maybe a winner....great

What a cool idea! The heat from the bulb provides the lift! Great image, very fun. I'd love to see the sky full of these!

Oh thanks!!! and Mossy great idea, I might mess around with putting some smaller ones in the background when I have some time

Perfect!...

That would be cool, but I meant I'd love to see the "Real World" sky full of these!
If you add more to your image, just don't "cookie cutter" use the same one, okay? Better to leave it be than detract with clones...

~M

Wonderful work! This just yelled "fav fav" to me!

very steam punk... woo hoo... excellent work!

Stunning work

absolutely awesomme ...

Very fun and creative steampunk approach to this contest.

I don't get the mixture of taut cables (clearly supporting the gondola hanging from the balloons) and flaccid cables between the balloons and the gondola. And the small balloon's connection point to the gondola is very odd.

The horizon line of the balloon bottoms is down (albeit different horizon lines for each balloon) while that of the gondola is up.

Notwithstanding the title on source 4, I find the ship more wreck than steampunk.

Fantastic work author, my fav !

Wonderful work!

Thanks everyone for the wonderful comments its like getting a little present each time I see I have a new one

amazing work..!!

wow this is great author gl

good work man

Great job,instant fav.Good luck author

great image!

Impressive work, very well done.

Congratulations on a very well deserved win!

Congrats Robert awesome work

Cingrantulations beauitiful work

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Congrats!!

Congrats, great mood!

Interesting, but flat.

yes, i know i wish i would have added a little bit more shadowing and stuff. It didn't turn out the way I wanted it.

If you don't know what ot put in background, best thing to do is blur it. As CMYK46 suggested, shadows needed.

Shadows and shading would have made this better, sure...but...what an interesting take on the source! I was waiting for some steampunk styling to come out of those rusty mailboxes!

Author, check your links, 1-4 are not working. I'll come back.
Aah, that's better! Some very cool steampunky finds!

Woops, sorry for that.. Fixed it!! Thanx!

Cool picture, love your idea!

Reminds me of Pirate of Carriebean. Nice work.

Thank you!

I like your idea greatly. The individual coins must have been tedious to do. Perhaps see if you can put some shadings on various coins to keep them from all looking the same. Also, maybe some shadows underneath various coins would help. Nice job, author!

Thank you @pixelkid for your comment! I think you are right about the coins, I tried to have somewhat of a shadow on the coins that are under the rest, but that seems to fade away to much. When I have the time I will try and fix that!

hehehe.. oy.. my teeth hurt.. good job

well done author...but the skull seems a bit flat to me...u shud have done a bit of shading... gud luck author

fantastic work author...love the concept, and damn model is hot...best of luck

I think it lacks a little contrast myself but that's just IMO. GL!

Good concept, but there's not enough room for him in there!

Bob, didn't you know that this contraption was specifically built for the man they call 'the weather man' as he was born with no legs, only a torso and a head. He built it extra elaborate to make up for his lack of... well... um... legs hehe

Nice chop btw.

Nice composition, but the yellow-green sky is too dominant and distracting.

indeed the weather man ha only the apper body thats why he needs the weather machine.

Very cool work author...Love the mood so much...best of luck

I think the surrealism doesn't seem to matter if he hits of not. Creative! GL!

Cool! Nice work, author!