plying the aether
Oddly enough, I do have a few hobbies apart from scribbling on this weblog and going out and perforating paper... And below, you will find a few images of an example thereof:
(All of the images can be clicked upon for a giganto version... and, in retrospect, I should have used a larger image for the backgrounds of the first two and last, and 3 and 4 should have stars in the background somewhere...)
I present you with the USS Serapis... at least, the steampunk version. Yes, it is an exoatmospheric vehicle... but also designed to navigate the waters of whatever planet it happens to set down on (especially considering its design precludes it from landing on solid ground). That also adequately explains why its ventral side is... well... completely unarmed. Details. Speaking of armaments, she sports a single-mounted heavy cannon fore and aft, a twin-mounted light cannon forward, and port and starboard gatlings (on the drive sponsons). As for how that drive mechanism works... uh, I have no idea? Aether turbines, maybe? It is a steampunk spaceship - gimme a break.
Anywise, this is my first venture into this brass and steam (hence the rather large boiler-looking contraption in the aft section) world... Not my best work, but it was distracting for a time.
A lot more of my work (some of it quite old) can be found here.
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Cool! What did you use to generate the landscape below? I used to do a fair amount of 3D playtime when I was doing UI design stuff, back when I had a job, back when Alias only ran on something like a main server and before Linus had Unix running smoothly...
I yoinked an image or two from NASA's archives. Supposedly, that is some portion fo the Earth, though I will be buggered if I can figure out which corner.