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Thanks Kushan, for your kind comments. Regarding the replacing vac-forms part of the conversation, you were lucky that Lady Martian was using the blurglecruncheon at the time. Do away with vac-forms? I have never been so horrified by such a suggestion! Seriously though, the display is a labour of love and I was humbled by the number of Britmodellers who stopped by to enjoy it. Martian 👽

Cheers CC Agamemnon will be getting started after Telford and I would like to have her ready for SMW 2026. Martian 👽

Just caught up with this Bill, lovely work. However, you do of course realise that you have practically guaranteed that as soon as you have finished it, someone will release akit of one? Mystic Martian 👽

Some pictures failed to post so here they are, including the one showing the difference in size between the M and P Class Zeppelins. Martian 👽

Thanks Whofan. I will probably have about twenty Zepps at the show. I now have more that I can display at any one time soI now have to decide which ones to leave behind for any given show. Still, it's a nice problem to have. Martian 👽

Just finished; my Nordenfelt1 submarine. More pictures in Ready for Inspection. Martian 👽

Just finished this afternoon, my1/350 rendition of the Army Zeppelin LZ.85, shot down over the Vadar Marshes, near Salonika by HMS Agamemnon 5th May 1916. All the crew survived. More pictures in Ready for Inspeection. Martian 👽

Completed this afternoon; my1/350 P Class Zeppelin LZ.85. It is planned to build the Hobby Boss 1/350 kit of HMS Agamemnon, the ship that shot the Zeppelin down, to display alongside it. It will make for a good illustration as to just how large these airships were. Martian 👽

I was putting the newly completed KZ.85 away this afternoon and was struck by the difference in size between the M and P class ships: Martian 👽

Thanks Pete, I wish I had had a bit longer to work on this one but, being so important a part of the story, the type has been absent for too long from the display so I had to push on much quicker than I would have liked. Thanks Davey. Why not have a bash at one? Thanks Loren, I really had my heart set on adding this one to my collection. Thanks Janner. Cheers Stuart. I'm glad you like it. Martian 👽

Thanks for the like and the suggestion. There are two problems with the Idea though. Though it would work well for post WW1 German civil Zeppelins or British or US airships as they used mooring masts, Great war Zeppelins did not use them, descending to ground level, being taken in hand by the landing party and then walked into its shed. The second issue is that the model is part of a display of Zeppelins and has to be mounted in such a way was to be robust enough to withstand being carted around the country. Martian 👽

Excellent effort! Impressed of Mars👽

Thanks Roy. Yes that is indeed a couple of machine guns you see. Crew members would take it in turns to man the guns. They were, however, forbidden to fire the guns whilst the airship was climbing above pressure height, for fear that the muzzle flash from the guns ignite hydrogen that was venting from the gas cells. Martian 👽

Just completed in time for Telford, The M2 Class Zeppelin LZ.37. brought down by Flight Sub-Lieutenant Reginald Warneford over Ghent on 7th June 1915. Model is from a privately commissioned kit from the Dorset Print Man and has had many details scratch nuilt. Martian 👽

Apart from a brief interlude at Melchett Towers for refreshing and much needed out of silliness and where I narrowly survived a gas attack from the Hound of the Melchetts (She guffed about two inches from my nostrils)* nearly all of the past few weeks have been give over to making sure that the M2 Class Zeppelin kit I commissioned would be finished in goodtime for Telford. I replaced all the struts and outriggers with soldered Albion Alloys brass rod of different diameters, fabricated new tail surfaces from 30 'thou plastic card , scratch built engines for the open gondolas of the type and rigged the model with 0.1mmAlbion Alloys nickel silver rod. So, without further ado, I give you Oberleutnant Otto von der Hagen's Zeppelin L.37. More pictures will be appearing imminently in Ready For Inspection. Thanks for looking. Martian 👽 * @general melchett just laughed and queried the source of the stench until I pointed out that it wasn't me and that the was the only other carbon based life form in the room. There was, however much concern in the village that Baldrick's pants had escaped again or that the General's cooking had gone AWOL so evil was the whiff. emanating from Melchett Towers. The local airbases went on full chemical and biological alert and, as a precaution, Porton Down were asked to despatch decontamination teams.