Archive for the 'Projects' Category

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 [...]

Gatehouse Gazette

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

“The new steampunk & dieselpunk magazine” is here with the release of the first issue of the Gatehouse Gazette.
In this first issue, the reader with find an introduction to the genre of dieselpunk by Piecraft and Ottens, an interview with Toby Frost, author of the steampunk-in-space novel, Space Captain Smith, an article about the gentleman [...]

SteampunkWallpaper.com Wants Your Ideas!

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Mouse of our Steampunk Forum has searched in vain all over the internet for Steampunk wallpapers. Finding a shortage, he she decided to amend that by creating SteampunkWallpaper.com. She has started this project with the ambitious idea to create a wallpaper a day for a year. She has many so far, yetshe is on the [...]

Retro Alarm Clock

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

This beautiful “Retro Alarm Clock” should make a most fashionable addition to any steampunk enthusiasts’ sleeping quarters! Devised by a Mr Ulrik Nielsen from Denmark, the clock is painted in appropriate brass, which, with the emarald green of the inner parts of the little machine, makes for a perfect steampunk contraption!
Please do delight Mr Nielsen [...]

Madame Talbot’s Victorian Lowbrow

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Dearest Bretheren and Sisteren:
Dr. Ding courteously invites you to gaze upon the many fine and mystical offerings of Madame Talbot’s Victorian Lowbrow™. It is a decidedy bizarre place, not for the feeble of constitution, containing many gruesome and spectral offerings for your consumption. No, not the tubercular kind of consumption. My but you are rather [...]

Art Donovan’s Steampunk Designs

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Mr Art Donovan is a most talented inventor who has been building lovely steampunk lamps for quite some time now, and clocks lately too!
This photograph depicts the crown of the “Thin White Duke,” a steampunk table lamp standing 50″ tall and measuring 21″ wide at its lampshade. It is entirely hand-made of solid mahogany, brass, [...]

Create Your Own Goggles

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

The great and random patrickwilsonmusic.com has just done us all a great favor. He took his father’s aviation goggles and has made a wonderful tutorial on how to reproduce them, including scale pattens that can be printed from the web site. Easy! & Free!
I’m sure you could have a great deal of fun making [...]