Builds 8: The Airship

Some more airship shots. Got quite a few. Will be posting them sporadically.

A clean viewing angle so you can get a better idea of what you are looking at. Yep, that sim it is sitting in is my sandbox, and there is a previous building sitting there in the next sim over.

Yes, the paddle wheels really are the propulsion system, but no they don't turn. They generate a field that creates thrust to move the ship. At some point I hope to create a glowing ball lightning animation that loops through the paddles creating a sense of movement.

Another moody view from the bottom which shows the forced perspective of the SL rendering engine very nicely. The angled metal plates are four field generators all at right angles to each other. For you conspiracy buffs, it is the basic format of Telsa's anti-gravity field generator, purportedly impounded and covered up by the U.S. and Polish governments. Okay, his drawings used rounded disks, but I like my design better.