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Skyliner builds photorealistic airships inside Blender: golden-age rigid zeppelins like the Hindenburg, Graf Zeppelin, USS Akron and R100, non-rigid blimps from stadium camera ships to Navy K-ships, modern hybrid lifting bodies, tethered radar aerostats and steampunk sky boats. Pick one of 23 presets from pictures, press Add, then change anything. Every setting rebuilds the airship live.

The hulls are built like the real ones. Rigid zeppelins get a girder frame with main rings and longitudinals, a faceted outer cover stretched between them, a mooring cone, control and passenger cars, engine cars on struts or outriggers, a trailing aerial, handling lines and navigation lights. A cutaway slider peels the cover back to show the frame, for under-construction scenes.

Blimps have soft fabric envelopes with seams, gondolas with real cabin interiors, ducted or open propellers, landing wheels and nose battens. Names and registrations are painted on both flanks, reading correctly on each side.

23 real airships
Golden-age zeppelins, Navy blimps, stadium blimps, hybrids, aerostats and steampunk sky boats. Every one can be changed.

Your livery, your name
17 liveries with up to 4 colors, and your own name and registration painted in big letters on both flanks.

Endless new airships
Surprise Me builds a new blimp, zeppelin, hybrid or aerostat with every click: size, hull, gondola, engines, fins and colors.

A real rigid frame
One slider peels the outer cover back over the girder rings of a rigid zeppelin, for cutaways and under-construction scenes.

Features

• 23 presets: Hindenburg, Graf Zeppelin, Akron, R100, R101, WWI raider, Schütte-Lanz, under construction, modern blimp, stadium blimp, Navy K and L, Parseval, sightseeing, RC blimp, steampunk, hybrid, cargo hybrid, three aerostats and an ad blimp
• Blimp, rigid zeppelin, hybrid airship and tethered aerostat, all from preview pictures
• 3 hull shapes, multi-lobe hybrids, 4 fin layouts and 4 fin shapes
• 6 gondola styles, 6 engine layouts, metal, wood or ducted propellers
• 17 liveries with up to 4 colors, plus your own name and registration in big hull letters
• Rigid frame view and cutaway, lights, antennas, mooring cone, hangar and handling lines
• Gentle bobbing, drift and spinning propellers on the timeline
• Randomize and Surprise Me for endless new airships
• Real-world scale in meters, PBR materials that export to game engines, Make Static for export

Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.