Vintage Transportation: Viking Airship
The Viking Airship: “Coast Raiders in the Sky”. This is a concept I created blending classical aviation with the fantasy element of Viking mythos. The Viking longboat is suspended by a Zeppelin envelope and propelled by a crude propeller engine, flying over the Nordic landscape!
The big challenge of this whole project was building the red and white airship envelope, which went through numerous revisions and had several flaws. Building it consisted of an internal circular chain of hinge plates, which then had curved slopes over top of it to form the tube shape. I wanted the envelope to be much larger, but unfortunately the large size and weight made it extremely cumbersome which was difficult to balance on top of the ship. The current thinner envelope is simply suspended from two brown ladders on the sides, and has chains on the front and back for stability. After building the terrain, the final touch was adding floating clouds to mask the transparent pillars holding up the ship.
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