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« Reply #25 on: April 20, 2011, 05:28:58 pm » |
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What do we want? Decapitations!
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« Reply #26 on: April 20, 2011, 05:30:25 pm » |
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A steampunked atl-atl, assisted by a spring mechanism.
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« Reply #27 on: April 20, 2011, 08:38:33 pm » |
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A steampunked atl-atl, assisted by a spring mechanism.
 An atl-atl launcher for mini Congreve rockets. Atl-atls are not know for their accuracy but as the saying about horseshoes and hand grenades goes.... http://www.atlatls.com/atlatls_descriptions.html |
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« Reply #28 on: April 21, 2011, 06:34:16 am » |
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I like it.
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« Reply #29 on: April 23, 2011, 02:06:56 am » |
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The retractable staff in Andromeda just jump in my mind. watch at 00:18 to 00:20:
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« Reply #30 on: April 23, 2011, 06:27:00 am » |
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How about studying the ancient cultures of the old British empire? India, Africa, China and such and use these weapons. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vimanas/esp_vimanas_11c.htm Here's a good source to start with. You can use the idea of the intreped explorer who returns with this ancient and hidden knowledge. |
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« Reply #31 on: April 23, 2011, 06:54:09 am » |
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How about studying the ancient cultures of the old British empire? India, Africa, China and such and use these weapons. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vimanas/esp_vimanas_11c.htm Here's a good source to start with. You can use the idea of the intreped explorer who returns with this ancient and hidden knowledge. Now those images lend to all kinds of great primitive steampunk weapon ideas! |
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« Reply #32 on: April 23, 2011, 07:04:02 am » |
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Tis this era that made such discovery good sir. And easily made into a genlemans weapon.  |
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« Reply #33 on: April 23, 2011, 01:32:13 pm » |
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In "Alan Quartermain and the holy fower" I seem to recall some wielding of copper spears. Not to mention an a rather amusing bit where he sets a local witch doctor's hair on fire with a mirror and a "burning glass"
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« Reply #34 on: April 23, 2011, 06:28:54 pm » |
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My wonderful Mum has just handed me a crossbow (toy) now im gonna steampunk it.
Wooden stock and explosive warheads spring too mind, any other suggestions?
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Ananias S. Wildwire at your service, for a price of course.
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« Reply #35 on: April 23, 2011, 09:15:40 pm » |
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I've always thought a whip laced with copper wire and some sort of energy source would make a good weapon
"steampunk taser?"
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« Reply #36 on: April 23, 2011, 09:37:40 pm » |
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That's the reason I thought Madd might be some kind of primitive weapons expert.
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« Reply #38 on: May 06, 2011, 03:02:29 am » |
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most bit of work Ive done on primitive weapons was designing a sheath for my seaxe, Which while not professional work has served me well during my wildernes outings as I tend to use it as a machete and hatchet... which is appropriate as it is kinda the bastard son of a machete and hatchet. |
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« Reply #39 on: May 06, 2011, 12:58:53 pm » |
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most bit of work Ive done on primitive weapons was designing a sheath for my seaxe, Which while not professional work has served me well during my wildernes outings as I tend to use it as a machete and hatchet... which is appropriate as it is kinda the bastard son of a machete and hatchet.  Can we see it out of the sheath? |
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« Reply #40 on: May 07, 2011, 03:13:36 am » |
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most bit of work Ive done on primitive weapons was designing a sheath for my seaxe, Which while not professional work has served me well during my wildernes outings as I tend to use it as a machete and hatchet... which is appropriate as it is kinda the bastard son of a machete and hatchet.
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« Reply #42 on: May 07, 2011, 07:10:53 pm » |
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It looks very much like a Kukri The venerable weapon of the Gurkha! HP |
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« Reply #43 on: May 07, 2011, 11:57:53 pm » |
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It looks very much like a Kukri The venerable weapon of the Gurkha! HP I beleive he was talking about the weapon that is behind and laying with the Kukri. |
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« Reply #44 on: May 08, 2011, 12:37:51 pm » |
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Indeed. I was misled by the first picture; the handle does in fact belong to the other.  HP |
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Grymm
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« Reply #45 on: May 08, 2011, 12:54:20 pm » |
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A steampunk blowpipe.....isn't that an air rifle? Air powered guns turn up for military and sporting use in the 17thC & 18thC, the earliest air gun is dated 1580! Housed in the Royal Armouries in Sweden, something I really want to see. Girandoni Military Repeating Air rifle was just that, a magazine fed air rifle in service certainly from the 1780s This one is 1775  Similar date on this but with the air resevoir in the butt  |
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« Reply #46 on: May 09, 2011, 05:25:58 am » |
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Lewis and Clark carried one out west.
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« Reply #47 on: May 09, 2011, 07:20:56 am » |
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France used the air gun extensivly during it's war's. In fact, when the enemy captured a French solider with an air gun, it was summary execution.
One of the things with primitiv weapons, is that they're mostly improvised. A sharpened tree limb into a spear; or a knife (stone or metal) tied to the end. A simple flattened and rounded river rock placed into a mitten or sewn into a tube of cloth. Fish bones into hooks, and if lucky a spine from a lion or cat fish with poison gland still attatched. You should study the weapons of Samoa, this would help as well. In this area let your imagination run wilde.
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« Reply #48 on: May 09, 2011, 02:43:20 pm » |
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Primitive and wonderfully impractical - a rifle/crossbow design type of shotgun slingshot fires six 20mm steel balls simultaneously. markf |
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« Reply #49 on: May 09, 2011, 05:03:15 pm » |
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I like that design.
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