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I have been doing some steampunk stuff for a few months, now, and would finally like to show some of it to you guys, to see what you think.






This is my steampunk workshop, which is further along now than in the pic (it's pretty much finished, now). what do you think?


This is a picture of my unfinished goggles, which mostly just need the strap. Can anyone help me figure out how to attach an elastic strap to the black gw paint pot lids? I was thinking of using gorilla glue to attach the elastic to plasticard, then using plastic cement to attach the plasticard to the paint lids (gorilla glue doesn't work on the smooth plastic of the paint lids, but i was thinking that it could work on plasticard, if I sanded it).


This is a warjack (i forget what the name is; it is the cygnar light one with the twin cannon and the hammer) that i converted into an iron warriors obliterator.


This is a deff dread that my plague marines/iron warriors gave to the orks (in the guise of a painboss known as "Bad "Dok Bill," who always puts his patients to sleep before he starts working). He now has legs, and 4 dccw (the gun has been removed since the picture was taken).

Comments and cc are greatly appreciated... or else

Rivets would work literally for the goggle. I'd have thought seriously I'm thinking about the kind you see on old leather work especially old chairs.

Rivets, eh? I do have some copper wire, a hammer, and a bit of experience with metalwork.
What I'm wondering is whether the plastic for the goggles would break. I could always try with a spare lid, but I'll have to be careful when using the hammer...
I googled the antique chair thing, and I may do a smaller version of that, as in thinner than the handle of a gw fine detail brush. Would that work?

hello fellow steampunk enthusiast!

following your breadcrumb threadjack from dsteingass´thread i came here to say i like your soon to be ruveted aperatus...

more shots of that clockwork robot would be nice!!!

cheers, vik

Thanks, vik! I'll have to wait to take pics until at least 9 tonight (-5 gmt) as I don't have the model with me right now. I have other things to take pics of, so that will be on the list. I am farther along, now, too.

well i am looking forward to that then^^

Lo and behold! there are pics!




a steampunk bee and flower (the bee will be attatched to the flower as though he/she is drinking out of it, and the parts will be assembled as shown). Note the machine gun stinger, and bullet abdomen,




Steampunk boiler made out of clay: I made it in art class, just for fun. I painted it using acrylics.



steampunk rat spirit (or rat servo skull ) I found the skull a few years ago picking apart an owl pellet for science class. I also have a necklace with a similar skull. I may add leds to this one, eventually...



Two pictures of steampunk terminators. I will also make some with cigarette lighter parts for heads/helmets.









Et voila, the steampunk walker, commanded by none other than the magnificent Sir William Williams (aka Fabulous billy (no relation) aka bad dok bill aka lord steve) I still need to finish adding rivets. Then, it's off to the paint splatterer (as soon as I get more paint ) he has a rivet gun and riveting hammer for double the rivet power! He counts as either a daemon prince or greater daemon from the chaos list, for though he is not alinged with the actual chaos gods, he decided that he might as well ally with the red rings of death (plague marines) as they share a common goal (and a common love for technology )

somehow your update escaped me...i know for sure i have subsrcibed to yon thread...

well anyways^^

that steampunky flower and bee "diorama" is a very nice touch... also one has to admire the use of actual brass and other metals...i like the look of both...that will be a nice artpiece.

soryy...not much is to be seen due to the pics of the ratskullhead...too much out of focus for me to comment atm on that one...

the boiler specially looks good due to the nice glowy effect of the furnace inside...!!!

the marines...well...i am not too sure about the big tooth (?) on one shoulder...the drill looks good...did that too recently on some steamknight marines i never yet finished...tho i dunno if i see here a paintjob at all? looks very crazy for me...?

as for the walker...i really like the concept...the rivets i am sorry to say all look wonky and mismatched... i would suggest redoing them if i were you... the hammer is freaking huge^^ was that a torch? tho i think it is cool looking i still feel it is a bit too big for that walker tho...

what i really would like to read here is what you used as bitz and pieces for the walker...btw...the pilot looks like a very good choice!

cheers, vik

Thanks for the support, vik! Not sure if i would want to remove the rivets: I am pretty much done, now (after i took the picture), and i don't have much else to use (though if i find some small beads or something, I will replace the current rivets with those.) Maybe I won't paint it until i can find some decent rivets
Anyway, as for the parts I used; I'm not sure if I know all of the parts that I used. I'll try: you were mostly right about the torch (booklight, to be exact), connected to bit from' an ork wrekkin ball, which in turn is connected to a flint gear (?) from a cigarette lighter (I don't smoke, I just pick up the metal trash of those who do), which is connected to a cylindrical bit of unknown origin (and a piston made from non-gw sprue), which is then, finally, connected to a cut up ork power klaw. The body is made out of a paint pot, with styrene posing for wood (i'll probably paint it metal, because the grain has been covered in superglue). The "face" is a clock face, with chaos spikes for hands, and a gear on top, with two lights for eyes (one is from a missile launcher, the other is from some military model kit.) I riveted the black part of the paint pot in the style that i would like to you se for the whole thing (cutting 3mm beads in half, then gluing them on), but I can't find enough beads (probably lost in the warpstorm in my room ) the hatch is from a rhino, and the guy on top is from the vintage miniatures bin at my flgs (75 cents!!!). he originally had a gun, but i cut it off, and used a toothpick for the pointing finger (I cut it shorter since the pic, so that he didn't look like he had a footlong cuban cigar ) i have no clue what the smokestack is, but i think it might have been from some sort of pen. the gears on the back are just that, from old watches. The other arm is from a mechwarrior mech, as are the legs. the rivet gun, however, is made from some vcr (?) part, probably from a button, and the tip is a piece of aluminum tube. the loincloth looking thing is from the chaos vehicle sprue, and the girder that he is stepping on is a piece of sprue.
Wow, I didn't think that I remembered all of that! The paintjob on the terminator is so naff because i didn't have all of the paints that i needed for the scheme. I just wanted to test it. I'll touch it up when i get all of the paints. The "tooth" is actually supposed to be from some space elephant, or something, and is a remnant from when I first built my nurgle terminators, and didn't have enough shoulder pads. I don't want to remove it, as i still don't have any extra termy shoulder pads
If you liked the bee, you should see the steampunk soldiers that i made out of metal parts recently! they were so fun to make, and have a bit of a playmobil kind of style to them (mostly the leg area and the head). I will have to take pictures of them one of these days

Cheers!

of course i would like to see the steampunksoldiers! who wouldn´t!!!

as for the elephant tooth... don´t remove it...did i say so? havens forbid... if choasy looking terminators aren´t allowed to wear bigger than themselves accesoires on their gear then we are in deep trouble!

if you want some help with rivets...well...we are the riveteers after all^^.... cheap and slightly bigger ones you get from those round bitz form sprues... you know those bigger points...?

or you could go the holepunchset route, or the rod slice them off rivets route...or for really quick and easy made rivets...just use PVA glue and create very small dops that will cure to form rivets for you...

after mentioning the pointy finger i saw it too... at first i must have taken it for a gun...^^


cheers, vik

Here are the steampunk soldiers! along with the second terminator.



Steampunk soldier: he may be small, his gun may be smaller, but he will be only one of many, so beware!




Steampunk juggernaut: he is about twice the size of the steampunk soldier, and five times more heavily armed
probably only one one of him, though.

I am in the process of making a commander with a vehicle/command platform (which will be part steam train, part tank, and part battle chariot), so stay tuned for that.





And steampunk terminator number 2. Do you think that the head is too cartoony? I am not sure that i like the look, and I think that input is needed to make a decision.

By the way, the first two are not for warhammer, they are just random things that I made for fun, and they will not be painted, so they are finished (i still need a way to stabilize them though, I am thinking washers. what size washer would I need for the big one (considering that he is completely metal). Or should i somehow make some out of wood? I'm guessing that that would be too unstable though.
'Till next time!

that first steamsoldier looks really cute! nice idea and a cool choice of matrials... does he stand stable? the spring actually suggests unwanted movement?...

the lighter shoulderpads for the heavy solder look very convincing! the only nitpick i have to give here is the barreltip... it is lopsided and should be straigtened...

for supporting...hmmm... i beta bigger base from thin wood...then heavyly laddened with thicker washers would be a good idea... several washers tho as i think these could do with a sort of scenic base...just a washer would look too less...

by the way... what do you use for sticking things together? the bare metal looks a bit corroded...? just your schtick or what?

i think the terminator head looks good...tho cartoony as you stated... what i would change is get rit of that topping...the green and white stuff on top... yes he is kinda bigheaded but i guess that´s the charm of the mini really! by the way...the head will look substantially different once primed...and primed it should be as i don´t think using regular paint on that slippery metal would work...!


cheers, vik

and boy you have a nice bunch of creative juices inside you!

Neither of them stand stable yet, but wood sounds like it could work, I think.
I will have to see what I can do about that barrel, I"m pretty sure that I could just remove it and reglue it (it may destabilize the piece, plus I am out of the epoxy that i used).
The reason that the metal is corroded is because I found it that way Yep, almost all of the material I found on the ground, barring stuff like the perforated metal, the wire, and the tube.
The green and white stuff on the terminator's head is to cover the top of the lighter, otherwise one could see through the top of his head, and beyond that, the ground
Thanks for the compliments. by the way.

i am a scavenger myself! so getting your stuff from the streets or the junkyard! yay!

get more materials and keep on going mister!

Well, what I really need to keep going is more epoxy, as they didn't have the cheap kind at hobbytown; I got a t-34/85 kit instead for epic. I have tons upon tons of materials, though, including some that i am saving for use as the aforementioned steam tank.

oh yeah... do a steamtank...! i love these... and i am not afraid to nick your ideas

Nick away!

No, i did not post this just to say that, if that's what you're thinking


Steam tank. I was going to do treads, but I realized that it would have driven me insane so I just added what was originally going to be the suspension, and may think of adding tracks once my sanity is no longer an issue (any time, now...)


This is my dragonfly. I am giving it to a local antique/collectible shop to sell. I need to make the "flying stem" sturdier, as it kind of broke (I'm thinking of drilling a hole into the bottom of the dragonfly, and gluing the stem to that, but i'm not sure if that would work, as all I have is a dremel, and i don't want to damage the dragonfly further)


Steampunk spider. I almost hope that this one doesn't sell! It is one of my best works in this medium so far. I'll always have pictures, though, and those are enough for me.

Coming (somewhat) soon: mortar, gunslinger, based soldiers, and possibly more soldiers. Until then, this is Glomscient, signing off (though not logging off, i hardly ever do that)

You've got some really cool stuff here Glom! Nice use of the bic lighter wheel too!! What is that great mesh with the round holes?


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I really like the bricks and the floor in the shed/building too!

Thanks! The mesh is from a valentines day chocolate box (though I would imagine pencil holders and the like would be more likely sources, look in staples, or something: it could be found there (tell me if it is )

As for the goggles, you need hard points, not glue if you are going to add an elastic band to it. Otherwise you'll go to put it on your head and it will break.

My new avatar should show you how i fixed that problem

Also, I just took pictures, so here they are:









This is what I have finished so far for the steampunk soldiers. next, the wip's



These still need work. The big one is another juggernaut, while the smaller ones are more soldiers.

Hope you like.

hey glom... about time i took a look at your recent update... yesterday my pc crashed somehow my browser is mean to me...?

the spider truly looks wonderful...with stuff like this you could actually sell your works via ebay without any problems i bet...

the dragon fly is a nice gem... what is the body/tail made of?

and as for the steam engine... have you thought of using bicycle chains (the transport means) like these:


for the use of the tracks? if you have the proper tool i bet this would look great with your style...

all in all this model already looks very promising!

cheers, vik

Thanks, vik! I have a bicycle chain that I tried to cut, but I couldn't even cut it with a razor saw. Anyone know how to cut the stuff?
Edit: oh, and the dragonfly is made out of some electrical bit, and the tail... not quite sure.

oh... got nijaed by your next update!!!

those soldiers look so cute! remind me of some sorry looking robots...like


from the movie the black hole...

woth pieces like the mortar you truly have created something new for the genre! their pose is really cute yet with a spin to the sad looking! i really like that!

the two lil twins made from those winged screws are a good example of your ideas... a most unique way to exress your cool creative skills!


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i would maybe use a steal saw... you get that in some hardware shop... your diamond saw would probably get ruined soon by the attempt...

Thanks! I haven't seen that movie, but I see the resemblance.
By a steel saw, do you mean a saw that is made of steel, or a saw specifically for cutting steel? My dad may have something like that, otherwise I could go down to the hardware shop next week to pick one up (though I would need to find the chain first...)

well i would test your dads tools first ... in a good sorted workstation you are bound to find something like that rather easily! and it is special hardened steel that the saw is made from... designed to gnaw its way through the topmost dense stuff like...er...steel^^

buying a new one i would deem a bit on the expensive side tho...


and well the movie is as classic as scifi you can go^^

oh no..bike chains are made of tempered steel, you aren't going to cut or break those with anything short of diamond tipped blades man.

I found the chain. Not a whole lot of good that''ll do me, being unable to cut it and all stupid bike part makers
Anyway, time for more pictures!



Steampunk fighter plane: ready for takeoff. Does anyone know what I used for the wings (back and front)? Because I don't.


Timetable . I was bored


Steampunk Juggernaut mk II. He has a hand cannon, and a hat.



Steampunk Soldier mk III. He has a flamethrower. Also, like the juggernaut, he also has a hat.


Steampunk tank mk II. The tracks were what I was planning on using for the first one (don't worry, though, plenty more where that came from [found it on the side of a road ]).

And now for something only marginally different (which is something completely different from what you're probably used to hearing, hopefully )

lol.... the dragin father...very cool...

the tank... now this is a cool looking shape... can you show the track material in the unbended form? would be nice!

and of course do your fighters need to wear hats... you gotta protect yon head!!!^^

the timetable prooves one thing... boredom is nothing we have to be afraid of... those with an ounce of creativity in us will take this as oportunity time^^ get bored more often as this is very cool looking...

and the fighter plane has you back on track with cuteness... lovley piece right there... and no... i can´t tell what the wings are made of... best guess is metal but nothing further...

Very cool stuff man! The wings look like a metal latch maybe?