I was/am a huge fan of Dave Steven’s Rocketeer, but the design of the rocket pack always gave me problems, as I wondered how his pants didn’t catch on fire. Anyway, I decided to draw a 1940’s tech (albiet very advanced) style rocketeer. There are vectored nozzles on the ends of the rockets, they rotate and pivot. The unit is gyroscopically stabilized. He’s holding some kind of energy weapon that gets power from a turbine generator in the rocket. The ring thing on the end of it is a cathode to give the energy a direction to go in. Shooting down Messerschmitt Me 262s with it. Combustion is efficient enough to not leave a smoke trail. 

I was/am a huge fan of Dave Steven’s Rocketeer, but the design of the rocket pack always gave me problems, as I wondered how his pants didn’t catch on fire. Anyway, I decided to draw a 1940’s tech (albiet very advanced) style rocketeer. There are vectored nozzles on the ends of the rockets, they rotate and pivot. The unit is gyroscopically stabilized. He’s holding some kind of energy weapon that gets power from a turbine generator in the rocket. The ring thing on the end of it is a cathode to give the energy a direction to go in. Shooting down Messerschmitt Me 262s with it. Combustion is efficient enough to not leave a smoke trail. 

  1. yetanotherjohn reblogged this from operationfailure and added:
    Weird timing considering I just finished reading the Rocketeer.
  2. tomgastall reblogged this from stevensanders and added:
    Another great illustration by Steven Sanders.
  3. operationfailure reblogged this from stevensanders and added:
    If you ever needed just one more reason...follow Steven Sanders…
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