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, 30 November 2017

"We come on the orders of the Great White Queen!"

My Imperial Force As promised, here is the British and Boer forces for the Zulu war. The British Cavalry bore the worst of the damage...

Monday, 27 November 2017

"Zulus Sah! Fousands of 'em!"

Massed warriors (around 350 of them)- how a Zulu Impi should look! This is a post some 24 years in the making. Some time ago I quite enj...

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Nemo's War 2nd Ed Arrives!

A year without a post here at the blog? Goodness me, what was I thinking? Entombed in a submersible vehicle with a mysterious Captain of unk...

Saturday, 4 June 2016

Naval Hotchkiss revolving cannon

I have previously posted about the Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon ( here ) design along with pics of a nice museum piece. Yesterday I came a...

Friday, 27 May 2016

Sail Trek

In the spirit of Steam Trek ( here ) - well worth a giggle!

Monday, 28 March 2016

Melbourne's Sea Forts that never were

Proposed but never built, based on the Channel forts off Portsmouth, UK. Would have made fascinating additions to the Victorian defensive n...

Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Fort Philip

The hexagonal Fort Phillip on Windmill Hill c1891-1921 (NSW State Library) Standing high on Windmill Hill above The Rocks, Fort Phillip ...

Sunday, 17 January 2016

Dawes Battery, Sydney Cove

A Man and his 42 pdr RML Dawes Point (now under the southern pylon of the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge) was the site of the fi...

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