ATHENA - Steampunk Airship (107)

Hi all,

thank you for the positive feedback :)

@ Malevengion and Tuskar Schwarzhorn- thank you :)

Yes, I think it is time for the old lady to be finally completed. She survived 3 cats and began to think she was cursed.

Currently we are without cats - so what better time ? ;)

Well I decided to experiment a bit more with the already painted part. Trying to tell more of the "painters" story. So one understands what is exactly happening.

So I took the challenge of doing the Dencara Cloud Pattern with a brush.

While that dried I completed the damage of the upper story of the body.

Wow, that damage stuff IS time consuming.

So maybe more already painted elements?

I also started the blue ornamental flag on the observation deck.

I still need a good Latin phrase - so if you can spare one :)

To provide more context on the paint process, I also provided a strip of bare metal in front of the rust resilient paint.

Uff!
The base for the body damage done.

It starts to tell a story of its own.

But it took my quite some hours to get all the damage painted on her.

So how could I continue with the upper decks?

More damage?

I decided to take the easier route :)

The upper and command deck is already painted. She is returning to Xantium after a successful campaign in the south and we want her to look representable when she returns for her parade.

Of course the command deck with the officers as well as the landing platform where first visitors are arriving, must be spit-shining sharp, right?