Archive for January, 2008

Making your own Steampunk/Pulp Rayguns

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

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Pieter wrote to point out this video by the Backyard FX team on how to make your own Steampunk Rayguns (inspired by the incomparable Weta Rayguns) with second hand and found parts - while each raygun will be unique (as they ought to be) it gives a nice overview on how simple and cheap it [...]

Dances of Vice - The Steampunk Festival Approaches

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Just a quick update to give some more information about the upcoming (10 days and counting) Retro and Steampunk two day festival in New York - the Dances of Vice Steampunk Festival, 8th and 9th of February, 2008.  Firstly, there will be prizes awarded to the best dressed revellers - categories including Best Victorian Gentleman, [...]

Victorian Exobotanical Containment Device

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

If the 19th Century truly had provided the Victorians with means and method to travel to Mars, then there’s no doubt in my mind they would have brought along an exobotanist or two to catalogue the new and exciting plant life of the red planet.  Perhaps they would have initially been reduced to bringing back [...]

Steam Powered Iron Man Suit

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

The character Iron Man, from the Marvel Comics universe, has usually been more of a pulp or dieselpunk sort of gentleman - with the upcoming film showing various versions of the powered suit that gives this hero his name - and set usually during the 1960’s to the 1970’s and onwards.  The tale of a [...]

Steampunk Star Wars Lego Contest

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

You may have already heard that the ‘From Bricks to Bothans’ forum are hosting a contest to see who can create their own Star Wars inspired, Steampunk styled, Lego creation!  The contest is running for the entirity of January, but entries won’t be officially considered until the 20th, but already the boards are filling up [...]

Gaslight Justice League Models by Sillof

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Mr Sillof is a skilled modifier and scratch-builder of scale figures - specialising it seems in characters from film, comic and book.  The above image shows his recently completed Justice League (from the DC Comics range) as seen through the Gotham by Gaslight view.  Gotham by Gaslight was an alternative history comic where Batman is [...]

Unklian’s Steampunk Furnace Mouse

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Over at the Steampunk Forum, Unklian recently showed his most magnificient Steampunk mouse mod!  With wonderfully detailed and forthright photographs and descriptions on how he went about making it at his site, you’ll see how he made a glowing, ember-filled furnace for this wonderful Babbage accessory device.  However, it seems that Unklian has been bitten by the [...]

The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Illustrated Novel

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Son of a watchmaker, and now secretly living behind the walls (and clocks) of an old Parisian train station, Hugo Cabret makes a discovery that surely any Steampunk fan would envy;  he finds an old, broken automata from the collection of Georges Melies (he of the Trip to the Moon fame) and with clockwork knowledge [...]