A Viking Battleship or Spaceship

[Radish]

Thinking.....

A Warspite or Arizona....
but with oars.....

Could look good.

Opinions?

[ChernayaAkula]

Anything Viking will get my vote!

- needs a dragon figurehead on the bow!
- needs axes!

The single mast and square sail are very distinctive features of a Viking ship. Maybe you could incorporate that as well? Solar sail or sumfink?

[proditor]

A figurehead is an absolute must.  I also like the single sail, as oars, while cool, trigger my instant bireme/trireme association.

Of couse if you paired the oars with a ram similar to the one I put on the Edison, you'd have a "modern" roman empire battlewagon.

Hmmmmmm...............

[Weaver]

Well the logical powered successors to oars are paddlewheels, so why not have a line of paddlewheels down each side, with traditional round shields painted on the casings? Warhamster might be a good source of shield decals. As for the single sail, why not give it a huge single curvature rectangular radar aerial (like early sets), painted in vertical coloures stripes? And yes, it needs a dragon figurehead.

Revell do a 1/50th scale Viking ship, bits of which might scaleorama suitably: Viking Ship  It's 385mm long and the Airfix 1/600th Warspite is only 325mm, so the bits should translate quite well.


EDIT: SMER do a 1/60th one (303mm long) too: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DRAKKAR-VIKING-SHIP-DRAGON-KIT-1-60-MODEL-SMER-902-NEW-/400111411423?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_ToysGames_ModelKits_ModelKits_JN&hash=item5d287fa0df

[Mossie]

I remember mentioning to Chris about a Roman airship, hydrogen produced by accident from a dodgy alchemy experiment lifting the tent in which the experiment was carried out.  Early airships were propelled by oars too.

So a Viking ship on the lines of this pirate airship from Stadust maybe???

[puddingwrestler]

There was a Nodwick comic in which they were confronted by a ship of Pirate Ninjas... strapped to the head of a terrasque. This was obviously the ultimate combination of awesome and doom, so they had to think hard to come up with a combination cool enough to beat it. They ended up witha submarine crewed by cannibal vikings... strapped to the head of a titan.
I have the very comic saved on my work laptop, but can't find it easily from home...

[Radish]

Awesome airships!!!