Archive for the 'Projects' Category

“Damnation” Timberclad PS3

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

maduncle writes from the Antipodes:
 

A long time ago in a basement far, far away…
  
Mr. Jake of All Trades faces the daunting task of building the ultimate gaming PC for the launch of the new Steampunk themed game ‘Damnation’ and also knock up a modified PS3 in the same genre.
 
Both items were to be prizes [...]

House of Secrets Incorporated

Monday, April 20th, 2009

House of Secrets Incorporated is the independent designers identity of a Miss Hilde Heyvaert from Belgium, who specializes in original and custom-made steampunk outfits that should agree to any type of steampunk enthusiast!
The lovely photograph above show several items from her “Steampunk Adventurer” wardrobe. Besides the goggles (”Girl Genius”), aviator hat (”‘t Amerikaantje”), belts (”Moda [...]

Steampunk TARDIS Console

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

               
May I direct your attention to this rather wonderful work in progress, as made by one ‘douglas442′, more details can be viewed here.
                    

Steamboy’s STEAMBALL Replica

Friday, January 30th, 2009

As seen in the film of the same name, this high pressure steam vessel has been replicated by your very own Herr Döktor, a build diary of a sort can be found here.

Clive Batkin’s Creations

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Clive Batkin is a new (and hopefully upcoming) steampunk artist of whom we proudly display two perfectly stylish creations here.
The first image depicts a steampunk desk lamp called “The Optimus” by Mr Batkin, after the Swedish-made brass stove that forms the base of the lamp. Simple and beautiful, “The Optimus” should perfectly complement any [...]

Steampunk Cellphone

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

You might not realize at first quite what this contraption is, but it’s the first full-fledged steampunk cellphone! It has, “no display. No 3G. No data plan. No games. It doesn’t even have a dial pad,” write the people at Unplggd “You make your calls with binary-coded punch cards, steampunk.”
The device was created by a [...]

Halloween Aviator Costume

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Mr Andy Miller was so inspired by the “Steampunk Ornithopter” we wrote about last October, that he decided to built one himself!
Mr Miller crafted the wings out of a variety of parts, the frames made of bamboo sticks, the cloth being a recycled tablecloth, and the steam engine a copy machine toner cartridge, with a [...]

Gatehouse Gazette #3

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Steampunk is all about “Playing Roles & Dressing-Up” with the third and holiday issue of the Gatehouse Gazette.
Read about the most stylish history maker, Beau Brummell, from Mr James Roberts or discover the glory of the Venetian Carnival in an article by Mr Joost van Ekris. Learn the life story of the first steampunk musician [...]

Gatehouse Gazette #2

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Steampunk is “History in the Making” with the second issue of the Gatehouse Gazette, released this September.
From the origins of World War I by Mr Robert Rodgers to an article about Japan’s reasons for attacking Pearl Harbor by Mr J.D. Roger, it is history that the contributors to the Gazette are writing. Between all this [...]

The Machines de L’île (Nantes)

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

If you are the lucky ones who have friends/family/holidays in Brittany. You have to go to Nantes.
First of all, the city saw the birth of one of our beloved genius, Jules Vernes. But I will not talk literature now, but mechanics.
When you go downtown, near the river Loire, there is a very particular island in [...]