The Iron Guppy pacifies the unruly West

Victor Vitale takes steampunk into the Old West with this teeny tiny airship airboat piloted by a pair of U.S. cavalry soldiers.

12 comments on “The Iron Guppy pacifies the unruly West

  1. stridermt2k

    I need to contact someone about my account. (strider_mt2k)
    Password trouble and the site won’t email me.

    I love alternate universe stuff like this.

    Nicely done!

  2. Andrew Post author

    ^ Looks like your comments are coming through now. I’ll shoot you an e-mail later to work through the other issues. :)

  3. Legeaux

    Shouldn’t the description be ‘airboat’ rather than ‘airship’? They’re quite different things (unless I’m missing the point).

  4. eyezic

    hey thats real cool, I ain’t naever heard of steampunk before so I looked it up and thats a perfect genre for legos. oh those rifles are trill, are they lego? or mega? ive never seen them in a lego set before

  5. Andrew Post author

    ^ Welcome to The Brothers Brick! Please consider using proper spelling and grammar, or we will be forced to assume you are under the age of 13, and therefore in violation of the Terms of Service.

    The rifles are from BrickArms.

  6. Motor.On

    Not being a follower of steampunk:

    How is an airboat or airship of this design supposed to stay in the air?

    I can see it boat-ing well, but as for being in the air… I just can’t see it happening.

    Not that this isn’t totally awesome.

  7. Victor V.

    Thanks for the Blog, Andrew.

    And yes, it’s supposed to be an air-boat. Glad so many like it! :)

  8. Motor.On

    Now that makes much more sense. I was stuck on “airship” and thinking that an airboat is a little airship, kinda like a boat is a little ship (to a point)

    Thanks

  9. Andrew Post author

    I think “airboat” works reasonably well in a steampunk/cattlepunk context, regardless of how it’s used by gater-hunters and Horatio Cane. ;)

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