Greetings!
I took me more than a week to update my blog, so I reward you with not one but two pictures. Last time i said I would like to do something within the steampunk genre, so I did. The first one I did on Christmas eve to scare all the childeren. It is an evil titan sized Steam rolling santa that collects naughty children in cages beneath him and uses them as fuel (the burner is in his mouth). I tried to make the picture so he is about to stomp the viewer and grab him. I had to redraw the stomping foot a few times.
The second one is actually somehting that I may develop further, putting it in a battle scene with soldiers at it's feet. I will try some different colour schemes first on it. It is an Imperial battle walker. It's main armament is a self-loading steam operated cannon (it uses partly steam from the pistons and some directly from the boiler. If the enemy gets too near it uses the large circle saw on it's left side.
The walker takes 3 crewmen. 1 commander, 1 driver (aka "Walker") and 1 engine operator. The commander stands with the hatch open and can use the telescope and calculator combination to designate targets and fire solutions. The telescope can lock to the cannon's movement so that when the telescope is moved the cannon moves accordingly (10 degrees to left and 30 degrees right). The driver operates the feet and steers the walker. It requires a great deal of skill to operate the walker and with extremely limited vision the driver must rely on the commander to get directions. The engine operator functions as a back-up driver/commander and monitors the steam engine. He also fires and operates the weapons from inside the vehicle.
Enjoy and until next time happy new year 2012!
