Does the IRA use potato guns?

I’ve been giving it some thought, and I wonder if it would be possible to create a steam engine small and light enough for a model RC steam powered dirigible. Theoretically, one could get a helium balloon specially made in the shape desired like the  promotional shaped RC blimps. I’ve found an RC gas powered blimp online, but thought it would be cooler if the idea was taken that extra step and made steam powered. Obviously, the weight ratio would have to be compensated for, but it would be really sweet looking if done right. The overt design features could be printed on the bag or, using a light foam structure, added as extraneous parts. I just think it should be tried. I haven’t got the space requirements for it right now, but maybe in the future I’ll live somewhere bigger than my NYC apartment.

Also, along those same lines, I think it should be possible to make a neutral weight UFO shaped dirigible and attach the props on the outside rim allowing for greater maneuverability; add some blue and white chaser LEDs and have a blast in Central Park. A whole fleet should be made and flown. If made big enough, the LEDs could be lined on the whole surface and be used to simulate all sorts of unidentified sky light shows.

Maybe it’s a good thing I’m poor…

After working late into the night pulsing highly charged plasma particles into the atmosphere to create an anti-iPhone stratospheric phenomena wave, I slept like a baby knowing nothing could possibly go wrong with this fool-proof plan. The Evil Plan failed, it rained this morning instead. If you’re experiencing any problems with AT&T’s service coverage it’s their fault not mine.

Many blogs around the net are dedicated to the objects, clothing, and artworks designated as “steampunk” by their creators. In fact, one of the most searched for keywords that lands people here on my blog is “Steampunk Airship”, which is odd as I have only one “Steam Pirate Airship” picture, doodled while working at a temp job in the financial district last year.

Instead of reviewing other people’s work and posting old pictures of their stuff, I thought, “why not add something to the world of steampunk by sketching up some new heavier-than-air steam skyships.” I have been writing some short stories as of late and needed an outlet for visual reference, so the following skyships are exactly that.

1. The “Napoléon”

2. “El Oriflama”

Check the Wallpapers page for desktop wallpaper versions of these fine works…;).

Stu was a boiler worker who was called upon day and night to fix the steam powered electric generator that Tesla had been using to power his ghastly experiments within the aether… or something like that.

This is the last one, fellows and gals. The Steampunk Rabbit idea is horrible.