Yours in a White Wine Sauce!

Adventures in Victorian Science Fiction & Steampunk with ramblings about Aeronefs, Dirigibles, Land Ironclads, Anarchists, Dinosaur Hunting, Terranefs, Aquanefs, Mad Scientists, electric contraptions and steam conveyances. It may not make sense, but there will be claret and a nice cheese board at the end. Tally-Ho and "Vôtre dans une sauce au vin blanc!"

Thursday, 22 January 2015

The Anniversary of the Passing of the Great White Queen

On this day in 1901, her beloved Imperial Majesty, Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, Empress of India and Defender of the Faith passed away....

Monday, 19 January 2015

The Heat Ray comes to life!

I was looking for this today and thought I had reposted it here - it certainly needs to be so here it is! Courtesy of the TMP boards and th...

Saturday, 10 January 2015

Steam Trek: Where no dapper chaps have gone before

"I say chap. Do beam us aboard your aether flyer, post-haste." R eposted for everyone's enjoyment from: ...

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

General Adrian Carton de Wiart

Its been awhile since we had a "Gentleman of Renown and Infany" (click on tab to see other entries) but I just had to share this f...

Wednesday, 31 December 2014

Happy New Year!

Wishing you all a Happy New Year! May 2015 bring you happiness, health and lots of time to indulge your hobbies!

Sunday, 28 December 2014

Lord Coxswain: The Man, The Myth, The Muttonchops

Lord Coxswain is a mysogonistic xenophobe of the great-white-hunter-who-shoots-everything trope and is thus hailed as 'undoubtedly Ear...

Friday, 26 December 2014

What Santa Brought

A delicious grab bag of goodies for yours truly & son under the tree this year - far better than a lump of coal! You can see a definitel...

Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Merry Christmas!

Warm Yuletide wishes to all! 1907 Artist's impression of what Santa would be driving a Century later I hope you've been good...

Thursday, 18 December 2014

Tsuba Miniatures

I just came across these lovely Russian and Japanese figures of RJW era, made by Tsuba Miniataures in Germany. Just perfect for Victorian/E...

Tuesday, 16 December 2014

War Plan Red: Part 5

Thanks to Steve Blease, who recently blogged this video related to War Plan RED which I did a series of posts a few months ago.

Saturday, 13 December 2014

Medal of Arbitrary Self-Importance

All I can say is... I Want One for Christmas! The Society for Interplanetary Cooperation and Cross-galactic Overindulgence held its an...

Thursday, 4 December 2014

A new Aerostat from Tobsen

Tobsen77 miniatures (who make all sorts of steampunky goodies - see here ) have released a new model for the discerning aeronaught. Smaller...

Monday, 1 December 2014

Steam Powered Tanks

I came across this thread at the World of Tanks forum (via the Space 1889 Yahoo Group), which has some very interesting pic of development...

Monday, 24 November 2014

For Queen and Planet!

For Queen and Planet: The Imperial Wars of Earth and Mars, 1845-1930 -- Simple Victorian Sci-Fi/Colonials mass combat rules! I spied thi...

Friday, 21 November 2014

French Nefs re-released

Those chaps at Brigade Models have remastered their French Charlemane class Battlecruiser Aeronef and recast them with different variants of...

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