Turret interior
19 Jul
Last post, I showed you how I made the observation turret on the airship Diabolus. Now I’ll show you the interior.
I wanted to give the turret enough interior detail that if someone looked inside, there would be something that made sense, not just darkness or the side of the airship underneath. I had some pieces of scrap plastic that looked like the caps off spray paint cans and as luck would have it, their diameters matched the diameter of the plastic caps that I made the turret “windows” out of. I then found a couple of photos of submarine interiors and Photoshopped them together, then printed the pieces and applied them to the inside of the painted caps. Below I show a cheap Army man I cleaned up and then detailed.
Inexpensive army man
Detailed and placed within the painted cap.
Detailed crewman
And now with the turret “glass” in place…
Turret glass in place
A different view shows the detail a little better.
Different angle
The next step is to add the turrets to the sides of steampunk zeppelin, Diabolus. Do you have ideas for how windows could be added?