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| Colonel O Truth | 17 May 2011 4:36 a.m. PST |
Hi all. I'm designing a new four-legged walker along the lines of my two-legged one link but I can't decide whether to go mostly wooden (Napoleonic 'Lacepunk') or iron and rivets (VSF) Any suggestions? This is just for fun – I have no games in mind for it. |
| Allen57 | 17 May 2011 5:15 a.m. PST |
You have done one mostly wood. I would do an iron one for variety. |
Frederick  | 17 May 2011 6:13 a.m. PST |
Four legged? Iron and rivets for sure – more durable! |
| Broadsword | 17 May 2011 6:30 a.m. PST |
Iron and rivets. Al | link |
| abdul666lw | 17 May 2011 10:23 a.m. PST |
Something in the style / that would visually associate with the airboat in the next 3 Musketeers 3D: YouTube link
A movie where Richelieu seems to enjoy wargaming! link
The main challenge would be the decoration of the hull
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| J Womack 94 | 19 May 2011 9:34 a.m. PST |
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| abdul666lw | 20 May 2011 8:29 a.m. PST |
To go with the walker, I suppose something like this (imagine tricornes instead of Napoleonic shakos) would be over-ambitious? YouTube link
YouTube link The idea is to have the equivalent of the 'Cloudships of Mars' link but -to keep a 'Lacepunk' rather than 'Steampunk' look- still requiring a balloon to lift the hull / gondola… If you don't want to develop a full 'Cosmos 1745' background, remember the Pacific Ocean was largely unexplored by then: add a hole in the Van Allen belt / magnetosphere or whatever allowing the 'Aether Winds' to reach the ground of the 7th Continent there. Over millions of centuries the 'Aether Winds' transmuted some aluminium salts into cavorite, in turn accumulated by endemic trees in their cell walls (-> 'Lightwood', *provided* it's activated by the Aether Winds); while maybe a 'plant felt' from the pulp of this same wood, incorporated into the balloon envelope, absorbs the energy of the Aether Winds, which can be channeled to contribute to the buoyancy & / or propulsion?
Thus you can have a 'Lacepunk' setting on good old Earth, without any risk of the technology spreading outside a restricted area and turning all war(games) everywhere into 'VSF in tricornes'. And you can have the Maidenhead 'Babes that time forgot'
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link among the natives… |
| Colonel O Truth | 23 May 2011 3:52 a.m. PST |
Think I'm going VSF for 28mm but might build a squadron of French Napoleonic walkers for 10mm too. |
| abdul666lw | 23 May 2011 6:04 a.m. PST |
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| Colonel O Truth | 11 Jun 2011 1:47 p.m. PST |
Not quite sure how to respond to that, Abdul…. |
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Napoleonic 
¿10mm….? 
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