Savoia Marchetti Regatta Fish

Update -- never liked the little people I added for scale. So I stole Emilio Ponticelli and his wife (with some extras). He was a character in 'Those Magnificent Men And Their Flying Machines.' He kept buying really dangerous experimental 'aeroplanes.'

Another Mechanical Fish

I was playing around with Illustrator, pondering how to create fish or snake scales elegantly, and I ended up with this image (I finished in Photoshop).

Update: I did a color version and added details.

Update: I changed the water, colored some scales a steel color, and made all the rivets steel.

Mechanical Coelacanth

I did this for a friend, who asked for a coelacanth picture for her son.