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, 13 August 2015

Early Machine Guns

To add to my earlier posts of real life VSF period weapons, I offer the following early model machine guns: Colt model M1895 Machine Gu...

Saturday, 18 July 2015

Flying Airfield takes off!

Brigade has released a new Nef, and a monster it is! Today we’re unveiling a new Aeronef model, and our largest to date in this range. The...

Saturday, 11 July 2015

Nemo's War - Art Sneak Peak

The artist for the forthcoming release of the second edition of VPG's Nemo's War has released some sneak peaks of some of the artwor...

Thursday, 11 June 2015

The Never Were Ships catalogue

Found this brilliant collection of old B&W drawings of Italian ship designs which has some great ideas and inspiration for one's Aqu...

Monday, 1 June 2015

The Expedition must continue!

I haven't shown much artwork around here lately, but I really like this one which is titled "The Expedition must continue!" ...

Saturday, 23 May 2015

USS Nautilus and the Nemo connection

I recently had the opportunity of visiting the US Navy's Submarine Museum, which includes the historic ship USS Nautilus : the world...

Monday, 18 May 2015

It's Nautilus What You Think

If you missed update on the new edition of Nemo's War , here it is off VPG's website. I'm really looking forward to this! http...

Thursday, 14 May 2015

Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon

Second in this series of period machineries of death... A step up from the Gatling Gun (see here ), which fired small arms ammunition, thi...

Friday, 8 May 2015

Mr Gatling's Patented Revolving Battery Gun and other fun

In recent mont hs I've visited more than a few places in which historical artefacts are stored, so I have taken the opportunity to take ...

Thursday, 30 April 2015

Zeppelin attack routes

I was perusing some of the many fantastic tomes at the library this week and found a great German account of WW1 Zeppelin raids on Britain w...

Sunday, 26 April 2015

Percival Lowell's Globe of Mars

Percival Lowell was an American businessman and astronomer who founded an observatory in Arizona in the late 19th century. He was convinced...

Friday, 24 April 2015

The Centenary of ANZAC

Today is ANZAC Day and this year marks the 100th Anniversary of the Allied landings at a small place in Turkey that nobody in Australia an...

Sunday, 12 April 2015

Basing for Land Ironclads

I saw this very impressive array of 2mm Napoleonic armies over at the excellent "Lead doesn't Bleed" blog today and it got me ...

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Review: CSS Appomattox

CSS Appomattox by Chris Stoesen Amidst the slaughter of the American Civil War, recognition of the South by both France and Great Brit...

Friday, 3 April 2015

Austro-Hungarian Salzburg Class Carrier

Jack M recently posted some pics of this lovely Austro-Hungarian conversion, which he has named the Salzburg Class. I am quite taken w...

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