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I was picking around on my drive (checking that I had backups of everything) when I came across this model that I made a couple of years ago. I still consider it one of my best (though it's untextured and I never got the smoke to look right) and so felt it should be in the gallery. So here's a compilation of some renders of the Airship Pickle, named after the HMS Pickle which (barely) participated in the Battle of Trafalgar. I just like the name, especially considering the names of the other ships there: Victory, Neptune, Leviathan, Colossus, Thunderer... and Pickle ^^
Chains and gears are set up to animate easily with the speed of each propeller controlled individually. Here's a flyaround to show how she looks in action: [link]
As usual, photobucket video quality isn't the best, but you get the idea.

edit: I don't know why that link comes out screwy. Seems it goes to my gallery on photobucket rather than straight to the video.
Seems DA can't link to a url with an emoticon code as part of it. Changing filename and re-uploading it should fix it...
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~Brainstormer623 Apr 17, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
Me: (*riding it*) "I'm in a pickle!" :dummy:
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~PaulFrancis Feb 16, 2013
I love it - love the slight pressure making the airbag swell between the ropes. Do you sell your models? I need on like this for my next picture and I can't model to save my life!
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~WaltzingChicken Mar 16, 2012  Student General Artist
It looks like a corn
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!GeneralLlama Oct 21, 2011
I would totally ride that
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~Javajunkie1976 Jul 6, 2011
Very nice design for an airship. I'm assuming it's a personal craft and not a cargo/passenger ship? I like how the airbag is contained by the rope net. I designed a steam powered airship as well. Mine has the exhaust from the boiler as the source for the hot air in the balloon. I figured that the exhaust would be filtered so that the cinders wouldn't damage the bag.
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~SnowMonk May 2, 2011  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Seems to me like if real, it would be like a private civilian Airship.
But its really sweet regardless.

Very Nice.
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~pfors May 22, 2011
Yes, the Pickle is hardly a warship of any kind. More likely a pleasure craft, or possibly something used by the mail service.
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!La-Zombie-de-Paris Aug 20, 2009
This is by far my favorite airship on DeviantArt. Perhaps the best aspect of it is the color scheme. I've seen many airships with extremely well-crafted design which lose "points" simply because the colors do not mesh well. In short, bravo.

P.S, I can't stop watching this baby in motion! Hooray for the mighty Pickle!!!
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~pfors Aug 28, 2009
Glad you like :)
Actually I think it could have done with a bit of low key texturing. I was just sick of working on it by the time I got it to this stage, so I never got around to it ;)
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~Ochichi Sep 20, 2008
Coolissimo! Beats flying around in a 747 any day! :lol:
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