Imperial steam punk....what? this time e is really dead, bones?

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**Viktor von Domm**

aye! our hardware store is rather cool about those things too...well nowadays you either be friendly to your customers or you are pretty lonley in your shop...

**lone dirty dog**

So true, but Homebase has always been like it even when no one else really was

**Viktor von Domm**

hmmm... polite and friendly and even cool retailers in the UK? sounds freaky...

**lone dirty dog**

Viktor von Domm wrote:hmmm... polite and friendly and even cool retailers in the UK? sounds freaky...

Its about the only one, and it might just be my local store thats that good

I cheated by the way Vik

I have bought some Victorian style Lamps from E bay for my SP victorian theme army

Its all down to you mate and the inspiration from your projects

Once I get a display piece together I will post, along with some WIP pics, I am working on some small dioramas at the moments but don't want to show till done

**Viktor von Domm**

and why do you call that cheating? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

and by all means... let us be informed when you are ready!

**shrike**

Viktor von Domm wrote:i was rather thinking of a small tesla tank... but then again as i have even a real small set... this could be a good option too to make more rivettos...!!!

tesla tank sounds epic- in fact, Nikola Tesla was in the process of making a tank which fired a tesla beam capable of taking out enemy aircraft from 200 miles (it's range only limited by the curviture of the earth), but died before it could be finished, and no one's managed it since because most of the data was in his head. (didn't stop the FBI taking all his stuff and locking it up, though).
I think that if you're gonna have a reason for your weapon to not have longer range, the planet it was built on not being good enough is a pretty damn good one

but yeah, tesla tank sounds interesting.

**lone dirty dog**

Viktor von Domm wrote:and why do you call that cheating? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

and by all means... let us be informed when you are ready!

Cheating because I bought them rather than try and make them

But feel flattered by all means

**Viktor von Domm**

at LDD... hehe

... well whatever fits the job eh?

and shrike... well the FBI? sure not the CIA? sounds more like their scheme...

but yeh... a tesla tank is bound to be cool^^

**dsteingass**

Show us these things LDD!

**shrike**

Viktor von Domm wrote:and shrike... well the FBI? sure not the CIA? sounds more like their scheme...

nope, t'was the FBI in it's early days (back in the early 1900's)
here's what Tesla said regarding his 10,000,000-volt death ray of pure awesomeness:
"[The nozzle would] send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation's border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks."

**SagesStone**

Of course people seemed to just laugh at him instead. Also not a tank, but I don't doubt it wouldn't eventually become mounted on one.

Nikola Tesla, one of the truly great inventors who celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday on July, 10 tells the writer that he stands ready to divulge to the United States government the secret of his "teleforce," of which he said," airplane motors would be melted at a distance of 250 miles, so that an invisible 'Chinese Wall of Defense' would be built around the country against any enemy attack by an enemy air force, no matter how large.

This "teleforce" is based on an entirely new principle of physics, that "no one has ever dreamed about," different from the principles embodied in the in his inventions relating to the transmission of electrical power from a distance, for which he has received a number of basic patents. This new type of force Mr. Tesla said, would operate through a beam one- hundred-millionth of a square centimeter in diameter, and could be generated from special plant that would cost no more then $2,000,000 and would take only about three months to construct.

A dozen such plants, located at strategic points along the coast, according to Mr. Tesla, would be enough to defend the country against all aerial attack. The beam would melt any engine, whether diesel or gasoline driven, and would also ignite the explosives aboard any bomber. No possible defense against it could be devised, he asserts, as the beam would be all-penetrating.

High Vacuum Eliminated

The beam, he states, involves four new inventions, two of which already have been tested. One of these is a method and apparatus < section not legible eliminating the need for a "high vacuum;" a second is a process for producing "very great electrical force;" third is a method of amplifying this force, and the fourth is a new method for producing "a tremendous repelling electrical force." This would be the projector, or the gun of the system. The voltage for propelling the beam to its objective, according to the inventor, will attain a potential of 80,000,000 volts.

With this enormous voltage, he said, microscopic electrical particles of matter will be catapulted on their mission of defensive destruction. He has been working on this invention, he added, for many years and has made a number of improvements on it.

Mr. Tesla makes one important stipulation. Should the government decide to take up his offer, he would go to work on it at once, but they would have to trust him. He would suffer "no interference from experts."

In ordinary times such a condition would very likely interpose an insuperable obstacle. But times being what they are, and with the nation getting ready to spend billions on national defense, at the same time taking in consideration the reputation of Mr. Tesla as an inventor who always was many years ahead of his time, the question arises whether it may not be advisable to take Mr. Tesla at his word and commission him to go ahead with his "teleforce" plant.

In ordinary times such a condition would very likely interpose an insuperable obstacle. But times being what they are, and with the nation getting ready to spend billions on national defense, at the same time taking in consideration the reputation of Mr. Tesla as an inventor who always was many years ahead of his time, the question arises whether it may not be advisable to take Mr. Tesla at his word and commission him to go ahead with his "teleforce" plant.

Such a Device "Invaluable"

After all $2,000,000 would be relatively a very small sum compared with what is at stake. If Mr. Tesla really fulfills his promise the results achieved would be truly staggering. Now only would it save billions now planned for air defense, by making the country absolutely impregnable against any air attack, but it also would save many more billions in property that would otherwise be surely destroyed no matter how strong the defenses are as witness current events in England.

Take, for example, the Panama Canal. No matter how strong the defense, a suicide squadron of dive bombers, according to some experts, might succeed in getting through and cause such damage that would make the Canal unusable, in which our Navy might find it self bottled up.

Considering the probabilities in the case even if the chances were a 100,000 to 1 against Mr. Tesla the odds would still be largely in favor of taking a chance of spending $2000,000. In the opinion of the writer, who has known Mr. Tesla for many years and can testify he still retains full intellectual vigor, the authorities in charge of building national defense should at once look into the matter. The sum is insignificant compared to the magnitude of the stake.

From here.

**shrike**

Yup.
end conclusion- Tesla was the ultimade mad scientist, like a cross between Dr. Frankenstien and Thor.

best summary of him I've ever read:
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/nikolatesla

**SagesStone**

404.

So badass he cannot be contained in just one page.

**shasolenzabi**

Tesla was ahead of his time.

Nice imagery Vik, I kept looking for the sign that said,
"Caution! Mad Scientist working! SHHHHHH!"

**Viktor von Domm**

lol...that sign would be nice but a bit inapropriate on a bunker hide...wouldn´t you admitt?

and well as i´ve in my school life sadly never heard of tesla one has to think about reality... was he really ever existing in that depictured form here or is it merely an internet hylpe of some form....

that article sure read as if we have to question his sanity... costs and power of said aperatus... well... to his defense...genius and insanity are sometimes totally overlapping

**shasolenzabi**

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol...that sign would be nice but a bit inapropriate on a bunker hide...wouldn´t you admitt?

and well as i´ve in my school life sadly never heard of tesla one has to think about reality... was he really ever existing in that depictured form here or is it merely an internet hylpe of some form....

that article sure read as if we have to question his sanity... costs and power of said aperatus... well... to his defense...genius and insanity are sometimes totally overlapping

Awww!

Tesla existed, and invented flourescent bulbs opposed to Edison's Incandescent ones. Tesla and his idea of broadcast energy would have meant no profits, so his baker,,,J.P. Morgan pulled the plug on his research, and his lab was burned as well.

**Rogue Wolves**

.. god i hate edison....

**SagesStone**

Yeah, I also remember hearing about how Edison had actually stolen some of Tesla's inventions and was more or less just really good at advertising. Tesla also more or less invented alternating current. Which saves lives if people come into contact with wires instead of direct, as you'll be thrown from the source of contact rather than stuck.

**Viktor von Domm**

hello....

well recovering from last weekends spray foam diaster i took the classic terrain building aproach to making mountains... been done that way probably for millenia...

PVA watered down to milky substance and then brushed on tissue paper which then creates texture and connects and fills gaps... hides irregularities and such likes...

here are the hills...:

and the aforementioned doorsection i did with flymesh to create a sort of interesting texture for the main door...and a swich ^^

as for tesla... well

and edison... yes indeed^^

**SagesStone**

The mesh works and the hills are delightful at the moment.

**dsteingass**

Awesome looking Vik! -Really going to town here!

Edison was not a saint, he wasn't even ethical in his business dealings, but at the time (not unlike today in the US) Corporations pretty much did whatever they wanted to with impunity. Edison was in a long. drawn-out butt-hurt battle with Westinghouse over DC vs. AC current, lightbulb patents, and even the electric chair, which met with a horrible, slow, painful death for at least one inmate.

**Viktor von Domm**

lol... thank your not_u...

i bet that this would cause some lightening of moods^^

at dave... whatever needs to be done gets done^^...all for the win^^

that was for the competition of course...

as for edison... well being a tinkerer and inventor doen´t go hand in hand to be a nice person... what a shame...

**HAZZER**

No telsa?

**dsteingass**

Well, Nikolai Tesla was kind of nuts himself, he was a germophobe, obsessive compulsive, and all the other stuff that typically comes with being a genius.

**mxwllmdr**

He was also, by some reports, likely ADD.

Hi guys, how was the weekend?

**dsteingass**

Lazy and unproductive for me, I need to put an end to that sort of slacking

**Viktor von Domm**

germophobe...for a sec i thought he was a germanphobe

and i tend to get pretty stern with hairs strewn about the place.... see...i am a genius too

**HAZZER**

mxwllmdr wrote:Hi guys, how was the weekend?

Sleping and eating...Mostly sleeping...Diden't see the light of day once...

**bubble**

Viktor von Domm wrote:germophobe...for a sec i thought he was a germanphobe

I'm a Germanphile

hehehe

stuff is looking good Vik

lots for me to catch up on

xxx

**Viktor von Domm**

mxwllmdr wrote:He was also, by some reports, likely ADD.

Hi guys, how was the weekend?

well it is over...nuff said

what was yours like??

bubble wrote:
Viktor von Domm wrote:germophobe...for a sec i thought he was a germanphobe

I'm a Germanphile hehehe

stuff is looking good Vik lots for me to catch up on xxx

so it averages out all in all^^... and welcome back to the empire^^... any nice suply drops from your trip to look forward to?