This project was born from an idea I had of a scifi vehicle using Propane tanks as the engines and what that would look like juxtaposed with the more high-tech elements of a traditional scifi vehicle. 

As the project evolved more and more ideas cropped up for using "real-world" objects as elements in the design, such as the Coleman lamps as engine nozzles or using a spraygun as the flightstick in the cockpit.

All in all, incredibly fun putting this thing together, a combination of kitbash and modeling from scratch, the final model is a fully-rigged, quad subdividable mesh modeled and rendered in Blender, Textured in Substance Painter.

The whole idea behind the design is the Propane tanks act as four individual rocket engines, creating thrust, and any vectoring would be controlled by a flight computer adjusting each engines individual power helped by the four "helicopter-blade" fins which would also turn to adjust for turning, banking or rolling the vehicle.

The plan from the beginning was also to fully model the interior cockpit, with every knob, switch and display

Due to the inherent unstable aerodynamic nature of such a vehicle, an advanced Flight Computer (FLICOM) is needed to perform millions of calculations per second adjusting thrust and aerodynamic surfaces to keep the craft stable, any manual input from the pilot would be interpreted by the computer for a fully "fly-by-wire" system.

From a visual perspective, I wanted to keep the retro-futuristic aesthetic by using a CRT display style and animating it with some higher-tech elements, the whole User interface was animated using Blender's built-in geometry nodes, definitely a fun workflow!