Fly the Whimsical Skies

April 10, 2017 12:15 PM

Orphanage for Lost Adventures: Jeroen van Kesteren creates steampunk-influenced airships from cardboard, paper and aluminum foil. [via]

More photos on Pinterest.

posted by jacquilynne (9 comments total)

I thought the tiny little paper doctor getting dragged off by tiny little paper security was a nice touch...

Would honestly rather fly on any of these than a real airplane, even if these don't really work. They are that awesome, and real flying is that horrible.
posted by Naberius at 12:19 PM on April 10, 2017 [2 favorites]

+1, would live in this world.
posted by Horkus at 1:31 PM on April 10, 2017 [1 favorite]

Related question: can anyone point me to a repository of steampunk art that I can just look at and forget the world exists?
posted by R.F.Simpson at 1:54 PM on April 10, 2017

Steampunk.DeviantArt.com
posted by jacquilynne at 3:10 PM on April 10, 2017

Way cool! The detail on these was amazing. Who woulda thunk it?
posted by BlueHorse at 7:19 PM on April 10, 2017

Very nice! If you enjoyed this post, and by some mind boggling series of events are unaware of the creative genius of the Professors Foglio, you will in all likelihood also enjoy Girl Genius, which is magnificent steampunk.
posted by bouvin at 3:21 AM on April 11, 2017

I wish Girl Genius was a series of novels. The title character's resemblance to Paul Williams always throws me.
posted by pxe2000 at 5:22 AM on April 11, 2017

pxe2000, then I have good news for you: There are three Girl Genius novels.
posted by bouvin at 10:01 AM on April 11, 2017

You can scope out the drivable Victorian House that my friends and I built a few years ago, and the actual steam powered car we built to go with it.
posted by boilermonster at 11:33 PM on April 11, 2017 [1 favorite]