Neo Phyte
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Post by Neo Phyte on Mar 31, 2018 5:03:09 GMT -5
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John Everett
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Post by John Everett on Sept 7, 2018 9:24:55 GMT -5
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Post by Leon on Sept 7, 2018 15:04:58 GMT -5
New version is looking good John!
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Neo Phyte
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Post by Neo Phyte on Sept 7, 2018 15:22:59 GMT -5
Great show of adapt and adopt. The wheel house is brilliant. Looking forward to seeing how the exterior turns out. I like the way your creative imagination manifests into something that others can enjoy looking at. Bravo.
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Post by tiking on Sept 8, 2018 14:01:28 GMT -5
A masterpiece in the making!
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Post by Steve Zuleski on Sept 8, 2018 21:14:22 GMT -5
Looks like this masterpiece is going to take over your shop John. Good to see this is pluggin along.
Cheers, Ski.
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moramarth
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Post by moramarth on Sept 12, 2018 22:38:48 GMT -5
It's good to see you getting back to this theme, and making progress. It's definitely your own take on the theme, the bits I've found online of the graphic novel version of "Clockwork Angels" don't seem to have anything like it. I did find a quote (in a review) which would appear to explain your insistence on wooden boxes in the deck cargo:
“The big ship pulled up to a special dock, large enough to accommodate three normal barges. Crates marked with alchemical symbols were stacked high on the deck, some covered with tarpaulins to protect against the rain and sea spray; other boxes were open to the elements. One of the dockworkers told him that the more valuable substances were locked in the hold behind steel bulkheads, where they were prevented from engaging in unauthorized chemical reactions, which were the sole province of the alchemical-priests. Nature could not be allowed to take an accidental course.” If this is a description of "Rocinante" she would appear to be a bigger vessel than you are allowing for unless she carried one or more Tenders to offload cargo and passengers to destinations too small to accommodate her; the model you are building would be ideal for one of those. Initially I had been thinking "Rocinante" might be the steampunk equivalent of Ian McQue's "Remora", something along the lines of a Clyde Puffer, but the above description suggests something a bit bigger. It sent my mind back to my early teens, and a lovely old Victorian Public Library I used to frequent. You entered a large square room at one corner, it had a high ceiling and was lined with bookshelves to head height, and above those large windows. Where you entered was a quarter-circle desk facing into the room and acting as a "hub" from which other bookshelves radiated: in plan the whole would have resembled an IJN "Rising Sun" ensign quarter. To finally arrive at my point, two of these radiant bookshelves were half height, and carried glass-cased builder's models of locally-built coasters or colliers from the late 19th Century. I believe an airborne version of these would be ideal for a "big" version of "Rocinante", but - alas - their size would make a 1:35th scale version impractical. The library interior is long lost to "modernisation" and I have struggled to find an equivalent to what I remember but surprisingly there is a full-size survivor which resembles them: SS Robin... Please note the enclosed wheelhouse on the fore bridge is a refinement not all of the vessels originally possessed.
"Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days, With a cargo of Tyne coal, Road-rails, pig-lead, Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays."
Regards,
M
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