Made some more progress on the Zeppelin over the weekend...
In the first picture below, I painted the main body "aluminum", then (after it dried) taped over random sections and painted over everything with "silver". The intent here was to give the airship some variation in the skin color for a "constructed" look - allowing different sections of skin to glint differently in the splendor of basement lighting. The results are in the second picture below:
I also glued small LEDs in place in the airship fins w/goop (man, goop is the bets stuff ever!). I installed maker lights on three fins as discussed in an earlier post (green to starboard, red to port, and blinking white center)
The main body of the gondola in silver
I used a set of GG-1 decals to detail the body of the airship and the gondola. Some red letter decals I had on hand proved useful for the name. ...I debated on what to call this thing, and was actively cutting out letters to name it "Astra" when I changed my mind. "Jupiter" has the advantage of sounding big, sounding like it belongs to a group of ships, and providing another pop culture reference on the layout. So "Jupiter" it is!
Behold below the lustrous Loewy-like livery of the PRR's second Planet Class Regional Airship - The 156 ft Jupiter:
