Land Ironclad model release is imminent...

...according to Steve at Brigade Models, the release should be announced next week!

Read about it here:
http://theminiaturespage.com/news/talk/msg.mv?id=199665

Mayhem in Paper

For most of us, these will be the wrong scale. But perhaps your navigation today will take you for a visit to this shipyard:

http://www.mayheminpaper.papermakeit.com/
Squirmydad%27s_Madness/Downloads.html

A selection of 1/600 scale VSF paper models will be found there.

The Zeppelin Destroyer : being some chapters of secret history

by William Le Queux (1864-1927)
published in 1916

This book reflects Le Queux's paranoia during the war years with British national security at grav risk, and the potential utility of secret services in furthering the aims of 'total industrialised warfare'.

Read it online here:
http://www.openlibrary.org/details/zeppelindestroye00lequuoft

Its listed with other great books featuring dirigibles here: http://spot.colorado.edu/~dziadeck/airship/fiction.htm

I have just learned of a movie planned for a 2010 release. For an early visit to Venus, go here: http://www.piratesofvenusmovie.com/index.html

Mssr V goes a-hunting

Not to be outdone by random crytomundians, Mssr Vanavlak has made an initial foray into uberlarge game hunting:

A long-started model completed. A dino (Compsognathus? Can't remember) and a tough (the latter is an old model; the former just finished). The dino comes from an attractive set of 5 dinosaurs and a very bic croc from Tamiya - quite cheap but nicely detailed. The tough is obviously ex-Necromunda.

Krazniy Oktyabr

...things just got a bit complicated on the Russian side!

A new Ironstars project by Vanvlak Industries

Krazniy Oktyabr, modified with Tsiolkovsky type 2 drives and taken over by the Communist insurgents.

Cryptomundo

This is an adventurous tale of a man in a fedora in pursuit of living dinosaurs (Mokele-mbembe), three-toed primates (Dodu), and his next mission.

http://cryptomundo.com/

He has even written a book on the subject:

The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep(NY: Tarcher/Penguin, 2003)http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585422525/ref=ase_cryptozoologi-20

As a late, well known countryman of mine would have said: "Crikey!"

WOTW - Radio broadcast

The original WOTW radio broadcast is now on YouTube with a CGI backdrop!



http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=aonl

On Shooting the Moon...

Although it does not pertain to painting in any scale or wargaming (apart from the most indirect of comparisons), I'd like to share with the community here something our host Tas and I have discussed at length in private chats.

The following is my first video post to YouTube. I believe viewing and sharing improves all our chances of seeing a rational centrist in the White House. Please reserve comments for the YouTube channel, instead of here — but share it as widely as you can, please.

http://youtube.com/profile?user=ThomTruelove

A Visit to the Moon

another piece of classic Astronef style fiction, from 1899!

A Visit to the Moon
by George Griffith

An Account of the Adventures of the Earl of Redgrave and his Bride on their Honeymoon in Space:

Well, we shall see a good many marvels. and, perhaps, miracles, before we come back, but I hardly think we shall see anything that is forbidden. Still, there's one thing we shall do, I hope. We shall solve once and for all the great problem of the worlds--whether they are inhabited or not. By the way, he went on, "I may remind your ladyship that you are just now drawing the last breaths of earthly air which you will taste for some time, in fact until we get back!

http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602321h.html

Visitors from around the world

This week marks 2 months since I started the hit counter here at WWS (purely out of interest) and I must say that with 7500 hits so far I have been astounded.

What you may have also missed is that at the bottom of the left hand frame there is a Mapper which shows where traffic originates. Out of interest, I have been taking a snapshot of this traffic map every two weeks and it showed some very interesting results.

After 2 Weeks

After 4 Weeks

After 6 Weeks

And after 8 Weeks

So thanks to everyone who has visited WWS and and especially those who have left us comments - we appreciate it!

Robur the Conqueror

Robur the Conqueror

by Jules Verne

Alternate English titles include "The Clipper of the Clouds", and "A Trip Around the World in a Flying Machine"

This book, published in 1896, is one of THE top Aeronef classics.

If you havent read it yet, stop whatever else you are doing and click here:

http://www.classicauthors.net/Verne/Conqueror/

The Airship is Coming!

A really interesting site by the Danish Post and Tele Museum in Denmark, who has published a wonderful online exhibit about zeppelins

http://www.postogtelemuseet.dk/zeppex/en/enFront.html

Martians, cylinders and green flashes in the sky

Scientists are only now getting the evidence to prove what we already know...Mars is inhabited!!!

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-directories/3-civilization/civilization-directory.htm

And are these the holes that remain after theose terrible projectiles were fired with a green flash?

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070928.html

UUULLLLAAAAA!

Vulcania Submarines...

Vulcania Submarines...

for all your "Extraordinary Submersibles and Diving Equipment" needs, including vintage scuba gear, Nemo's helmet, a working underwater Nemo Rifle and the Journal of Professor P. Arronax!

http://www.vulcaniasubmarine.com/