Airship Gallery

[Sir Nikolas Vendigroth]

Post the pics of the airships you've built and rendered!

I'll post mine as soon as I move the files from Imageshack to Photobucket.

Plus, I've got an impressive one in the works. It'll be done in a while. Possibly a week.


Go on, post!

[Ottens]

If I may, shamefully, promote my own website, I have some airships (categorized as "zeppelins" actually) on display at my website.  None of my own I'm afraid---I wish I were as talented as the many artists whose work I feature there!  But perhaps they might serve as an inspiration to people whose artistic senses are better developed than me own? 

[Captain Brandsson]

No pictures of the ship in the forthcoming tale, yet, but the other day my four-and-a-half-year-old had to get five stitches on his lower lip due to crashing his first airship.
After the initial shock, pain and unpleasantness his response to the whole ordeal was simply (translated for your benefit):
"Can I have more balloons?  I didn't have enough."
Yes, I am a proud papa.

[neon_suntan]

After some help from the mighty Adeptus Mechanicus Harold, I made this image of the one and only HMS Ophelia shortly after she went rogue and became an Airship Pirate Vessel.

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[markf]

If I may, shamefully, promote my own website, I have some airships (categorized as "zeppelins" actually) on display at my website.  None of my own I'm afraid---I wish I were as talented as the many artists whose work I feature there!  But perhaps they might serve as an inspiration to people whose artistic senses are better developed than me own? 

Extraordinary website sir, I particularly enjoyed the airships.  markf

[Sir Nikolas Vendigroth]

My latest cruiser, the IFS Rosenrot. It's still in the shakedown phase, so no weapons have been installed, but this is, without a doubt, the single most powerful ship I've ever built in Gmod.

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The hull's so heavy, a double lifting envelope is needed.

And the IFS Hood, a light destroyer.

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[Duellist]

A minor tangent, for which I apologise, but perhaps relevant enough that I might be excused.  I notice that the accepted prefix appears to be IFS for a civilian airship, HMS for a Royal Naval airship, but I wonder if anyone can offer any source or precedent for this. 

I notice that the navy are a little funny about the HMS prefix, allowing 'stone ships' to be HMS, but requiring even submarines to be HM Submarine, at least on official paperwork.  I think Abney Park's HMS Ophelia was the first time I saw an airship with that prefix and IFS is a prefix I am not sure I had ever seen outside Arcanum before I came here.

That said, I do use the prefix myself in one of my pet projects; HMS Scylla and HMS Charybdis.  I keep meaning to render the HMS Scylla and HMS Charybdis in 3DS Max; a pair of pirate hunters designed to work in tandem.  (based on the idea that two smaller ships can easily out-flank one larger ship and get the all-important raking shots in)

[Josh of Vernian Process]

In all of the Steampunk stories I've ever done, I always used HMAS (His/Her Majesties Airship, and RAN (Royal Air Navy).

Of course that's just for British vessels. Colonial would be USAS and USAN.

A minor tangent, for which I apologise, but perhaps relevant enough that I might be excused.  I notice that the accepted prefix appears to be IFS for a civilian airship, HMS for a Royal Naval airship, but I wonder if anyone can offer any source or precedent for this. 

I notice that the navy are a little funny about the HMS prefix, allowing 'stone ships' to be HMS, but requiring even submarines to be HM Submarine, at least on official paperwork.  I think Abney Park's HMS Ophelia was the first time I saw an airship with that prefix and IFS is a prefix I am not sure I had ever seen outside Arcanum before I came here.

That said, I do use the prefix myself in one of my pet projects; HMS Scylla and HMS Charybdis.  I keep meaning to render the HMS Scylla and HMS Charybdis in 3DS Max; a pair of pirate hunters designed to work in tandem.  (based on the idea that two smaller ships can easily out-flank one larger ship and get the all-important raking shots in)

[Sir Nikolas Vendigroth]

I only use IFS in remembrance of the Zephyr...

It sort of grew from there, and the ships I build in Gmod aren't necessarily civilian.

[RadioC1ash]

Very cool, neon_suntan! While you are all at it, feel free to post your creations on my airship thread

[Miimno]

Already posted this somewhere else, but seemed an appropriate place to put a shot of the deck from an 'old world' airship.

Here's a view of Capt. Silas P. Morgan and First Lieutenant (Captain) Zorch who were kind enough to pause ever-so-briefly while I fiddled with the aperture and the flash powder.

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Note: We were tipped a bit to port, but all is well en route to our first destination in Metropolis.

[Sir Nikolas Vendigroth]

Just a normal ship, this time.

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Rather a lot of work went into that warship...

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Airship and a fortress....

[femonky]

Here's the Whole Shebang!
Several Renders of The Irredeemable

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And then the classic render of my former schooner, The Taranis

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I don't think I'm finished doing work on The Irredeemable, my first mate, Ms Kimberly, believes we need more sails. I tell the blasted woman that our Teslectric turbines produce more than enough power but she has a better eye for aesthetics than i. Estebaan, my navigator thinks its just fine however...

[femonky]

I notice that the navy are a little funny about the HMS prefix, allowing 'stone ships' to be HMS, but requiring even submarines to be HM Submarine, at least on official paperwork.  I think Abney Park's HMS Ophelia was the first time I saw an airship with that prefix and IFS is a prefix I am not sure I had ever seen outside Arcanum before I came here.

From what I remember, The persnicketiness about submarines is that they are boats and not ships. So His/Her Majesty's Ship would not be appropriate. And maybe someone will to do the research could tell us why?

[Jemima Annabelle Clough]

I notice that the navy are a little funny about the HMS prefix, allowing 'stone ships' to be HMS, but requiring even submarines to be HM Submarine, at least on official paperwork.  I think Abney Park's HMS Ophelia was the first time I saw an airship with that prefix and IFS is a prefix I am not sure I had ever seen outside Arcanum before I came here.

From what I remember, The persnicketiness about submarines is that they are boats and not ships. So His/Her Majesty's Ship would not be appropriate. And maybe someone will to do the research could tell us why?

From the Royal Navy website:

(Submarines are always called boats – boats can be put on ships whereas ships cannot be put on boats. Early submarines were taken to sea on ships – thus, they were called boats.)

or about 2/3 down this page[url]

[Leadmill]

Our group uses the 'HMS' prefix as the vessel our characters fly on is a Privateer flying under comission from the British government.

[femonky]

The Nebulous Crab, Opportunistic Salvager

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[femonky]

The Liberated Destroyer, Ajax

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[elShoggotho]

SMLS Prinz Luitpold, work starting shortly...

(based on a romanticized version of Bavaria along the lines of a classic fairytale kingom, where Ludwig II actually commissioned that airship and named to honour his uncle, avoiding the unpleasant end his reign took in our timeline)

[Marrock]

The Nebulous Crap, Opportunistic Salvager

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Freudian typo there, what?

[fmra]

My Airship, The Von Wagner, which proudly flies under the colors of the Prussian Empire.

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Since a ship of this size, roughly 785' bow to stern, is impractical to land and far too large for a mooring mast, I have equipped her with a unique system, using engines of my own design built by Krupp Metalworks.  Beyond mooring, they have a variety of attachments which makes them superior utility engines for many jobs.

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My own personal conveyance when circumstances require land travel for great distances, the Humboldt is a rugged and sophisticated amphibious vehicle. It boasts accommodations for myself, up to four guests, and a crews of six, with my field office, library, and salon.

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And, for shorter jaunts, my customized Benz Autocarriage, which has had the original Otto engine replaced with a cesium-powered Bunsen-Mayer engine.

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Lastly, an aerial photo of the Von Wagner moored outside Berlin, with the Humboldt being prepared for a journey to the capital.

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[Interstellar Machine]

Here are a few of my latest made for a SFCIII mod.

[femonky]

The Nebulous Crap, Opportunistic Salvager

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Freudian typo there, what?

*headdesk*
Maybe. Defiantly can't type when I'm insomniatic!

[Albrecht]

Here are a few of my latest made for a SFCIII mod.

What program do you use?

[Jack Corvus]

I found this list of ship prefixes online. Might help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_prefix

It would appear that airships in the british style would be HMS. I can't find any confirmation oin that as zeppelins in WWI were almost entirely German. The Americans had one they used USS for.

Also, interestingly for writers out there in terms of strict grammer usage speaking it isn't "the HMS Jingo-Bob" its just "HMS Jingo-Bob". Apparantly the definite article is discouraged.