Cooool!

I really like your style. What a neat looking character! Is she part of some sort of WWII oriented storyline?

The character is a one-off, spoofing the movie The Rocketeer. But she's from an alien species called the Teh Langgi. I occasionaly draw some other member of the species, such as this one, but usually I focus on one particular character named Tangel' (which is short for Tangelwedsibel). You can find images of her (and more information on the Teh Langgi) scattered throughout my gallery pages. Forgive me if I don't try to recapitulate it all here.

That is some exceptional color and texture. Just marvelous!

Woah.....that is amazing!! 10 out of 10!! Perfection!! Batting 1000!! etc....

One of my favorite movies! And I can smell that singed tail fur from way over here.

Just damn cool.

hooo i remenber this kind of movie ! it was vrery cool X3

I hope she's got something to prevent her tail from catching on fire.

What, never heard of fire-retardent fur?

I suppose that would do it. Of course, I'll leave the argument of if fluffy tails are aerodynamic or not for another day. ;p

Flying with a tail is easy. Driving a car with a large tail can be a challenge. But riding a bicyle with a large fluffy tail... Now that's taking your life into your hands!

Heh. Indeed! Suppose it could be used like a rudder when swimming, too. ...if you don't mind taking the pool home with you.

Maybe if the bicycle had deep wheel covers like the old Indian motorcycles had. I know there actually were some like that, a long way back. Such stylin'.

I have one of those pistols, a huge goofy yet cool-looking thing, but have never fired it. The fact that the last one (the last German-made one anyhow, the Chinese were nutz for them and turned out a bunch of copies of misc quality) came off the line in 1936, and that mine is a Frankenmauser of mixed parts may well be a factor in my reluctance.

I have a life-size model with working parts, and shoulder stock that doubles as a carrying case. I also have a decent 5/6 scale toy that clicks and I don't mind fooling around with. If it breaks, I haven't lost as much.

Jim Groat offered to sell me a Chinese broomhandle knockoff once, but I decined. Even though it didn't work (which was a plus in my opinion, since I didn't want a working gun), he wanted more than I'd pay for it, and getting it back into Canada was a risk I wasn't prepared to take at any price. It would have been cool to have it though. The perfect toy gun is a real toy gun that doesn't actually fire.

The Japanese make some excellant non-firing replica. As to Jim's offer, I believe your judgment was entirely correct there.

Interestingly enough, of the several Yahoo boards I'm subscribed to, only one - the C96 Mauser one - is actually not only alive but regularly adding new members, active ones who post messages and upload photos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V7CD13Nxro 2:53 to 2:58

watch out for that zeppelin!.....it's full'a hydrogen!.....one dead shot and we'll all fry!!

Hmmmm... maybe, maybe not. One of the reasons so many people rejected the hydrogen fire theory of what happened to the Hindenberg is that hydrogen won't burn unless well mixed with air, and escaping hydrogen wouldn't mix well at first. If it ignited it would also burn with a bluish flame -- but eye-witnesses said the Hindenberg burned with a red flame. It also spread oddly, as though the cells were bursting one at a time before the gas could catch fire. Even so, the gas should have risen quickly, ataking the flame with it. Finally, a researcher proved that it wasn't actually the hydrogen burning. The Hindenberg was different from other German diridgeables in that its covering fabric was doped with an aluminum doped resin that gave it its characteristic silvery colour. He obtained a rare specimen of the covering that hadn't been burned by the Lakehurst disaster and found it burned like a flare! In fact, chemically the aluminum resin was similar to current solid rocket fuels. In a demonstration he took a patch of newly doped fabic, applied a match to it, and it went up in an instant, burning like it was saturated in gunpowder. The current thinking is that the fire on the Hindenberg was primarily due to the burning of the doped covering, with the bulk of the hydrogen gas just escaping harmlessly into the air!

Which is a long winded was of saying that if you shot holes in a hydrogen blimp, all that may happen is that the hydrogen would escape through the holes! At the very least, you'd have to have incendiary rounds to set it afire.

Wasn´t an airattack with airships one of the Brits greatest fears during the WWI?

I don't recall such a thing. The Brits built some airships, but were never able to match the Germans. There was some German bombing of London from dirigeables during WWI, but it could't have materially advanced the course of the war. Bombing cities is just a bad habit the Germans got into, early. It started in 1871 in the Franco-Prussian War. They bombarded Paris after surrounding it. There was some justification at the time -- the city wouldn't surrender. But it's likely that starvation was what really forced Paris to give up, not demolishing random and mainly working class neighborhoods. The Germans resorted to the actual bombing of Paris WWI, as well as London. In WWII they started off with a bang by dropping bombs on Polish cities who didn't even know they were at war yet.

Ah... I misread you. "One of the greatestd FEARS." Yeah, they did worry about it, since their defenses were mainly slow speed biplanes with limited ceilings. The dirigeables could float serenly over the futile little fighers and drop 25 pound bombs by the dozens... Lacking any real blockbusters, though, and having no way to accurate aim from 15,000 feet, it was a pretty empty threat. As I recall, the German aviators were none too keen about being shot down either. A well placed bullet might create a fiery holocaust in the air.