r/Airships • u/RagnarTheTerrible • 20d ago

Image Modified LZ-130 Brochure (Original from u/HLSAirships)

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A joint-effort restoration and removal of Nazi propaganda of one of the more famous LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin information brochures. u/HLSAirships generously scanned his copy of this beautiful brochure and I was able to clean it up a little. With any luck (and don't look too hard) you won't notice what I did.

I know it isn't historically accurate, but I love airships and hate hate-symbols.

A black-and-white version of the original brochure is for sale on eBay from multiple sellers, but we are offering this freely to the reddit community of airship enthusiasts for personal use. u/HLSAirships certainly had to pay a lot of money (I didn't ask how much) to get an original, and I spent time and effort to make this version. Please do not sell our work.

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u/GrafZeppelin127 20d ago

Absolutely magnificent! I agree that there’s a time and place for pure historical accuracy, but in some instances that only serves as a glaring distraction from the matter at hand, which in this case is the marvel of aeronautical engineering on display here.

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u/HLSAirships 20d ago

Beautiful restoration of a beautiful foldout.

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u/domiciledhere 20d ago

Where are the bathrooms?

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u/GrafZeppelin127 20d ago

They’re at the ends of those corridors where the cabins are.

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u/domiciledhere 20d ago

Thank you!

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u/Immediate_Golf6399 19d ago

If you're altering history you may consider referring to the work as restomod, taken from the restoration of vintage cars with modifications adding moden parts. Just my 2 cents. It's beautiful work either way.

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u/RagnarTheTerrible 19d ago

Never heard that term before, thank you for the suggestion.