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I have never understood that expression "____has too much time on his/her hands"- What does that mean? Why do people say that?

It is an amazingly hand-crafted piece of art, the artist obviously set out to plan/build/create the thing with great skill and craftsmanship, it was not an accidental product of boredom

I often hear that said in a disapproving tone about my own work, as if the person saying it thinks that they know better than I do how I should be spending my free time.

It can be meant in a "I pity you if you have nothing better to do", but normally it's in a jokey way.

Interesting, still strange to me, but interesting. Just another English phrase that is foreign to me, and I only speak English Like the phrase "bye and bye"- it means literally, "soon".>WTF? Why say three words/syllables when you only need 1 word/syllable??

dsteingass wrote:Interesting, still strange to me, but interesting. Just another English phrase that is foreign to me, and I only speak English Like the phrase "bye and bye"- it means literally, "soon".>WTF? Why say three words/syllables when you only need 1 word/syllable??

I remember someone saying "that's the badger."
friend- "where does that saying come from?"
me- "britain"
friend- "hmm, haven't heard that one before."
me- "neither have I, but who else would it be if not the britons?"

HAHAHA, have gotten into the habit of saying "Aluminium" instead of "Aluminum"- Just because that is how they say it on Top Gear I can call the trunk of a car a "boot", but I can't call the hood a "bonnet" for some reason.

dsteingass wrote:HAHAHA, have gotten into the habit of saying "Aluminium" instead of "Aluminum"- Just because that is how they say it on Top Gear I can call the trunk of a car a "boot", but I can't call the hood a "bonnet" for some reason.

aye, to my shame I rarely say "fellow" or "chap", and instead say the american "guy", and also occasionally say "movie" instead of "film", though through sheer force of will I've managed to avoid most "americanisms"

Oh, am so going to start calling men "Fellow" or "Chap" from now on! But yeah, I couldn't bring myself to call the hood of a car a bonnet either.

Watched an episode of the american top gear once... never again... ^^

nice discussion i seem to have droped in on...

well germany sure has it´s faire share of americanisms in the language now.. as well from other "minoritiy" influences as well... some assimilate the new stuff with open arms and some...my father-in law springs to my mind...refuses to even pronounce those lend words in the correct way... so we have to hear english stuff with a sooo harsh german accent that sometimes i have to cringe...it is rather an earstrain...

by the way... hazzer...basically steampunk is what you summed up:



i think this explains a certain take to the scene... for all that have started to have a more in-depth aproach to the matter... it is like a renaissance of old meets new... new thech inn the shape and spirit of old classy materials and craftmanship...comfrort andstyle goes before function and economic concerns... also no one bothers about ecology...polution is not thought about... steampunk is more of a social point of view...some kind of way of life...and for my part...i wish sometimes it too hard to be true...all that damend plastic...i just have to look through the window...damn those are 50% plastic too...see?

sorry for the ramble^^

as for the second past time in this little thread...made some progress on the new project...it will be my interpretation of a steampunk walker... yeah...for me that just screams to be done in steampunk! so i am atm working on the compartment of the vehicle... fully encased one at that... the pics below show the shape quite good, also i hope if you are inclined to do so...when zoomed in you will see that i began to texturize the surface in a wooden fashion... i hope it is recognizable...please be as cruel as you see fit...^^
also one might notice the grey now crawling up on this structure...these recycled lenghts of sprue i have choosen for their shape...they will be later on recognizable as a steelcage around the wooden base...i have a kind of tiefighter look for the compartment in mind...


the window will have that look ...


so here are the updates...







pleae share everything you deem fit to be shared here^^ as usual^^

your humble servant, vik

I can *kind of* see where the cockpit is going, but I'll be most intrigued to see the limbs being constructed ^^

I'm liking where this is going...

aye... always the wee finger on the hurting point...the limbs... and for that matter the connecting structure for those limbs... i have to think hard to make that one up on my own...

thanks dave!

Interesting stuff vik

It MUST include exposed gears, however you do it, you can't avoid that

i have that idea for making my own gears with the holepunch even... making PC discs and then bitting holes in them by the punchset and thus making my own cogwheels... do you think that would be possible? will make some try out tomorrow... maybe it would work with a dremel even?


thanks neil^^

That sounds cool!- But you'll have to get every gear tooth perfectly straight and uniform and symmetrical to pull it off.

yeah... that is the major issue with everything i do... get it straight... maybe i have to invent a helpful device for me at first...tho if i do it holepuch way that might be easier...

I have been hoarding printer gears and bic lighter wheels for a while now myself

hmmm yeah... i still have some of that stuff on the attic...i think i have to sieve through that lot too^^

Wow, so much stuff going on in this thread! And Dave's too! I just wanted to say all of those guns and vehicles look cool. I have a real gun at home that is pretty wild. It's a Drilling. (from the German number 3), and has 2, 12 guage barrels over a 30.06 rifle barrel. I need should make one of those for 28mm scale!

I like that shotgun with the round mag though. wild!

And those super tall vehicles would most likely have some sort of steam powered thrusters on the higher decks for stabilization, right? If not, build them that way!

I really need a day job I come home and you lot have gassed on for hours it takes me ages to get through this lot and then I forget what I wanted to answer to

First to much time on your hands comes from the saying idle hands makes devils work or something to that effect, from what I can gather according to a BBC show that was on talking about British sayings (yes a whole program dedicated to that) .

Vik work so far is looking good but we do need more to make a fair and critical point of view ……. You know this so get cracking mate more pics less chatter lol .

I have to ask how you going to make that screen from scratch or nick the part from something

Steam-punk just means copper steam and a feth load of Rivets and we all love rivets


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While I remember try hassle free miniatures they do bags of clock workings bits and they are not badly priced might help you out a bit at least

D: an update omg its armagedon!!!

dsteingass wrote:Interesting, still strange to me, but interesting. Just another English phrase that is foreign to me, and I only speak English Like the phrase "bye and bye"- it means literally, "soon".>WTF? Why say three words/syllables when you only need 1 word/syllable??

you dont understand this phrase? i understand it although i dont use it at all because i take the side of it is a peice of art and thats how it gets done

American English is very utilitarian and engineer like in it's stripped down to less word usage application.

British English is still the language of bards, and hence why british blokes get so much action here in the states. Hard enough with American competitors to score a hot bird, but then you chaps from England come across the bloody pond to make it with our birds. WTF?

Just taking the Frak with our brit pals.

Face it Shas, most of the hot American birds wouldn't understand the words anyways, it's the ACCENT that does the job

^ ha, nothing like a good accent to make the day a little bit brigter! and as of seeing Blood Diamond, South African is my accent of choice

Well what can I say? ^^

Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s.[1] Steampunk involves a setting where steam power is still widely used—usually Victorian era Britain or "Wild West"-era United States—that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians might have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, art, etc. This technology includes such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the contemporary authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld and China Mieville.
Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace's Analytical engine.
Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

You have the technology...


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RSJake wrote:Oh, am so going to start calling men "Fellow" or "Chap" from now on! But yeah, I couldn't bring myself to call the hood of a car a bonnet either.

Also dont forget the trunk of a car is the boot.

shasolenzabi wrote:American English is very utilitarian and engineer like in it's stripped down to less word usage application.

British English is still the language of bards, and hence why british blokes get so much action here in the states. Hard enough with American competitors to score a hot bird, but then you chaps from England come across the bloody pond to make it with our birds. WTF?

Just taking the Frak with our brit pals.

Where about's are you based is this true I am packed and ready to go bring on the fit birds ………… hey you lot did not do to bad during the ww2 how many kids were born here because of the American invasion hell half of you have probably got relatives over here because of it

they used to say about you lot

Over paid
Over sexed
And over here

During the war ……. lol

I am really curious about the walker. What size is that piece? it is the main body of the walker? Only the sprues can allow us to figure out the scale of the piece shown.

If it is the main body piece, or the cockpit, wouldn't it be great to have a hatch, or some kind of pressurized door like those found on submarines?

I really like the way the texture is going, but I usually do it in two steps: First, I mark the likes among the wodden planks that create that surface. That helps to get the scale of the model, since we all expect planks to be of a certain size. I usually make planks of about 0.5 per 3-4 cm.
Then, I fill the planks with the irregular cuts, one plank at a time.

I am really interested about how this steampunk creature will turn out. Will it be a walker? will it be titan-sized? with Vik, who knows?

Well, Lone Dirty Dog, it could be the novelty of Yanks in England, coupled with the way we also fed the Brit war effort with lend-lease and other goodies as well as cigarettes and chocolate to boot.Plus where else to spend the money if not the dance halls and other places still not collapsed by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz?

of course I think that your spitfire pilots got plenty of action on the ground as well if you catch my meaning old bean.