"Is This Time Machine Victorian, Pulp Or Something Else?" Topic

For a long time, I've wanted to make a shuttle-like time machine (for a small group of 6 Victorian travelers – including Mrs. Watchett!), but didn't know where to begin:

Well, I got tired of dwelling over it and decided to put something together. So, with bits of stuff I already had on hand, I've put together this initial phase:

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Hope you like it so far.

However, I'm not too sure which direction to go now, mainly because I'm not too sure what periods it fits best. Is it still Victorian? Is it Pulp now? Something else entirely?

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Thanks.

Dan
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Depending on how you paint it, I think it would fit any period, I like the idea of being able to transport larger groups :D

I like it so far!

HG Wells is considered Victorian, but the story has been placed in several different times, including present day.

Victorian is a time era. Pulp I think is just after that era. So I guess it depends on how your travelers are dressed.

Really, why does the classification matter since its a time machine.

Now place some sort of fantabulous bling fixture in the middle for the power source and a couple of levers for controls.
Something like this painted brass would look good.
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Magnets might be cool too.

Ooo, nice!

That makes me think of Tesla coils:

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Dan

Here Dan see what you think of this.
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or this
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Large crackled marbles!!!

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Dan

You said it was for 6 Victorian travelers, so (shrug) it's Victorian.

Victorian but the advantage is it can be whatever you want depending on when they visit

It could start as Victorian, be "rediscovered" in the Pulp era and even wind up in a antiques store in the 70's or '90's or today.?
As with Stargate:- built long ago but used "today".
Maybe possibly prone to being reverse engineered to wind up in Caveman times?

Please do include that most elemental piece of equipment for a cup of brown joy, a char brewing contraption.

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along with a drinks cabinet.

Very nice build. Inspirational. That is gorgeous.

I thought Victorian is a time period and pulp is a writing style/publication type. Even though pulps were popular in a later time period, I was never under the impression that they limited themselves to contemporary stories. So it would seem possible to use Victoriana in a pulp style adventure.

Maybe I'm wrong.

Either way, dig the vehicle your working on. Looks great for double duty as a time machine or a hover platform.

Martin

>>I thought Victorian is a time period and pulp is a writing style/publication type.<<

It's a time period as well. The period when pulp magazines were published. Around WW I or a bit earlier until the last pulp magazines, movie serials, radio dramas, "B" movies, classic comic strips, existed. About the mid 1950's.

Shadow: "You said it was for 6 Victorian travelers, so (shrug) it's Victorian."

So, you think it still looks like it fits that period?

Dan

needs some feet on it, like a old timey bathtub.

>>So, you think it still looks like it fits that period?<<

In it's unfinished state, it has a kind of Jules Verne/HG Wells look to it, but sci-fi pulp magazines, as late as the 1940's, still featured rocket ships and other gizmos that would have looked correct in the Victorian era, so I suppose that you could use it for either pulp era or Victorian.

Depending on how you paint it,

Absolutely; bare wood with red surrounds, and maybe some gold fittings screams VSF, whilst silver-grey and black would pull it into Pulp in my imaginings.

Doug

Doug,

"bare wood with red surrounds, and maybe some gold fittings screams VSF" sounds easy enough.

But, as Bashytubits suggested above, I still need some sort of control panel and an additional doohickey piece of machinery (engine?) to propel my "time shuttle".

QUESTION:

By the way, since it is meant to transport a group of passengers, how does "time shuttle" sound to you? Or how about "time carriage"?

Dan
PS. As for the bathtub legs on my machine, I thought the one in the 1960 film was more sled-like. See 1:40 into this clip:
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Time Perambulator?

deflatermouse: "like a old timey bathtub." – the original hot tub time machine

Is Chronambulator a word? And would it mean some sort of time vehicle?

Thanks,

Dan

Chronomobile.

Oo I like!

Thanks,

Dan

Build her like a steam launch; the passengers sit on tufted leather settees within a saloon, while the pilot tends to the works outside.

Ron

Dan, you're very welcome, glad you like the monicker. It looks great so far and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it turns out!

…I still need some sort of control panel…

Suit yourself; I'd put a bridge telegraph in the center. Top it with a handle made from clear plastic and brass beads, as an homage to George Pal's dingus.

Doug

"put a bridge telegraph in the center"

Bridge telegraph?

By the way, I think my machine is going to look like this contraption, but with a much wider platform:

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Dan

So this is what a "bridge telegraph" looks like? Wow.

Great idea, Beast!!!

Thanks,

Dan

Guys,

I'm still digging in my pile of junk, but these are some the items I've found so far for my engine parts:

Here is an interesting angle of the machine made for the 1960 film:

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Dan

You'll notice the controls cylinder looks like an elongated "bridge telegraph" and the handle, important in the movie as our hero pulls it off the machine to make sure no one else runs off with it, looks a bit like it could be made of "clear plastic and brass beads"

Edit: And, in your open, standup version, the controls would appear best right in the center.

Doug

Paul McGann as the eighth Doctor

If the controls were central, with the operator standing to operate them, I for one would not be able to resist the Doctor Who influence. Who is to say whether the first TARDIS might have been an open-topped affair?

Ron

Vest, the coif, brass on wood…

Doing it's best to make itself irresistible, no? ;->=

Doug

Thanks. Oh, you mean him!

Dan

Referring to the image, and therefore the Tardis console for your project, but you can interpret as you please… ;->=

I did want to point out that your image with the Metal Gallery, curses be the name Hobby Lobby, cylinders matched with a large round/faceted bead would, thought HUGE in 28mm, be about what I had in mind for the control rod that Rod used.

Doug

Michaels carries a lot of findings that are clearly designed to be 'steampunk' and among them are small globes, gears, bulbs and the like

Thanks, Einar, but as my gf can't drive, I'm a regular at Michaels.

Note, not complaining!

Most of those specifically steampunk are oversized, but as Dan knows too well, I'm a believer in beads used for many things, especially native jars and storage vases.

Doug

Beads and cheap plastic "slinky" coils are going to be my friends!

After I make the machine, I'll start with the underground:

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This will be fun to make too, much later:

Dan

Great idea to do a game based on Time Machine.

In Victorian times, the writing style is Penny Dreadful.

I have always thought that Copplestone Yeti made good Morlocks.

Those look absolutely stunning!

Dan