My hat is off to you Lou. You have way more patience than I do. With missing parts and electronics that are a sad joke I would have boxed it all up and shelved it. 👍👍
Hi Lou, first - let me say that I really enjoy your uploads! It's my Saturday morning routine to watch your weekly videos:) So thank you very much! Anyhow about the Kirov Airship - it is indeed a soviet unit from Westwood's real-time strategy game "Red Alert 2" from the year 2000 that was part of an alternative reality of the command and conquer series. The plot (back from the first red alert game back in 1996) is that in 1946 Albert Einstein went back in time to 1924 and killed a young Austrian dude with a short mustache and a tight black hairdue... changing the history so nowadays the soviets are kicking and stronger than in our timeline. And the Kirov airship was one of the game's strongest unit. Here is the trailer of the game I found on RUclips. You can see the first glimps of the airship at 1:11 in a cut-scene video, and an actual gameplay of it starting from 1:37. Oh and indeed - the original color was a golden-mustard one:) ruclips.net/video/wpTJlayj1mU/видео.html
Hi Lou...Its really a great kit...has some head scratching here and there...sorry that yours is missing parts 🤥FYI Cultman carries all the red alert kits and the new ones coming out.
Lighter than Airships are divided in two types; Ridgid Airships (Zeppelin, internal structure and separate internal gas bags) and Blimps (Goodyear Blimp, basically a balloon). The model is a Ridgid airship.
Hi Lou, You might not want to apply your source directly to the LED's because it looks like the current limiting resistor(s) are on the board. The LED's won't last too long without the current limiting. If you need help figuring out the proper resistance for whatever power source you decide to use, Let me know. Sorry it is turning into a headache..
Wow! What an ambitious model design! Lights! Motors! Switches! Maybe too ambitious. Seems that maybe the company that made it couldn't quite live up to their aspirations. If anyone can make a silk purse out of this sow's ear, it would be you, Sir! I look forward to your plans to redeem this kit!
My thoughts would be (1) Since it's not a Soviet berigible, fill in all the holes for those markings. (In my opinion that red classes with the blue, and the black gondola is too bare. I know your not done). (2) Figure out the lighting (forget whats' there, do what you want to the lighting, such as in what colors for what purpose?). (3) Maybe a small remote cont. board to control the electrical? (4) Power it all with 5V. (5) Hang it from the ceiling on a swivel, so it can go around in circles when power is applied. (6) Make lemonade of this sour lemon, and have fun. Loved the video as always, don't give up, keep it up.😅
Hi Lou. The one word that kept going round my head while watching this video was "lemonade"! This is really odd as Border Models do some decent military kits but right from the start this rang alarm bells for me. It is very different from other Border kits that I have seen which makes me wonder if it is actually rebadged from another (less professional) manufacturer. The 1/n scale leads me to believe that the 'n' was just a placeholder in the box art that was never replaced with the correct number. The reason that the LED's are all red becomes apparent - reds can be run directly off 3V so saving the cost of a power board and resistors. Also, they can use 3V motors directly. The QC obviously isn't up to Border Models' usual standard with an entire frame missing, which also indicates a bought-in kit. So, on balance, do you think the inclusion of a lighting, wiring and motor kit was a plus or a minus? Apparently the EU version of this kit doesn't include the wiring kit, possibly because it doesn't meet EU standards. The blue paint you found looks lovely - almost identical to the "shark fin blue" I used on my Spectrum SPV. Let's hope you can make something out of this dog's breakfast (good luck getting replacement parts!), but if you bin it and start something new next week I'm sure we will all understand. It would just be a rather expensive kit in the bin! 😵💫
In your place I would repurpose it as a Steampunk Airship Pirate vessel (see: the band Abney Park). The hammer and sickle logos can be filled in and covered with the Jolly Roger, and the rest of the model can be left more or less as is, of course you will still have to scratchbuild the remainder of the base. The wiring looks like it went through four or five revisions until someone said “just ship it” but the illustrations were never updated to whatever the final revision was. I’m with you on chucking what you were given and doing a redesign. It won’t be that complicated what with no blinkers. Pretty expensive for what was in the box but I have faith in you. You can make something beautiful out of it, Lou.
Still looks like a cool blimp. If you can get past the funky wiring crap, weather it up, I think it would look pretty sweet. New subscriber! Love all your Star Trek collection in the background!!
RA2 was such a fun game - played it to death - and again recently when it was revamped. The countries were very cartoon-ish and Ray Wise as the President was brilliant casting although the Agent Tania character is more than annoying. But what other game has metal spiders, mind controlled quid and Flying Saucers and Einstein prism tanks. Looking forward to getting some of the kits in this range and hope they produce ones for all the vehicles
Lou, I have this kit (as a member of the IPMS CoMMiES it just seemed natural). However, I have no electronic skills so if interested I can send you the A frame you are missing so you can finish it up or maybe the whole kit. Just let me know.
Yep, we've all run into trouble kits like this Lou, so we understand. Like that you are willing to show that not all kits are a "tiptoe through the tulips" (just dated myself didn't?). Border Models are usually military vehicle and aircraft based kits and pretty good ones. They don't come with alot of motors or lights in them. The 1/35 Akagi deck kit comes with a light but it looks kind of "off" when looking at the instructions (haven't built it yet). Think maybe they need to work out their electronic engineering bugs. Otherwise their kits are buetifull. This is their first foreway into Sci-Fi kits that I know of anyway, so maybe they rushed it into production. There's also a butt ugly tank in this series.
It looks like some sort of "Steampunk" fantasy aircraft. Steampunk is a fantasy sub-genre where you have adventures in an alternate world where the Victorian/Edwardian era had more advanced technology than what we see in "real" history. An example would be the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" series. A real lighter than air ship has to have an immense gas-bag to contain the hydrogen or helium lifting element, & the payload is relatively small. A steampunk airship is just like a ship-at-sea, only it flies, and it can carry heavy guns in gun turrets. "Kirov" would refer to Sergei Kirov, who was the Communist Party leader of Leningrad who was assassinated back in the mid-1930's.
If you can't kitbash the missing parts, Jadlam Racing Models here in the UK as 4 kits available, priced at £79.95, which is an expensive option, have to admit that by now, I would have thrown it out with the trash, I don't have your patience!
cont. A successor to "Steampunk" would be "Dieselpunk", which is the same as steampunk, only it is set in the 1920's or '30's. Imagine Prohibition era gangsters using interplanetary spaceships to smuggle bootleg hootch into the USA in violation of the Volstead Act! The Skylark of Space, by E.E. "Doc" Smith, Ph.D. (1928) might be the classic example of dieselpunk science fiction. You have to really, really, suspend your disbelief in order to enjoy this stuff, but I do!
Lou ,"BORDER MODELS!!!" be very careful on how you interpret the instructions , just ask anyone doing there 1/32 scale Lancaster it is a night mare to interpret the instructions .
Lighting - Chinese engineering LOL That's a good size kit when assembled - I like the silver / blue you used on the body - that's a perfect color for that subject. I'm not sure if I would just rewire the whole thing myself or try and sort out the kit stuff. But it's a cool looking kit either way 👍
My hat is off to you Lou. You have way more patience than I do. With missing parts and electronics that are a sad joke I would have boxed it all up and shelved it. 👍👍
Hi Lou, first - let me say that I really enjoy your uploads! It's my Saturday morning routine to watch your weekly videos:) So thank you very much! Anyhow about the Kirov Airship - it is indeed a soviet unit from Westwood's real-time strategy game "Red Alert 2" from the year 2000 that was part of an alternative reality of the command and conquer series. The plot (back from the first red alert game back in 1996) is that in 1946 Albert Einstein went back in time to 1924 and killed a young Austrian dude with a short mustache and a tight black hairdue... changing the history so nowadays the soviets are kicking and stronger than in our timeline. And the Kirov airship was one of the game's strongest unit. Here is the trailer of the game I found on RUclips. You can see the first glimps of the airship at 1:11 in a cut-scene video, and an actual gameplay of it starting from 1:37. Oh and indeed - the original color was a golden-mustard one:) ruclips.net/video/wpTJlayj1mU/видео.html
Hi Lou...Its really a great kit...has some head scratching here and there...sorry that yours is missing parts 🤥FYI Cultman carries all the red alert kits and the new ones coming out.
Lou, I have been watching for years, but the most engaged I have felt is when you said, "I prefer my Nazis be fictional."
Yeah, but they aren't fictional anymore, are they...
They haven't been fictional since the 1930s. WTF are you talking about?
Well that was fun! I do hope you anr not waiting too long for the other kit to turn up! And fingers crossed that it has ALL the parts!
Lighter than Airships are divided in two types; Ridgid Airships (Zeppelin, internal structure and separate internal gas bags) and Blimps (Goodyear Blimp, basically a balloon). The model is a Ridgid airship.
Hi Lou, You might not want to apply your source directly to the LED's because it looks like the current limiting resistor(s) are on the board. The LED's won't last too long without the current limiting. If you need help figuring out the proper resistance for whatever power source you decide to use, Let me know. Sorry it is turning into a headache..
I loved this game 30 years ago Lou. I played thee first version Command and Conquer: Red Alert
I'm wondering if they put the motors on a separate set of batteries because they created line noise that made the LED's flicker.
Wow! What an ambitious model design! Lights! Motors! Switches! Maybe too ambitious. Seems that maybe the company that made it couldn't quite live up to their aspirations. If anyone can make a silk purse out of this sow's ear, it would be you, Sir! I look forward to your plans to redeem this kit!
Be honest, how long did you spend looking for the music cue? I’m chugging vodka watching this build no thanks to you!
about 5 minutes.
Thank you. I've been on the fence with this one. I'm now off the fence I'll move on to something else.
Quite funny......😊
I have this kit...... Glad I have a pro to show me all the problems with it before I start. We wil see how it goes.
Found that Squadron and Andy's Hobby Headquarters both say they have this kit in stock. Great progress so far.
My thoughts would be (1) Since it's not a Soviet berigible, fill in all the holes for those markings. (In my opinion that red classes with the blue, and the black gondola is too bare. I know your not done). (2) Figure out the lighting (forget whats' there, do what you want to the lighting, such as in what colors for what purpose?). (3) Maybe a small remote cont. board to control the electrical? (4) Power it all with 5V. (5) Hang it from the ceiling on a swivel, so it can go around in circles when power is applied. (6) Make lemonade of this sour lemon, and have fun. Loved the video as always, don't give up, keep it up.😅
Hi Lou. The one word that kept going round my head while watching this video was "lemonade"! This is really odd as Border Models do some decent military kits but right from the start this rang alarm bells for me. It is very different from other Border kits that I have seen which makes me wonder if it is actually rebadged from another (less professional) manufacturer. The 1/n scale leads me to believe that the 'n' was just a placeholder in the box art that was never replaced with the correct number. The reason that the LED's are all red becomes apparent - reds can be run directly off 3V so saving the cost of a power board and resistors. Also, they can use 3V motors directly. The QC obviously isn't up to Border Models' usual standard with an entire frame missing, which also indicates a bought-in kit. So, on balance, do you think the inclusion of a lighting, wiring and motor kit was a plus or a minus? Apparently the EU version of this kit doesn't include the wiring kit, possibly because it doesn't meet EU standards. The blue paint you found looks lovely - almost identical to the "shark fin blue" I used on my Spectrum SPV. Let's hope you can make something out of this dog's breakfast (good luck getting replacement parts!), but if you bin it and start something new next week I'm sure we will all understand. It would just be a rather expensive kit in the bin! 😵💫
In your place I would repurpose it as a Steampunk Airship Pirate vessel (see: the band Abney Park). The hammer and sickle logos can be filled in and covered with the Jolly Roger, and the rest of the model can be left more or less as is, of course you will still have to scratchbuild the remainder of the base.
The wiring looks like it went through four or five revisions until someone said “just ship it” but the illustrations were never updated to whatever the final revision was. I’m with you on chucking what you were given and doing a redesign. It won’t be that complicated what with no blinkers.
Pretty expensive for what was in the box but I have faith in you. You can make something beautiful out of it, Lou.
You know, if you had given it red lips, you’d have a joker fish themed airship. Looks great.
As you mentioned the saucer at the beginning, I thought you might turn this in to a Hydra blimp.
I considered buying that kit when it came out last year. Boy, did I dodge a bullet.
Omg from Red Alert 2! Where did you find that??
With the motors, it's like a do-it-yourself desk fan.
😅😅😅
Still looks like a cool blimp. If you can get past the funky wiring crap, weather it up, I think it would look pretty sweet. New subscriber! Love all your Star Trek collection in the background!!
Lou + looks like your building the LED ZEPPELIN ha ha ha 😂😂😅😅😊😅
It's from an old real time strategy game from the late 1990's - Red Alert 2.
RA2 was such a fun game - played it to death - and again recently when it was revamped. The countries were very cartoon-ish and Ray Wise as the President was brilliant casting although the Agent Tania character is more than annoying. But what other game has metal spiders, mind controlled quid and Flying Saucers and Einstein prism tanks.
Looking forward to getting some of the kits in this range and hope they produce ones for all the vehicles
Hope you can make lemonade from this lemon of a kit. Good luck Lou.
Lou: "Here I have the Starsky & hutch Gran Torino! I don't like the red and white. I'm gonna paint it black and yellow."
I dunno. Good for him. I have watched Lou make these kits for years and years, and he rarely colors outside the lines, so to speak. So this is fine.
Lou, I have this kit (as a member of the IPMS CoMMiES it just seemed natural). However, I have no electronic skills so if interested I can send you the A frame you are missing so you can finish it up or maybe the whole kit. Just let me know.
i've got another one coming from AliExpress. we'll see how long it takes to get here
Am guessing, but "N-scale" probably refers to railway modeller "N-Gauge", which is 1/160th in proper numbers.
Looks like a very awesome kit. Too bad they shorted your parts.
With your special set of skills, Mrs Dalmaso, could you not create printed replacements for frame A.
Mrs.????no , I have no 3d skills other than printing already designed parts
Lou couldn't you 3D print the missing parts!?
Nyet , Nyet Comrade Louski
Yep, we've all run into trouble kits like this Lou, so we understand. Like that you are willing to show that not all kits are a "tiptoe through the tulips" (just dated myself didn't?).
Border Models are usually military vehicle and aircraft based kits and pretty good ones. They don't come with alot of motors or lights in them. The 1/35 Akagi deck kit comes with a light but it looks kind of "off" when looking at the instructions (haven't built it yet). Think maybe they need to work out their electronic engineering bugs. Otherwise their kits are buetifull. This is their first foreway into Sci-Fi kits that I know of anyway, so maybe they rushed it into production. There's also a butt ugly tank in this series.
It looks like some sort of "Steampunk" fantasy aircraft. Steampunk is a fantasy sub-genre where you have adventures in an alternate world where the Victorian/Edwardian era had more advanced technology than what we see in "real" history. An example would be the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" series. A real lighter than air ship has to have an immense gas-bag to contain the hydrogen or helium lifting element, & the payload is relatively small. A steampunk airship is just like a ship-at-sea, only it flies, and it can carry heavy guns in gun turrets. "Kirov" would refer to Sergei Kirov, who was the Communist Party leader of Leningrad who was assassinated back in the mid-1930's.
The kit looks fun to build if it was missing anything and the electric stuff wasn’t a mess
Wait'll you get a load of the "One Piece" sailing ships!
Good news? There is one of these blimps still plastic wrapped on the shelf at King's Hobby in Austin TX. Bad news? they only want $69 for it.
i've got one coming from AliExpress i think it was around 50 bucks
This airship reminds me of Bullet Bill from the Mario Brothers video games. The face is very similar.
If you can't kitbash the missing parts, Jadlam Racing Models here in the UK as 4 kits available, priced at £79.95, which is an expensive option, have to admit that by now, I would have thrown it out with the trash, I don't have your patience!
ive got another on order from ali express
It is a fictional alternative universe kit, no need to get upset Lou, odd colors make it look nothing like the in game one
the game is 'Command & Conquer Red Alert 2'.
Oh bummer.
Instead of using the hammer and sickle, maybe you could paint a simple roundel on the side like what British fighter planes had during WWI and WWII.
From the game Command and Conquer (Red Alert 2) wiki.
cont. A successor to "Steampunk" would be "Dieselpunk", which is the same as steampunk, only it is set in the 1920's or '30's. Imagine Prohibition era gangsters using interplanetary spaceships to smuggle bootleg hootch into the USA in violation of the Volstead Act! The Skylark of Space, by E.E. "Doc" Smith, Ph.D. (1928) might be the classic example of dieselpunk science fiction. You have to really, really, suspend your disbelief in order to enjoy this stuff, but I do!
Lou ,"BORDER MODELS!!!" be very careful on how you interpret the instructions , just ask anyone doing there 1/32 scale Lancaster it is a night mare to interpret the instructions .
Lighting - Chinese engineering LOL That's a good size kit when assembled - I like the silver / blue you used on the body - that's a perfect color for that subject. I'm not sure if I would just rewire the whole thing myself or try and sort out the kit stuff. But it's a cool looking kit either way 👍
Paint it in Ukranian colors Lou. LOL
This video is ruined by your political nonsense