Mechanical flapping steampunk leather zeppelin

The latest thing of beauty to emerge from the Ukrainian cave of wonders operated by Bob Basset, a collective of steampunk leatherworkers, is this "Flapping Push Toy": a leather steampunk airship with flapping bat-wings, brass portholes, and intricate gears within. Bravo!

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Anonymous

Looks like a wooden version of the shape of the Rocket Robin Hood space ships.

“Band of brothers, marching together…”
balbuto

So its a freaky little thing… But I like it. It represents the steampunk style very well.
frenchtoastkiss

Aw, it’s adorable!
TheMadLibrarian

This is what happens when you ask Agatha Heterodyne to design a submarine…
Nadreck

The correct name is “dirigible” unless Count Zeppelin had something to do with it. Anyway, ditto on the comments about it being a leather fish.

P.S. I highly recommend the good Count’s biography to anyone who can find it. IF you made a strictly factual movie about it no one would believe it because it’s too corny. Eg. when his last-chance-or-I’m-bankrupt Zeppelin got wrecked the miracle of the telegraph sent the news out and everyone in Germany had contributed a couple of marks from their piggy banks for him to try again by the time his train got back from the accident site. First on-(telegraph)-line fundraiser ever!
Spencer Cross

I’m way, way, WAY over “steampunk,” but this is so goddamned cool.
- Anonymous
  
  Then Steampunk was never your style to begin with……
Anonymous

I had one just like this as a kid, but mine was plastic.
Anonymous

Of course the internal gas-bags of most zeppelins were made from the intestinal membranes of cows, arguably a sort of leather.
efergus3

Must win lottery!
Agies

I don’t know, looks more like a Submarine than an Airship to me.
- Gloria
  
  Ditto. It’s the fins. Dead giveaway. Definitely a fish.
  
  I actually thought this was more clockpunk (no, seriously). Maybe it’s the webbed “wings”/fins — reminds me of Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machine designs.
Gilmoid1

Damn! Steampunk Flash Gordon!
rrh

It also has what looks like a periscope at the top, and that pointy thing on the bottom right could be an anchor. Definitely a submarine.
Cefeida

That is so pretty!
Slicklines

Easily the coolest (and most needed) object on the internet.
Robert

OMG for a moment I thought it said Fapping Plush Toy. I need more coffee.
Ito Kagehisa

Olias awoke from a dream and drank his soul into the ocean
that sailed past the brink of his window that long summer.

Then build the ship the Moorglade Mover
to sail a silence which nobody knows…

Olias shines as clear as his sons emotions retrace him.
(As one delivers always one will shine over you)

I’ve sailed and always will to parts of Sunhillow
(Ride on Olias remember your begotten father)

I’ve trailed and sailed a silence which nobody knows
(Ride on Olias remember your begotten sons)

OK, this ship is clearly not the Moorglade, but that’s what it instantly reminded me of… very nice work.
etho

This looks remarkably like my spaceship design in Spore. Mine was a little more elongated, but the brass accents, bat wings and turrets along the top. Spot on.

Very cool. I wish I could buy one.
phisrow

“Now, eat all your coal, or you’ll never grow up to be a nice big zeppelin…”