A pity you didn’t participate, but I understand!
I know you’re work on this project for many months. It is difficult to do large projects and keep the interest in them. I think your nearly there. Texturing is hard to do. Making it more ‘natural’ takes a lot of time.
You model is beautiful, on scale and with a lot of tiny details. The next step is to make it less artificial and more natural. Keep us posted!
Yeah, the scale was a real challenge. I’ve restarted the project twice because of it and still couldn’t get it right. Doing large vehicles without a clear plan is really hard. Also, some details that I spent a bunch of time on went largely unnoticed because they got dwarfed by the scale of other things like the balloon… I think a smaller vehicle where you could really show off the details was the best way to go about this. @Joey_Cuevas got the right idea.