WHFB Empire Airship - Test Flight

Edit: some outdoor photos -

Finished the balloon and added it to the top of the ship. It's fairly secure, but I may replace the mast with a wooden dowel that would run through the bottom of the ship to a movement platform.

The fins are made from card stock, and the netting is another old Lego find in a box of odds and ends. The flag on the top of the balloon is from the Demigryph set.

The rigging was modified by joining to sections to lengthen it to meet the netting. The joint between each section of the rigging are beads from Joann's.

The balloon was given a wash of Future floor wax mixed with Vallejo inks. I think I'll switch to the Future "magic dip" once the can of Minwax stain runs out. I like how fast the Future dries - about 15 minutes or so. It is also much easier to clean up - with water.

Tomorrow is a local Warhammer Fantasy Battles tournament at the FLGS - The Game Matrix. I'm using a mostly "human" Empire army. No Magic, Wizard, War Altar or Hurricanum. Taking two Witch Hunters though. There will be 5 games over the weekend, so much like the WAB GT earlier this year, but much closer to home.

DFS 230 Glider and a Gran Sasso Raider

This is a resin model that I put together awhile ago, but decided to weather it a bit; it was also an incentive to paint a lone "spare" Fallshirmjaeger as he'd look in Africa or Italy.

The glider kit, which I won off of ebay, is made by a German company called Karo-As Modellbau. It is 1:48 scale according to the box. Simple to put together and came with several versions of decal markings - except for the swastika which is illegal in Germany, I think. I got that decal from another source.

I refinished the cockpit glass which got "foggy" from the super glue. Thanks to the internet, I found out that this is a common problem with modelers and the solution was to carefully remove it and apply Future floor wax to it. This solved the problem and I re-glued it back on.

The figure is another Victory Force Miniatures model with Green Stuff added to the lower parts of the trouser legs to better simulate the bagginess of this type of tropical issue. You may notice a replica Luftwaffe Fallshirmjaeger badge to the rear of the figure.

A couple more views of the same figure; as I like how he ended up. I plan to order more and paint them up with the same type of gear - for Africa/Italy; or possibly a Gran Sasso scenario. Interestingly enough, I hope to get in on a game with the very scenario this Saturday at a game day held at the Museum of Flight up at Boeing Field.

The photo above shows how cramped it was in the glider. Supposedly it held 9 fully armed Fallshirmjaeger in addition to the pilot.