First Aeronautics Art Reveal—A Vote!

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Okay, the Manual of Aeronautics comes out August 21, a mere three months and a bit from now, so it’s time to start the art reveals!

In keeping with tradition, let’s have us a vote. I’ve chosen three possible pieces of art to reveal, so choose wisely.

Which would you rather see in glorious color?

1) The bridge of the Leviathan

2) A Sultan’s elephant walker

3) A fléchette bat!

Use the comments thread below to vote (by number makes it easier), or simply to cajole, convince and coerce your fellow commenters about how they should vote.

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182 thoughts on “First Aeronautics Art Reveal—A Vote!”

  1. I would love to see the bridge! 😀 (And I can’t believe *I’m* the first comment. How did that happen?)

  5. 1
    As interested as I am to see a fléchette bat… I think the bridge of the Leviathan would make for a fascinating picture.

  7. I seem to be alone but I’d love the see the fléchette bat! I’d love to see their digestive tract, for one thing!

  19. #1 fo sho!

    Also- how do you chose which fanarts to show on FAF? Can we email suggestions whenever, or just when you request them?

  22. @19. Well. If you have fanart to send in yourself, simply attach it to an email to scott. click “click here to contact scott” at the top of the page to get his email. If it’s in a link, email him the link, or possibly twitter him.

  32. Oh mi gosh! The bridge would be fantastic to see since the Trilogy did start from the Leviathan, I think it would be symbolic to show it first…. right? *You’re supposed to agree with me right there* ;D
    So #1 would be amazing, and I can’t wait to see everything in color but at the same time terrified that it wouldn’t be as I imagined it to be…
    Definitely ordering the book soon.

  33. The Sultan’s elephant walker. I haven’t quite figured that one out; the others I can imagine.

  37. #1 for sure the bridge will be amazing, especially if it is annotated, then we can learn to control it if it floats by… and #2 surely wouldn’t have that much colour??
    #1 definately

  38. *not 2 meant 3 wouldnt have much colour
    not sure if this counts again but
    #1!

  48. We’ve seen the bridge and the walker without color already. I want a flechette bat pretty please!!

  66. #3 actually, since i’ve always been a bit confused as to what they are. Then #1 because its the LEVIATHAN, DUH, although #2 is probably the coolest-looking

    i suppose there wont be a terribly lot of clanker stuff in here? Im a total clanker fan, hahaha

  68. I’m pretty sure there’s no chance in hell that anything but #1 is going to win, BUT I’m gonna go ahead and cast my vote for #3, a fléchette bat! 🙂

  69. numero uno!

    I wonder if, since the manual will apparently include ottaman walkers, it will include the uniforms and styles of the ottaman empire. I’ve always been curious as to what the difference is between western and turkish clothing, because in the illustrations I didn’t see a difference….

  74. 1 all the way (but there are so many ones all the way to this point that you may not even need to scroll down this far.)
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  76. I would like to see what a flechette bat looks like! but an elephant walker is just AWESOME!!!!

  79. I’m interested to see 3… although it seems we’ll be seeing 1 first… well anyways I VOTE 3.

  84. #2 would be cool. (Even though one seems to be too far ahead to compete with.) I happen to like machines a lot.
    @Comment 33 on previous post: Apparently there ARE CLANKER THINGS in a British Manual of Aeronautics!!!!! See that with the caps? That was for EMPHASIS!!

  85. Number 1! I’d love seeing the Leviathan up close.
    My second chokce would definately be the bats…

  86. Sadly I know that one shall win. But I ill still vote.

    THREE. ME WANT THE BAT. ALL COLORIFIED.

  90. But after 1 I should like to see 3 as it is the only one without a close up illustration in the books.

  92. I believe the bridge because vladimir gvozdariki’s mechanical elephant is AMAZING and i’ve seen it already, courtesy of google images.

    Bridge – never before seen,

    Flechette bats – look like normal bats.

    This is supposed to be a dragonfly

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  96. 1! I’ve always had a little trouble wrapping my had around the size and architecture of the leviathan. I want to see how things fit.

  106. bat!!!!!! never saw those suckers in the book, was always interested in what they looked like!

  109. 3
    BAT BAT BAT BAT!
    I might be mildly obsessed with bats… I might have stopped reading for a moment the first time I read Leviathan to celebrate the fact that bats weren’t being used as an evil character or as something to be feared.
    Umm… yes. Bats, please!

  110. #1! It would be great to see one of the bats, but the bridge, oh, I’m swooning just thinking about it.

  124. I’d like to see the bridge!! :DD
    (AND ALEK AND DERYN. MAKING OUT.)
    (Do HTML tags work in these things…ah well. Let’s find out!! :DD)

  129. Omg! It would be awesome if the manual included the goliath bonus chapter! Id love to see it in print! Awesomness!!!!!!!!!!!

  132. I am reminding you that I’d love to see 1.
    @129 Yes! Unfortunately if they didn’t already think of that it’s too late (obviously)
    🙁

  133. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111!
    Enough said

  147. i wanna see a flechette bat, i’ve never actually seen one up close…

    but i guess everyone else wants the bridge :3

  156. umm…errgh…oh… well, i personally lean toward Clanker and would love to see #2, but the #1, the bridge, so exciting… as long as all three are in the Manual i guess i’m fine. and how’d Clanker stuff get into the British Darwinist Manual???

  157. #3! I wanna see what they look like close up, not just a black cloud in the background!

  165. I’m honestly stuck between numbers 1 and 3… those bats have always been very interesting to me, yet the bridge in color is as equally great.

    I think i’ll go with the bridge, because the majority (If i had to guess…) said #1.

  166. 1 please!!! ^ ^ My cat will eat you if you don’t vote for 1!
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  175. 1 for sure! But it’s mostly because the other two pictures will mostly have only one object in them, but with the bridge we will get to see the whole internal anatomy of the Leviathan in COLOR!

  176. That’s a tough one >.< I'm going to say 1, but any of them would be awesome!

    I so wanted to go to the writers festival today but I was working 🙁

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