Various Airships
January 6th, 2010 Don M Posted in Arts and Literature, Flyers, Mad Scientist and Inventions, Our VSF Campaign Comments Off
Tsar1701: Steamtank ‘HECATE’
December 11th, 2009 Bill Posted in Back Of Beyond, Figures and Modeling, Landships, Mad Scientist and Inventions Comments Off
From Those Likely Lads On The Lead Adventure Forum!
Gatling Gun
October 28th, 2009 La Coloniale Posted in Mad Scientist and Inventions, Military History, The Americas Comments Off
In 1861, Doctor Richard Gatling patented the Gatling Gun,
a six-barreled weapon capable of firing a (then) phenomenal
200 rounds per minute. The Gatling gun was a hand-driven,
crank-operated, multi-barrel, machine gun. The first machine
gun with reliable loading, the Gatling gun had the ability to
fire sustained multiple bursts.
NARSTY SURPRISE II !
October 15th, 2009 Don M Posted in Announcements, Dino Hunting, Mad Scientist and Inventions, Not To Be Confused With History, War Games from the Net Comments Off
WE crossed a very rugged, very high range of mountains and descended throughrolling , forested hills to a vast grassy plain that stretched to the horizon.the grass was taller than a man most of the time, which limited visibility andincreased the danger of encountering something large, hungry, and on the huntas we hacked our way through it at a snail's pace. it also made setting up campa supreme bother for our askaris, servants, and porters as the grass had to becut down in order to make a clearing for the camp site, before camp could be setup!
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CARRUTHERS and i were sitting on our bums in a small, freshly cleared area,refreshing ourselves from our dwindling stock of gin, and cleaning our rifles(our gun bearers were busy setting up camp at the time). as usual, CARRUTHERS was going on _endlessly_about the life and times of CARRUTHERS in the bellowingvoice of his as he worked, while i was doing my best to not to hear the samestories for the umpteenth time.I had just re-assembled my RIGBY express rifle; as I wiped a light coating ofall over the barrels, CARRUTHERS was holding the barrels of his own expressrifle at arms length, squinting down same at the lands and grooves, looking for rust, corrosion dirt, etc. suddenly his monocle popped out of his eye, andhis mouth dropped open in consternation. he tried to say something, butappeared to be at a loss for words (a very uncommon state of affairs!)."wots up, ole boy?" I asked pleasantly, as a shadow got between me and the sun.I naturally assumed it was GREYSTOKE returning from his hunt for our dinnermeat.I was answered by the mother of all hissing and felt a blast of foul air that reeked of a carrion pit blowing into my shoulders and the back of my head.startle, I twisted around, and found myself gawping into the maw of this (seeenlarged photo of the skull cracker bird at the lower right corner of the page):http://www.dragonbloodminis.com/shop_sunless.htm
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needless to say, i did the only thing a gentleman hunter could possibly do insuch circumstances. I leaped to my feet with a terrified squawk, then blazed atrail through the tall grass, rendering it slippery behind me, in an attempt toput as much distance between me and the beast as I could in an extremely shorttime!bless him, CARRUTHERS instinctively reacted to our dire tactical situation likethe old campaigner that he was, and lit at a gallop in the opposite directionfrom mine.apparently our choice of tactics worked, as the giant bird just stood therelooking amazed as it twisted its head first in my direction and then in CARRUTHERS direction. This allowed the astounded GREYSTOKE, who was returningempty handed from the hunt an opportunity to bag the beast with his .500 NITROEXPRESS, both barrels.all is well that ends well, I always say!after the askaris of GREYSTOKE's hunting party tracked CARRUTHERS and myselfdown (some distance from the campsite!), they escorted us safely back to camp,our entire expedition feasted upon the giant predatory bird that GREYSTOKE hadshot.
DAWGIE
Atelia Vehicles
September 28th, 2009 Don M Posted in Arts and Literature, Landships, Mad Scientist and Inventions, Not To Be Confused With History, War Games from the Net Comments Off
Vehicles design for the Iron Grip game series from Isotx.
Rahmos Vehicles
September 28th, 2009 Don M Posted in Arts and Literature, Landships, Mad Scientist and Inventions, Not To Be Confused With History, War Games from the Net Comments Off
Vehicles design for the Iron Grip game series from Isotx.
Iron Grip Vehicles
September 28th, 2009 Don M Posted in Arts and Literature, Landships, Mad Scientist and Inventions, Not To Be Confused With History, War Games from the Net Comments Off
Vehicles design for the Iron Grip game series from Isotx.http://keiththompsonart.com/pages/sedalesserpent.html
Confederate Vehicles
September 28th, 2009 Don M Posted in Arts and Literature, Landships, Mad Scientist and Inventions, Not To Be Confused With History, The Americas, War Games from the Net Comments Off
Vehicles design for the Iron Grip game series from Isotx.
http://keiththompsonart.com/pages/sedalesserpent.html
Pirate Vehicles
September 28th, 2009 Don M Posted in Arts and Literature, Landships, Mad Scientist and Inventions, Not To Be Confused With History, War Games from the Net Comments Off
Vehicles design for the Iron Grip game series from Isotx.
Scientific Adventure Violence For Young Men And Literate Women
September 28th, 2009 Don M Posted in Arts and Literature, Mad Scientist and Inventions, Not To Be Confused With History Comments Off
The year's foremost journal of progressive armaments and weaponry! Behold the latest line of defense captured in action!The second book to emerge from the printshop at Grordbort Industries, Victory follows in the footsteps of the trans-galactically successful Dr Grordbort's Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory that was released last year.Filled to the brim with first hand tales of exploration and progress from the great heroes of our time, picture strips of unimaginable escapades on the frontier, never-seen-before portraits of dazzling damsels and monstrous villains, and laudable accounts of man and robot pitted against our greatest enemy (the uncivilized world), Victory is an onslaught of action-packed scientific adventure in full-spectrum color - containing facts that every boy and literate girl should know.Written and illustrated by Weta Workshop Conceptual Designer Greg Broadmore, this book sumptuously details a science-fiction history that never was. Hearkening back to the classic sci-fi serials of yesteryear, it reveals the backstories and mythos of Weta Limited's highly limited ray gun collectible line.This gorgeous 64 page full-color hardcover will be available mid-November.
You can pre-order nowdirectly from Weta here:http://www.wetanz.com/victory/
Rustlers Beware!
August 27th, 2009 Don M Posted in Figures and Modeling, Mad Scientist and Inventions, Not To Be Confused With History, Our VSF Campaign, The Americas Comments Off
The Mysterious Island Of Dr.Carter
August 22nd, 2009 Joe Posted in British Empire, Figures and Modeling, Flyers, Mad Scientist and Inventions, War Games from the Net, german Comments Off
A Victorian SF “CineGrunt” scenario by Stuart Murray
http://www.geocities.com/mxconnell/GZG7/carter2.html
http://www.warpfish.com/gzgecc/gzgecc8/AAR/gallery/Han/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/mxconnell/GZG7/carter2.html
http://www.warpfish.com/gzgecc/gzgecc8/AAR/gallery/Han/index.html
Mr. Brunel’s Land Ironclad
August 11th, 2009 Joe Posted in Figures and Modeling, Landships, Mad Scientist and Inventions, Not To Be Confused With History Comments Off
The Land Ironclads
August 11th, 2009 Joe Posted in Arts and Literature, British Empire, Landships, Mad Scientist and Inventions, Not To Be Confused With History Comments Off
The story opens with a war correspondent and a young lieutenant surveying the calm of the battlefield and reflecting upon the war. The two enemies are dug into trenches, each waiting for the other to attack, and the men on the war correspondent's side are confident in their coming victory. They believe that they will win because they are all strong outdoors-type men who know how to use a rifle and fight, while their enemies are towns people... "a crowd of devitalized townsmen... They're clerks, they're factory hands, they're students, they're civilized men. They can write, they can talk, they can make and do all sorts of things, but they're poor amateurs at war."[1] The men agree that their "open air life" produces far better men for war than their opponents' "decent civilization," and the story does not prove that fact wrong.
In the end, however, it is shown that the decent civilization, with men of science, engineers ways of winning the war, over the better soldiers who instead of developing land ironclads of their own, had been practicing getting better at shooting their rifles from horseback, a tactic which became obsolete the second the land ironclads entered the battlefield. Wells foreshadows this eventual outcome in the conversation of the two men in the first part, when the correspondent tells the lieutenant "Civilization has science, you know, it invented and it made the rifles and guns and things you use," and the lieutenant responds "Which our nice healthy hunters and stockmen and so on, rowdy-dowdy cowpunchers and nigger-whackers, can use ten times better..."[2]
The story ends with the entire army captured by a dozen or so of the land ironclads, and the last scene is of the correspondent comparing his countrymen's "sturdy proportions with those of their lightly built captors."[3], and thinking of the story he is going to write about the experience, noting both that the captured officers are thinking of ways they will defeat what they call the enemy's "ironmongery" with their already-existing weaponry, rather than developing their own land ironclads to counter the new threat, and also noting that the "half-dozen comparatively slender young men in blue pajamas who were standing about their victorious land ironclad, drinking coffee and eating biscuits, had also in their eyes and carriage something not altogether degraded below the level of a man."[4]
In the end, however, it is shown that the decent civilization, with men of science, engineers ways of winning the war, over the better soldiers who instead of developing land ironclads of their own, had been practicing getting better at shooting their rifles from horseback, a tactic which became obsolete the second the land ironclads entered the battlefield. Wells foreshadows this eventual outcome in the conversation of the two men in the first part, when the correspondent tells the lieutenant "Civilization has science, you know, it invented and it made the rifles and guns and things you use," and the lieutenant responds "Which our nice healthy hunters and stockmen and so on, rowdy-dowdy cowpunchers and nigger-whackers, can use ten times better..."[2]
The story ends with the entire army captured by a dozen or so of the land ironclads, and the last scene is of the correspondent comparing his countrymen's "sturdy proportions with those of their lightly built captors."[3], and thinking of the story he is going to write about the experience, noting both that the captured officers are thinking of ways they will defeat what they call the enemy's "ironmongery" with their already-existing weaponry, rather than developing their own land ironclads to counter the new threat, and also noting that the "half-dozen comparatively slender young men in blue pajamas who were standing about their victorious land ironclad, drinking coffee and eating biscuits, had also in their eyes and carriage something not altogether degraded below the level of a man."[4]
Anatoray Fleet
August 3rd, 2009 Joe Posted in Arts and Literature, Flyers, Mad Scientist and Inventions, Not To Be Confused With History Comments Off
The Anatoray fleet consists of 8 different classes of ships. They
are the Ulster, Claimh Solais, Goliath, Majestic, Audacious, Fomor,
Diadem, and Minerve classes.