I'm new to Reddit, and not certain I have done the posting process correctly. I decided to build a Graf Zeppelin because airships are cool and the GZ was the biggest achiever of the lot. The original was 776' X 100' making scaling a breeze. I wanted to keep it under four feet. 1/198 scale, 47" X 6.250" Even at that size, the details are small. The engine gondolas are 7/16" long. I used a 3 6" aluminum tube for the spine with lengths of dowel in each end. The spacers between the frames insure the correct spacing and that they are parallel. The nose ribs are laminated over a form with four layers of 1/16" strips. the original had intermediate ribs between the main ones. I left them out because things got a bit crowded. The stringers, 1/4" X 1 /8" , extend 1/8" beyond the frames to hold the covering clear of the frames. I beveled the top of the stringers to an edge to get a nice crease in the covering and not look like a stick of balsa. Weight isn't a factor with display models, so I paint the framework with acrylic. It adds a great deal of strength to the parts and glue joints. It fills the pores and raises the grain so that a little sanding makes for a smoother covering job. I used Eze Dope on the tissue. Eventually, it will hand from the ceiling in my son's classroom where students will wonder if LZ stands for Led Zeppelin. (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin #127.) I just finished a two year kitchen addition project and am looking forward to building a few airplanes. Easier on my back. Just finished a Dumas Gee Bee R1. I'm nearly done with a Vintage Fairey Swordfish. I'm also to the final assembly of a Guillow's B-17. I'm converting it to an E of the 13th AAF, 5th BG, 28th BS, that my dad, a USNR PBY pilot with VP-12 flew on a 9.1 hour patrol mission out of Fiji, 2/12/1943 because he wanted to give one a try. Easy to fly, noisy as hell. Also in the line are a Taube, a P-26, and my second build of a Guillow's PBY.