Revell LZ 129 Hindenburg in 1/720 scale

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• published: 08 Mar 2015
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The history of aviation during the 1930´s is highly interesting, great achievements were made and big accidents happened. I felt i should build a model related to this era. I built this model of the most iconic airship for the subscriber modelling contest hosted by Tactical Jackalope. The kit of the Hindenburg is pretty good, there are only 37 parts to assemble. I added the riggin on the tail on my own using stretched plastic sprue. Acrylic colours from Revell were used for painting the model. A light oil paint wash accentuated the details and filtered the surface of the airship. LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a large German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. It was designed and built by the Zeppelin Company (Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH) on the shores of Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen and was operated by the German Zeppelin Airline Company (Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei). The airship flew from March 1936 until it was destroyed by fire 14 months later on May 6, 1937, at the end of the first North American transatlantic journey of its second season of service. Thirty-six people died in the accident, which occurred while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. This was the last of the great airship disasters; it was preceded by the crashes of the British R38 in 1921 (44 dead), the US airship Roma in 1922 (34 dead), the French Dixmude in 1923 (52 dead), the British R101 in 1930 (48 dead), and the USS Akron in 1933 (73 dead). Hindenburg was named after the late Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany from 1925 until his death in 1934. (Wikipedia) I used music from the YouTube audio library for this video. I don´t own the rights for the video clips in this video.