Spurious Contraptions & Other Steampunk Oddities

wikipedia was very informative this morning. A notorious 19th c. dive bar in NYC called "Hole in the Wall" employed female criminals as bouncers.

Gallus Mag was 6 ft. tall.
"It was her custom, after she’d felled an obstreperous customer with her club, to clutch his ear between her teeth and so drag him to the door, amid the frenzied cheers of the onlookers. If her victim protested she bit his ear off, and having cast the fellow into the street she carefully deposited the detached member in a jar of alcohol behind the bar…. She was one of the most feared denizens on the waterfront and the police of the period shudderingly described her as the most savage female they’d ever encountered."
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A composite character based on her, Sadie the Goat (also worked the Hudson as a river pirate), & Hell-Cat Maggie ("her teeth reportedly filed into points and wore long claw-like brass fingernails") was portrayed in Gangs of New York. Some of the rough customers they dealt with also had great names like Slobbery Jim & Patsy the Barber.

Got to be a unit or GL in there somewhere.
 
Does anyone here plays World of Warcraft?

The instance/raid zone called Ulduar has strong hints of Steampunk. Here are some images:

Ulduar
 
Ok guys, here it is: the steampunkiest machine currently in existence:

Meet The Jardinator (that is its actual name). The beauty is, it's self-propelled. Read more >here<.

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Wyrmshadow said:
A week ago I was randomly clicking links on IMDB when I found this.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401729/
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Yes. It is a source of pride that we were already planning to include Barsoom before that project was announced. Unfortunately, it puts a bit of a time limit on us (though I'm confident it will be done by 2012!) in that we have a short window of time before images from the movie leak out and Disneyize everyone's idea of what these things should all look like. I prefer Frazetta's images, myself.

I know that you've retired, Wyrm, but if you know of any other interested unit makers, we could use a full unit line of Green Martians and Rykors...

For a recent update about the Barsoom part of this mod, check out the posts I made today in the Map, Civilizations and Units threads in this sub-forum. If Barsoom ever comes together, I could see making a spin off mod of it, easily. Hell, the hardest work would be largely done.....
 
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It's not a case mod. Just a slipcover. Still, very handy for continuing work on the scenario whilst on the Express. Each case is individually "distressed" to ensure uniqueness, according to this article. There is a link to the manufacturers site, which I won't post.:mischief: Another site with less words, more pictures. Now that the idea's out there... I'd spend the money to find a custom book binder/repairer & have them make one that's truly unique.
 
Ear Shattering :)
For a second it reminded of the scene in close encounters of the third kind where they try to communicate with the aliens by sound. Perhaps there is space for such a device in the Lost Worlds scenario ;)
 
KingArthur said:
Ear Shattering :)
For a second it reminded of the scene in close encounters of the third kind where they try to communicate with the aliens by sound. Perhaps there is space for such a device in the Lost Worlds scenario ;)
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A small wonder "Steam Cathedral"?
 
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