Aerial Dreadnought

Sketch for new image. Here's my little descriptive blurb:

"What a ripping scene! Hull holed, dorsal vanes shredded, the RAS Recalcitrant emerges from the cloud wrack over the village of Much Nadderby to bravely reengage the invading Brungarian aerial dreadnoughts!"






OK, here's an image in progress... Still need to do foreground bad guy and village and landscape below.












Final image: (update, added aerial  shell bursts)

I added a second, larger airship in the background, the RAS Steerpike:

RAS Recalcitrant As Astounding Stories Cover

Cover made from this image. Mr. Moorcock never wrote a story with this title, but I'm basing it on Oswald Bastable's adventures in time (Warlord Of The Air, etc.). My version of the airships use boron hulls as Moorcock described, but instead of helium or hydrogen, they employ vacuum vessels, which would have enormous lifting force. Update: added more explosions.