” long. Designed to be built up in separate body sections with end plates butt glued together, I chose to glue the fuselage sections together to form an envelope that slides over the internal formers. That allowed me to smooth all the seams better. I used presentation board to create the internal structure, as well as to reinforce the exterior fins. There are very thin structures to cut out to form the rudder and elevator framework, as well as the propeller assemblies.
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Old 01-29-2023, 06:54 AM
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Have you got the 1:200 Hindenberg model? This was a free model years ago - I squirrelled it - can organise a download if you want it.

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Thanks for the offer, CharlieC. I have Currell’s 1/700 and 1/400 scale Hindenburg, along with the Schreiber-Bogen 1/200 scale Hindenburg. Plus the Alan Rose version, what ever scale it is.

Here are some final photos of the L-17. By the way, Sachsen is the german name for Saxony, the area in Germany Northeast of Bavaria. The 1/250 scale makes her fit in well with my ship models.
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Old 01-29-2023, 09:51 AM
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So I guess I will have to build some Hindenburgs next.
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