More Aeronef Artwork

Follow this link takes you to a page of a guy who has been collecting steampunk style artwork. These heavily feature Aeronefs and similar craft, all by a number of authors around the web

http://thecoconutguy.deviantart.com/

I particularly like this one (despite it being a sketch only) which was inspired by the Warlord of the Air series:



Warlord of the Air by ~RonnyRonin on deviantART

More Ray-Guns and antique weapons

Up there with the Weta range of steampunk zappers are these great gadgets from Kropserkel creations

An online workshop gallery of some of the world'smost elaborate costumes and props.This site demonstrates examples of our creative efforts to enhance, distort, and conceal the human form inand for all media. Our 10 year showcase includes original Kropserkel creations and painstakingly accurate reproductions of objects and characters from popular media.

I would also have to say that the idea and concept of a Captain Nemo light sabre (shown below) was both original and awesome!

http://www.kropserkel.com/propguns.htm

And thanks to the boys at "VSF and 15mm Wargaming" for the heads up and link!

Special Moments

For once, this is not a VSF post. Instead, I would like to share a special wargaming Dad moment.

I have been trying to get hold of some if the great WW1 Wings of War minis (1/144 scale) but they are rather scarce. Then along comes a top bloke called Luis, aka Cuban Commissar, who buys some from his local shop and ships them to me (thanks again mate!). When they arrived this week my 6yr old son helped me open the box. He pulled out one and said:

"This looks just like Biggles's Sopwith Camel!"

And indeed he was holding a Sopwith Camel! What a proud moment for a wargaming Dad :-)

Steampunk X-Wing

My friend Luis found this great bit of steampunk crossover art on the net and sent me the link - I think its just stunning. Its by 'amoebabloke' at deviant art who says simply 'this took me aprox 5 hours start to finish'.

Great work amoebabloke!


steampunk x wing version 2 by ~amoebabloke on deviantART

http://amoebabloke.deviantart.com/art/steampunk-x-wing-version-2-65508931

"Cryptomundians"

Its seems I caused a minor stir by coining this phrase the other day...
In any event, fellow cryptomundians seem happy with the new label!

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/cryptomundians/


BTW this is the 3ooth WWS post!

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