Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
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« Reply #150 on: June 19, 2009, 10:11:40 pm » |
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Actually, a punked up take on Art Deco would be very interesting.
Mad science meets Tiffany lampshades.
Now there's a thought.
Not to mention the fact that Tiffany Lampshades would make a great name for an Edwardian Bond Girl.
Dr. Q
p.s. If they were made of iron, would they be Haemeroids?
Tiffany Lampshades- an American relative of our own Sir A Poiselamppe, perhaps? And would one acerbate haemeroids by sitting on iceteroids? |
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Dr cornelius quack
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« Reply #151 on: June 19, 2009, 10:31:55 pm » |
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Or the Rubber Rings of Saturn.
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Construction of illegal outdoor Privvys on common land a speciality. Our customers always come back.
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Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
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« Reply #152 on: June 19, 2009, 10:34:47 pm » |
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I think I'll leave Uranus out of this one...
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« Reply #153 on: June 19, 2009, 10:50:58 pm » |
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I would flippin' love an Art Deco take on a spaceship liner! And yes, the parlance is 'comet'.
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Dr cornelius quack
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« Reply #154 on: June 19, 2009, 11:12:17 pm » |
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Yeah! Yeah!
But you could see a comet from miles away. A great silent space iceburg, drifting through the intersteller void would be much more menacing.
And colliding with a comet would make for a very short film.
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Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
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« Reply #155 on: June 19, 2009, 11:45:20 pm » |
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Imagine, if you will, an ancient accretion of ice and debris, floating in the void, it's surface covered in the blackest carbon, rendering it optically invisible, it's large mass but relatively low density making it all but invisible to the unsophisticated long range detection equipment of a Neo-Edwardian Starliner... "I know I ordered some ice, but this is ridiculous!"  |
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Dr cornelius quack
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« Reply #156 on: June 20, 2009, 12:01:29 am » |
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Especially if the man at the masthead hasn't been issued with his binocular space goggles.
Who knows what strange lifeforms may have evolved on the surface of such an object.
Sentient cocktail umbrellas?
PENGUINS....IN.....SPAAAAACE!
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« Reply #157 on: June 20, 2009, 06:36:54 am » |
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Mmm. I want. Art Deco is cool. Plus space...
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« Reply #158 on: June 20, 2009, 10:42:56 am » |
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Every thing is better in Space. Did I mention space? SPAAAAAAAAACE
Ok ok I'll stop. Gotta say Dok, I now want to see it complete.
Ps: Spaaaaaaaaaaace
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When I joined up we were still fighting colonial wars. If you saw someone in a skirt you shot him and nicked his country. "Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." Get all your Goggle needs here New Goggles |
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« Reply #159 on: June 20, 2009, 01:35:40 pm » |
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Herr Doktor
I have a quick request before you go off on the next melt my face project. Would it be possible to get one or more high resolution pictures of the Celestial Sphere for a desktop wallpaper? Most impressive work.
john
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« Reply #160 on: June 20, 2009, 03:17:01 pm » |
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Every thing is better in Space. Did I mention space? SPAAAAAAAAACE
Ok ok I'll stop. Gotta say Dok, I now want to see it complete.
Ps: Spaaaaaaaaaaace
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« Reply #161 on: June 20, 2009, 04:23:47 pm » |
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that looks awesome! you should start selling what you make if you don't already. there are alot of people here who wouldn't mind owning that...  |
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Until the arrival of that hour
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« Reply #162 on: June 20, 2009, 05:50:59 pm » |
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What do you think? Does a Neo-Edwardian, Art Deco Liner mesh with Steampunk, or am I sailing my ship alone?  Oh, I assure you, everyone but me would hate that, so once you're done, you can send it to my home address which will be sent your way via private IM....  Who am I kidding? You could probably make a steampunk nose hair trimmer, and we'd all be lined up waiting to gawk at it.... |
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Dr cornelius quack
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Arrant Carney. Phmebian Cultural Attache.
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« Reply #163 on: June 20, 2009, 06:16:30 pm » |
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What do you think? Does a Neo-Edwardian, Art Deco Liner mesh with Steampunk, or am I sailing my ship alone? Oh, I assure you, everyone but me would hate that, so once you're done, you can send it to my home address which will be sent your way via private IM.... Who am I kidding? You could probably make a steampunk nose hair trimmer, and we'd all be lined up waiting to gawk at it.... He's probably out in the shed buiding the napalm tanks already. |
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Sir A Poiselamppe
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« Reply #164 on: June 20, 2009, 09:17:58 pm » |
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Actually, a punked up take on Art Deco would be very interesting.
Mad science meets Tiffany lampshades.
Now there's a thought.
Not to mention the fact that Tiffany Lampshades would make a great name for an Edwardian Bond Girl.
Dr. Q
p.s. If they were made of iron, would they be Haemeroids?
Tiffany Lampshades- an American relative of our own Sir A Poiselamppe, perhaps? And would one acerbate haemeroids by sitting on iceteroids? A second cousin of some sort ...they went into trade I believe.... I seem to recall a 2000AD story featuring a space liner fatefully named the Titan first class or Titan1c as she was known... Oh dear .... Stunning concept and execution on your Sphere BTB I thought the train welded to the tower a wonderful touch. |
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« Reply #165 on: June 24, 2009, 05:23:50 pm » |
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I love the "Tiffany Lampshades." Might have to recommend that to a friend as a character name...
I've been meaning to ask, in what scale is this lovely made? The ship I mean, not Tiffany.
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Dr cornelius quack
Rogue Ætherlord
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« Reply #166 on: June 24, 2009, 07:11:31 pm » |
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Hmm! If the constantly threatened 'mainstreaming' of steampunk happens, then I may go into business selling suitable names to bandwagon jumping noobs. I could sit at home copyrighting names and personas all day and make a fortune.
In the meantime, I'm glad you like it, it's yours for free.
The orb is built on a scale of 1 : WOW!
As are all of the good Herr Doktor's creations.
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« Reply #167 on: June 24, 2009, 09:32:44 pm » |
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What do you think? Does a Neo-Edwardian, Art Deco Liner mesh with Steampunk, or am I sailing my ship alone?
Now that you've shown us all, you've got a moral imperative to finish it. Honestly, could you live with yourself if one of us died suddenly, never knowing how it turned out? |
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« Reply #168 on: June 24, 2009, 10:01:41 pm » |
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The Celestial Sphere looks quite wonderful, sir, which is to say I wish I could make a model look less than half that good and I think it's imagination fuel par excelance! ^_Q As to the ship, I quite enjoy art deco myself, and think it would look grand. I seem to recall a 2000AD story featuring a space liner fatefully named the Titan first class or Titan1c as she was known... Oh dear ....
Ah, 2000AD? I had to look it up, I assumed you meant the Douglas Adams game which dates from somewhere around 2000AD if not a couple of years before.... Aha, 1998: http://www.starshiptitanic.com/ |
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Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
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« Reply #169 on: June 24, 2009, 10:17:44 pm » |
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Ah yes, the 2000AD 'Future Shock' that featured a star ship called the 'TITAN-1-C', which had a rather disasterous encounter with a comet... Scale? Well apart from Dr. Quack's complimentary estimation, it's a bit all over the place: the Sphere itself has doors for 1/60th scale figures, ladders scaled at 1/50th, and railings at 1/100th scale, the launch platform has 1/100th scale railings and steps, and the shunter being HO/OO scale, is either 1/87th or 1/76.2, depending on which you prefer... ...a quickly worked out average makes it 1/74.25, so I'm going to call it 1/72nd scale, perfect to stand next too a set of spitfires! |
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« Reply #170 on: June 24, 2009, 11:11:23 pm » |
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Excellent! 1/72 it is!
To me that's one of the private joys of kit bashing/scratch building models -- this thing is the scale I say it is! You can take a wacky cannon bit, set it next to one figure and add a few details to make it a machine gun. Change the details and put it next to a much smaller figure and suddenly its heavy artillery!
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Mr. Ethan Grammatikidis
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« Reply #171 on: June 24, 2009, 11:50:32 pm » |
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Sir, surely you mean you worked it out to an average of 4/297th scale? Or that OO scale is 5/381sts? For science! </pedant> Edit: Okay so I'm jealous of your modelling skills. Sue me. |
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« Reply #172 on: July 13, 2009, 01:24:50 pm » |
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A true vision of beauty sir!
Though I fear I may catch my skirts when scaling the uprights!
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« Reply #173 on: July 13, 2009, 01:48:22 pm » |
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your celestial sphere both astounds and inspires me.
i now wish to build one big enough to live in.
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and doesn't Mr. Kipling make exceedingly good cakes.......
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MadlyPunk
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« Reply #174 on: July 13, 2009, 06:57:05 pm » |
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That really is extraordinary! And your photography skills really do it justice.
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Your junk is my inspiration
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