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[v7.3.3] Good Year Blimp GZ-20a

There is now a blank canvas blimp for people to modify as they see fit:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1216440074

The engines and whatnot are in the balloon to keep things lookin' purdy, and it all balances nicely on that little foot. I was having such a great time finishing it up, that I made the Icarus sandals on the side into more rockets ^_^.
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- Standard equipment- Constructor for the dashboard, O2 & Fridge are a slurpee machine; forgot to add cargo boxes.
- Status says there's 10% oxygene although I didn't add any :/.
- Forward Top Speed of 26.x m/s, which is just above it's real top speed of 54 mph.
- Crews 6 total (1 less than actual).
- There are 13 3x3 illuminated squares on each side for writing on.
- This is the biggest Small Vessel I have made so far.

I used an Android app called "Circle for Minecraft" by Saranomy, which is literally only for drawing pixel circles (21.6kb). First I traced an outline of the balloon from a side picture of the original using Pain Shop Pro, then resized it to pixel size using measurements set as 1 block = 0.5 meters, or 2 feet. This gave me an estimated size in pixels. I then created the rough skeleton and used the Circle app (and mirroring thank heavens!) to fill in the canvas, and there's half the balloon in all its blocky glory! Next was detailing with ramps and triangles until I had something that resembled a cockroach :P. Thankfully after a Copy-Paste-Rotate, that image quickly vanished. Although a space-cockroach would be horrible but in a good way :).

Here's how I work out a base for a replica:
The player fits in 1x3 blocks, so 1 block may equal 0.5m.
Original is 192 feet long, or 58.5 meters (round to 58).
If 1 block = 58 x 2, then 58m = 116 blocks.
1 block = 1 pixel, so the balloon sketch will be 116 pixels long, and so will be the skeleton..
The front is about 46 blocks, the gondola is ~12 blocks, and the back is ~58 = 116.

Hope you Enjoy & Thank you for visiting!