Pride of Garn Itr - Skybattleship
The Pride of Garn Itr - The most modern imperial warship. Named for an ancient mythological giant the ship was build as a demonstration of power, prosperity and wealth. She was meant to serve as a reminder of the Empires unquestionable martial prowess. She came to be quite the opposite when she was lost to an insurrectionist gunboat attack only 32 days after her commissioning.
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I recently fell into a WW2 naval combat shaped Youtube hole. The unquenchable desire to make something vaguely WW2 but still keep it SciFi spawned this idea. A fully armed and armoured Airship. The inspiration lies somewhere between Ghibli Airships and the HMS Dreadnought (which is actually WW1 but whatever).
All work done in Blender.
The shortlived pride of the imperial navy.
A better view of the secondary and tertiary guns.
12 45" guns housed in 4 batteries. The largest weapon ever fitted to an airship at that time. (Fun fact: The largest gun ever deployed in WW2 was 31.5")
502 meters of floating steel.
While initially intimidating, if she got that close she was likely not there to blow you up.
The ship was equipped with limited hangar space to house its own ultralight reconnaissance aircraft.
The exhaust was funnelled downwards, as high smokestacks would further interfere with the aerodynamic properties of an already spectacularly un-aerodynamic construction.