This is a Lee-class scout airship from the tabletop miniature wargame "Dystopian Wars". (It's the only tabletop wargame that I actually play). This particular airship belongs to the Federated States of America (FSA), the faction that I play in the game.
The Lee-class airship is a nice addition to my fleet. It carries rockets up front (you can see the red tips in the pictures), can deliver decent broadside attacks, and carries bombs behind the crew compartment (you can see the bomb bay doors open in the rear of the ship if you look closely enough). Also, because it is an aircraft, it can act as a spotter for the naval ships in my fleet to conduct indirect fire against targets that are out of their line of sight. The green tank at the rear of the airship (underneath) is the steam boiler, which drives the propulsion system (Dystopian Wars is a steampunk-themed game).
The model is made of resin, so it is very light weight. It looks much bigger in the pictures than it actually is; the total length is just under three inches, and it's only about 3/4 of an inch in diameter, which means those windows in the crew compartment are very, very small. I found myself having to use an old high school rifle-team tactic to paint the detail on this model: take a deep breath, exhale it completely, and then run the brush over whatever part I was painting in the 5-10 seconds before I had to take my next breath (this makes your body very still, since you are not holding a bunch of air in your chest). Most of the detailed parts of the airship are much smaller than the paintbrush I was using, so it was a little tricky. Thankfully, it's all one piece (other than the stand, which is not glued to the model); all I had to do was paint it. However, for its small size, it has a great amount of detail.
Comments are always welcome; enjoy the pictures!
You are quite an artist! Thanks for the tip about steadiness - I think I'll find that useful at some point, even though I don't plan to make a model of an airship :)
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