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This week's challenge is to celebrate Steampunk and the age of Victorian sci-fi, where airships and steam power exist alongside 19th century versions of more modern developments.
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Fraser has joined the Moomins., Wed 26 Aug 2009, 22:06)
I wasn't planning anything big when I started, but I got carried away a little
(Click first for wallpaper big (widescreen))
Based on concept art at:
www.fictionscience.com
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Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Mon 31 Aug 2009, 3:04, More)
Couldn't find images so drew it
hope you likes the first barcode system
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The Twisted Omentum vidi vici veni, Sun 30 Aug 2009, 21:15, More)
Now ^^that's the kind of taxi I would fork out 30 quid for a 5 minutes journey.
Oh sod it' I wasn't going to repos this for the compo but what the heck....
My grandad died in summer 1984, So I don’t remember him that well. I knew he fought in WW1, but he kept most of it to himself. All I did know was that he signed up at 16 and joined the Nothumbrian Fusiliers and saw action at Passchendale. It was when I helped my parents move house that my dad showed me these, along with the little diary granddad had kept while he tried to survive in that mess of blood and mud.
He had never taken a photograph before in his life, but Spuddy Redpath, had found a camera in the what was left of a Chemists shop in the ruins at Mesines and granddad won it off him at cards. The next day the reinforcements were brought up from the rear, rumour had been flying round that some special new machines where being brought up that would finished the Hun here, and start the breakout across the Ypres salient.
When they arrived they where a bit of a shock, 3 great metal men, made by Armstrong-Whitworth in Newcastle. The army designated them Autonomous expeditionary force (AEPs) But the lads soon christened them Tom, Dick, and Harry. Strong as 20 men each they where! They helped pull the tanks out of the mud at Poelkapelle, other than that we didn’t know what they could do. On 31 July they got their chance and went over the top in the assault at Pilckem ridge. Harry took a 12lb shell to the chest in that one, Geordie Jackson said he looked like a popped mine boiler, with springs and cogs all inside him.
Tom, and Dick stood guard for the next 3 weeks waiting for the Bosch counter attack that never came. That was all through the rains that turned the ground to mud, and the mud to soup.
Tom, slipped off of one of the duckboard walkways and sank into a shell hole, they said he must have sunk down some 20 foot or more never to be seen again.
Granddad, got his last photo, on the 26 September, when his battalion, went over the top to take Polygon wood. He said he saw Dick run straight across no-mans land that chest cannon of his popping all the while, him and the rest of the lads came up behind him onto the trenches at the edge of the wood. Dick had ploughed straight through all the Bosch machine gun posts. Granddad never really like eating meat much after that, and what he saw that day meant he could never abide the sight of liver or kidneys….
The last they saw of Dick, was him crashing into the German positions right at the top of the ridge never to be seen again. Of course when the top brass saw what he had done that day they hushed it all up saying it wasn’t really a British way to go about fighting a war.
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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 19:22, More)
Which veritable Gentlemen can you telephone... Devillish Apparition Removers!
/Q. and Extremely D, but it's Friday
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The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 16:36, More)
Ning!
Click for BIG
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BubaMan 3 conspiracy nuts walk into a bar... Coincidence?, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 8:41, More)
A spiffing new contraption curtosey of Mister Jobs.
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ms morbo lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 12:11, More)
One is the Law, what what
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drbroon abloooobloobloo, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 12:22, More)
his teeth need cleaning
drawbacks include a massive block and tackle to lift the thing and a hundred weight of coal in the bath
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amoebaboy chose for death by unga bunga on, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 11:26, More)
Designed by Burke & Watt, of Birmingham. The R1pp3r butchers automations worked in the abattoirs of the East End
It was a faulty unit, that went absent from its slaughter house post at Smithfield's Market, and undertook a killing spree round the streets of Whitechapel in 1888.
Click for bigger (375 kb)
( The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 2 Sep 2009, 10:46, More)
Needs more Beethoven..
Apologies in advance: It should be called 'Mechanical Citrus', but that lacks a certain spiffy something - even if it is a more accurate description..
( Captain Howdy, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 20:47, More)
Steampunk (This challenge is now closed)This week's challenge is to celebrate Steampunk and the age of Victorian sci-fi, where airships and steam power exist alongside 19th century versions of more modern developments.
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Fraser has joined the Moomins., Wed 26 Aug 2009, 22:06)
I wasn't planning anything big when I started, but I got carried away a little
(Click first for wallpaper big (widescreen))
Based on concept art at:
www.fictionscience.com
(
Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Mon 31 Aug 2009, 3:04, More)
Couldn't find images so drew it
hope you likes the first barcode system
(
The Twisted Omentum vidi vici veni, Sun 30 Aug 2009, 21:15, More)
Now ^^that's the kind of taxi I would fork out 30 quid for a 5 minutes journey.
Oh sod it' I wasn't going to repos this for the compo but what the heck....
My grandad died in summer 1984, So I don’t remember him that well. I knew he fought in WW1, but he kept most of it to himself. All I did know was that he signed up at 16 and joined the Nothumbrian Fusiliers and saw action at Passchendale. It was when I helped my parents move house that my dad showed me these, along with the little diary granddad had kept while he tried to survive in that mess of blood and mud.
He had never taken a photograph before in his life, but Spuddy Redpath, had found a camera in the what was left of a Chemists shop in the ruins at Mesines and granddad won it off him at cards. The next day the reinforcements were brought up from the rear, rumour had been flying round that some special new machines where being brought up that would finished the Hun here, and start the breakout across the Ypres salient.
When they arrived they where a bit of a shock, 3 great metal men, made by Armstrong-Whitworth in Newcastle. The army designated them Autonomous expeditionary force (AEPs) But the lads soon christened them Tom, Dick, and Harry. Strong as 20 men each they where! They helped pull the tanks out of the mud at Poelkapelle, other than that we didn’t know what they could do. On 31 July they got their chance and went over the top in the assault at Pilckem ridge. Harry took a 12lb shell to the chest in that one, Geordie Jackson said he looked like a popped mine boiler, with springs and cogs all inside him.
Tom, and Dick stood guard for the next 3 weeks waiting for the Bosch counter attack that never came. That was all through the rains that turned the ground to mud, and the mud to soup.
Tom, slipped off of one of the duckboard walkways and sank into a shell hole, they said he must have sunk down some 20 foot or more never to be seen again.
Granddad, got his last photo, on the 26 September, when his battalion, went over the top to take Polygon wood. He said he saw Dick run straight across no-mans land that chest cannon of his popping all the while, him and the rest of the lads came up behind him onto the trenches at the edge of the wood. Dick had ploughed straight through all the Bosch machine gun posts. Granddad never really like eating meat much after that, and what he saw that day meant he could never abide the sight of liver or kidneys….
The last they saw of Dick, was him crashing into the German positions right at the top of the ridge never to be seen again. Of course when the top brass saw what he had done that day they hushed it all up saying it wasn’t really a British way to go about fighting a war.
(
The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 19:22, More)
Which veritable Gentlemen can you telephone... Devillish Apparition Removers!
/Q. and Extremely D, but it's Friday
(
The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 16:36, More)
Ning!
Click for BIG
(
BubaMan 3 conspiracy nuts walk into a bar... Coincidence?, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 8:41, More)
A spiffing new contraption curtosey of Mister Jobs.
(
ms morbo lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 12:11, More)
One is the Law, what what
Click for bigger (67 kb)
(
drbroon abloooobloobloo, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 12:22, More)
his teeth need cleaning
drawbacks include a massive block and tackle to lift the thing and a hundred weight of coal in the bath
(
amoebaboy chose for death by unga bunga on, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 11:26, More)
Designed by Burke & Watt, of Birmingham. The R1pp3r butchers automations worked in the abattoirs of the East End
It was a faulty unit, that went absent from its slaughter house post at Smithfield's Market, and undertook a killing spree round the streets of Whitechapel in 1888.
Click for bigger (375 kb)
(
The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 2 Sep 2009, 10:46, More)
Needs more Beethoven..
Apologies in advance: It should be called 'Mechanical Citrus', but that lacks a certain spiffy something - even if it is a more accurate description..
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Captain Howdy, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 20:47, More)