Brokeneagle
Master at Arms
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Hello Sci-fi ers,
it has come to zero hour so I will throw in my weird little story for this sci-fi dio.
Time, place, ? could be 20th century but could be 19th, might not be this reality.
A war has come and gone, and the remains of the violence and destruction still stain the eastern half of the once great Gothic capital. Gaslamps light the streets at night and their flickering, sickly yellow haze try their best to bring some saftey to the darkness that prevails in this end of town. Rumours have it that some evil malevolence has been born under one of the old defence gun's - Battery 17, but the levels of radiation spent in that area to push back the inhibitors to the outskirts, has rendered it a forbidden zone to all but the most hideously deformed. A lone figure has been reported to be living at the gun site, along with what seems to be a kind of living technology, born from the mutating environment and feeding on the machine of war; changing it, reforming it from within to become..............
"That's all that was left in the diary sir. Couldn't make out the rest, it's too damaged. I'll have Jenkins run it down the river to the professor, he will be the only person who can get any more from this carbonized mess."
The Captain replies:"OK, just get back here before dark. You know how the Inhibitors favour the far bank at dusk."
Ok so there you have it, a strange Gothic tale yet to be told. This Nightmarish vision has been looming for a while through the idea of a post apocalyptic dio set on a river bank in a destroyed city. This will be quite a large dio that will involve a BR52 as the central theme. I have coined it 'THE JETTY DWELLERS'.
This then led me to come up with a few outlying ideas for this world so I could use some other models within this theme such as the MIG Prod KV2X. I also wanted this world to be a little confusing using some WW2 style stuff, Nuclear war but combining this with an old 19th century feel with a touch of Mad Max.
I then found the Smog figures. These are 1/35 scale figures from a 1888 London setting that is not quite right and not quite on our time line. There is also a website for theis type of thing called Steampunk. A grand but nightmarish place of great imagination.
Anyway, I hope that you get it so that you can appreciate my own special form of Steam punk.
I have used a Smog Figure called Dr Proteus Treves who is the smog equivalent of a kind of Hunchback Elephant man. The moulding is super crisp and the sculptor is one of the best I have seen as he gets the character across beautifully. The figure is quite large and probably about 6 1/2 to 7ft tall.
I have used the remains of my doomed Karl Gerat /Dragon version that was smashed and replaced with the trumpeter one. I have kept the pieces and the intact gun cradle for such a nightmare as this.
I will be painting this scene as a night setting with just a gaslight to through off highlights and shadows. I have wanted to try this idea out for a while and have been thinking about how to go about it. I will discuss more when I get to the painting stage but suffice to say that this will be the hardest paint job I have ever attempted but probably (If all goes well )the most exciting.
I have purchased a couple of new bags of modeling clay and my spare parts box is spilling over so lets just run with this and see if it works.
THE TROUBLE WITH KARL
So here is my starting point - a Karl Gerat cradle and gun already built with some scratch work - the rest will need to be created.
THE FIGURE
Gizmology parts
I aquired some packs of springs and sci-fi parts for robots when I was in Japan in Feb.They will help. I will get some more when I go Back.
Hello Sci-fi ers,
it has come to zero hour so I will throw in my weird little story for this sci-fi dio.
Time, place, ? could be 20th century but could be 19th, might not be this reality.
A war has come and gone, and the remains of the violence and destruction still stain the eastern half of the once great Gothic capital. Gaslamps light the streets at night and their flickering, sickly yellow haze try their best to bring some saftey to the darkness that prevails in this end of town. Rumours have it that some evil malevolence has been born under one of the old defence gun's - Battery 17, but the levels of radiation spent in that area to push back the inhibitors to the outskirts, has rendered it a forbidden zone to all but the most hideously deformed. A lone figure has been reported to be living at the gun site, along with what seems to be a kind of living technology, born from the mutating environment and feeding on the machine of war; changing it, reforming it from within to become..............
"That's all that was left in the diary sir. Couldn't make out the rest, it's too damaged. I'll have Jenkins run it down the river to the professor, he will be the only person who can get any more from this carbonized mess."
The Captain replies:"OK, just get back here before dark. You know how the Inhibitors favour the far bank at dusk."
Ok so there you have it, a strange Gothic tale yet to be told. This Nightmarish vision has been looming for a while through the idea of a post apocalyptic dio set on a river bank in a destroyed city. This will be quite a large dio that will involve a BR52 as the central theme. I have coined it 'THE JETTY DWELLERS'.
This then led me to come up with a few outlying ideas for this world so I could use some other models within this theme such as the MIG Prod KV2X. I also wanted this world to be a little confusing using some WW2 style stuff, Nuclear war but combining this with an old 19th century feel with a touch of Mad Max.
I then found the Smog figures. These are 1/35 scale figures from a 1888 London setting that is not quite right and not quite on our time line. There is also a website for theis type of thing called Steampunk. A grand but nightmarish place of great imagination.
Anyway, I hope that you get it so that you can appreciate my own special form of Steam punk.
I have used a Smog Figure called Dr Proteus Treves who is the smog equivalent of a kind of Hunchback Elephant man. The moulding is super crisp and the sculptor is one of the best I have seen as he gets the character across beautifully. The figure is quite large and probably about 6 1/2 to 7ft tall.
I have used the remains of my doomed Karl Gerat /Dragon version that was smashed and replaced with the trumpeter one. I have kept the pieces and the intact gun cradle for such a nightmare as this.
I will be painting this scene as a night setting with just a gaslight to through off highlights and shadows. I have wanted to try this idea out for a while and have been thinking about how to go about it. I will discuss more when I get to the painting stage but suffice to say that this will be the hardest paint job I have ever attempted but probably (If all goes well )the most exciting.
I have purchased a couple of new bags of modeling clay and my spare parts box is spilling over so lets just run with this and see if it works.
THE TROUBLE WITH KARL
So here is my starting point - a Karl Gerat cradle and gun already built with some scratch work - the rest will need to be created.
THE FIGURE
Gizmology parts
I aquired some packs of springs and sci-fi parts for robots when I was in Japan in Feb.They will help. I will get some more when I go Back.