Steam Punkers.. please read.

kylash used the same font I was using to build mine! :)

Love the metal effects in the logo you made. That would look good on a shirt!

Now I gotta find a different font . . .

More soon!
 
I would love to share my work but at the moment I have the designs tied into a possible license deal ! I am EXTREMELY excited by this.........
I will share as much info as possible when its 'secure', but I can confirm I am having a meeting/pitch with a famous UK manufacturer in two weeks time.
The license has been confirmed, (subject to contract however!).
Two of my models are in the hands of another US company for quotation......hopefully for 1:1 diecast repro.
having just spent £40 ($80) on a StreamBoy book, I will certainly have this thread up for inspriation!
CC.
 
Steam Boy was pretty cool. I enjoyed that. My wife and I are disciples of the great God Harper Goff... a true renaissance man and designer of the classic Disney Nautilus Submarine for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Below is a re-posting of the "Nemo Raygun" I made her for X-mas a few years back.

-G
 
CustomCreations said:
liking this!
Care to tell how you made the top barrel ? wherte did you source your greebles etc?
Cool!
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Well, most of it is scratch-built. There are lamp finials on the top thingie... its not really a scope, per se. Its a tube with a clear tube inside it like one of those old scientific readout things. Except it has a string of techno-junk like a large filiment inside it running the length.

The transparent purple bit is actually a little accessory from a bathroom set. They were cast polyester, so I used it as a "glass energy refinement chamber". It also has some stuff inside including the top of a Seattle Space Needle souvenir and a big plastic crystal piece from some old toy building set.

The handle and the cradle to hold the "sight" are all laser-cut plexiglas. The handle is three pieces of 1/8" plexi sandwiched together so I could make a trigger on the middle section by just having it as part of the artwork for the middle layer.

Most of the rest of it is turned on the lathe in my shop. The end cap that has the octupus sculpture on it was done by me out of Apoxie-sculpt as were the little set of seahorses running around the piece in the front area.

Something not seen in this shot is the final handle treatment. My wife didn't like the open handle. I thouht it was pretty cool, but she didn't, so I made a set of mahogany grips that fit in the middle and then embedded the sheild and the "N" in them.

Oh yeah, the little filigree junk all came from Michael's Crafts out of their scrapbooking and jewelry section. I don't shop at Michael's any more though... I don't get along with chain owner's politics and I've chosen to stop supporting him (and his swiftboating buddies) with my dollars.

The new guns I'm making (it'll be a pair!) are mostly found-object stuff. A LOT of brass from the local thrift stores. Sometimes it's more work to try to make pre-existing stuff work together than it is to simply custom turn the parts myself! I should ave been done with these guns days and days ago. I worked for 12 hours straight yesterday and still didn't get them all finished up.

I'm gettin' slow in my old age! LOL...

-Gordon
 
AAAAAARRRRRRRGH!

Its just so frustrating to run up against barriers to progress. Like time. And materials.

I'm so itchin' to get them done, but tonight I have to take the cat to the vet and yesterday I was on-set with a photo shoot until 5 pm and then had to head directly home because the wife needed the car.

Not to mention the 12 hours I spent on Sunday were not contiguous. Had a passle of other stuff to get done in the middle like meeting with several people and working on "real work" related stuff.

Grrr.

I'm so anxious to get these things finished up! And there's still work beyond the actual "gun" itself to do... I'm planning to make "Aether Cartridges" that slot into the back of the gun like large bullets. I'm making 4 for each gun so the owner can have one in the chamber and three in a little leather carrier.

Yup... I'm not cheaping out on these. I want them to be uber-cool.

-Gordon
 
Read about my goggles here!

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Is anyone else having trouble connecting to the Brass Goggles site? For the last couple of days it's been like that for me... :(
 
Yes.. the site has been down for several days. And just after I joined too! :(

Hope it's back soon! I have lots of things to share!! :)

-Gordon
 
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