Hi all
Please find attached the finished pics of my 1/72 Drachenballon. I say finished (this thing never wants to leave the workbench), the band around the drain valve has come loose at the edges. This will be an easy fix, I only noticed it while editing the pictures. Having discovered the best quality pictures i can take are in the garden, when the sun is out but not shining directly into the garden (and that does not happen often here) I will not be taking them again.
Build log can be found in the Scratch Build section along with a list of what I hope are the only other errors.
https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=3765.0In short the champions of this build are :
Cotton thread soaked in Superglue. This kept the load bearing rigging looking taught as in the archive pictures.
Insulating (dense) Foam. I could have made the balloon with papier mache, plunge molding or vacuforming but luckily I chose to use insulating foam which is so easy to shape and very forgiving to knocks.
I would also like to thank all the people who were patient enough to follow the build over such a long time and leave such nice comments.
Alan.
