Building Martian skyships and Pijlie's Skyship rules: Action pictures!!!!!!!!

[Bullshott]

Great stuff. I like the Martian ship designs :_

[The_Beast]

For native Martian craft I've always thought I'd use some kind of "solar" sail that mimics traditional sailing vessels but catches some "ethereal" alien current.

Could be problematic for purposes of play although.

Frank Chadwick has come around to the idea that liftwood craft would float upward, then 'turn off' the anti-grav and glide down. Daft to me.

If you 'turn off' gravity on the earth, you would rise, but so slowly as the wind might blow you so far in one direction, you might not have enough glide to counter in a different intended direction.

I'd suggested that wise old Martian helmsmen would use a laminar boundary and the sails top and bottom.

Actually, once in battle, most sails might be 'stowed for action.' And a battle is what you plan, no? 

Doug

[Pijlie]

I readily admit that playing skyship combat and bafflingly cool looks for the ships will take absolute priority above consistent fake natural lawmongering 

[SBRPearce]

For your sails, perhaps vacu-forming thin polystyrene sheet? You could even do the "dead simple" version of making a form out of plaster of paris, sanding it smooth, then heating your plastic sheet with a heat gun and forming it by hand while wearing those silicon oven mitts...You can achieve some compound curves, then trim to fit with scissors.

Or, mark the shape you need before pulling it off the form, edge with thin half-round mouldings, then trim and "rig".

[The_Beast]

I readily admit that playing skyship combat and bafflingly cool looks for the ships will take absolute priority above consistent fake natural lawmongering 

And, with my last statement above, I prove I can drag ANY crazy idea back to internally self-consistent... 

Call me the justifier...

Doug

[Pijlie]

And, with my last statement above, I prove I can drag ANY crazy idea back to internally self-consistent... 

Call me the justifier...

Doug

And justly so 

[Billchuck]

Frank Chadwick has come around to the idea that liftwood craft would float upward, then 'turn off' the anti-grav and glide down. Daft to me.

If you 'turn off' gravity on the earth, you would rise, but so slowly as the wind might blow you so far in one direction, you might not have enough glide to counter in a different intended direction.

If the Liftwood could reverse gravity, then the ship could "fall" upwards fast enough to "glide" forward on the rise as well as the fall. That would explain the parachute-like sails: they fill upward when descending and downward when ascending.

[The_Beast]

All of his comments that I've seen indicate that liftwood can merely negate or block gravitic pull. He started wandering in to talk of bosons that so jarred me so as to plug my ears. *shrug*

In the end, I don't want bosons in my VSF... 

Doug

[YPU]

In the end, I don't want bosons in my VSF... 

#Barsoom-not-Bosons


... I'll get my coat.

[Pijlie]

All of his comments that I've seen indicate that liftwood can merely negate or block gravitic pull. He started wandering in to talk of bosons that so jarred me so as to plug my ears. *shrug*

In the end, I don't want bosons in my VSF... 

Doug

So the Higgs-Boson drive is out then. Eight Ray Engine it is 

[The_Beast]

Jolly jokers...  

Doug

Edit: Come to think on it, quite happy with 'god particle', as long as it's some 'heathen Martian deity.'  Don't know who this fellow Boson is. Sounds Flemish.

Right, my coat as well.

[Pijlie]

Sneak peek of the (nearly finished) Zodanga ship:

[Captain Darling]

Great bit of construction there, the Martian ship design is very nice.

[YPU]

I see fancy sails on that one.   

[Pijlie]

I see fancy sails on that one.   

Not yet These are the wings I originally planned for. But I have ambitious wing designs....