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Offline Antonio Sobral

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Tiny Little Steamboat...in a steampunk kind of way
« on: May 29, 2013, 06:29:46 PM »
Hello everybody


This is a tiny little project that I did a few months ago: a small steamboat that I later used as an accessory in a bigger steampunk diorama.

The scale is N (1:160 or so), which is a good thing because you have plenty of figures to choose from, from the scale modelling railroad world!


The original hull was savaged from a lifeboat stolen from the "La Superbe" ship (Heller).




The rest is just bits and pieces of plastic and metal scratchbuilt into something that remotely seems like a steam engine and related stuff:



















For those not familiar with the 1 Eurocent coin dimensions, it is roughly 15% smaller that the US penny :)


The painting phase photos will follow shortly!



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Offline Jeffry Fontaine

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Re: Tiny Little Steamboat...in a steampunk kind of way
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2013, 12:50:22 AM »
Welcome to Beyond The Sprues. 

What kind of steam plant powers this little boat of yours.  Is it a nuclear reactor or a conventional fossil fuel fired boiler?  There is certainly a lot of detail in your little model boat. 

RE: 1 Eurocent.  Is that coin close to the German Pfennig in size?
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Re: Tiny Little Steamboat...in a steampunk kind of way
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2013, 02:14:49 AM »
Nice work.
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Re: Tiny Little Steamboat...in a steampunk kind of way
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2013, 05:09:13 AM »
What a great build !!!!!!   An outstanding idea !!!!!!!    Can't wait to see more  ...
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Re: Tiny Little Steamboat...in a steampunk kind of way
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2013, 08:35:03 AM »
Quite fantastic and what attention to detail!

Welcome to Beyond the Sprues, Antonio!

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Re: Tiny Little Steamboat...in a steampunk kind of way
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2013, 10:58:51 AM »
Truly a beautiful little piece of work.
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Re: Tiny Little Steamboat...in a steampunk kind of way
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2013, 12:22:11 PM »
Small size with big character built into it.   :)
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Offline Antonio Sobral

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Re: Tiny Little Steamboat...in a steampunk kind of way
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2013, 02:53:05 PM »
Thanks guys!

And here it is, with paint:














And the last one, with the proverbial coin again :)

(just to answer to Jeffry, the german pfennig dissapeared in 2002, when the euro replaced the german mark,
mas it had exactly the same dimensions as the current euro-cent).




I hope you enjoy it!

This tiny little one will appear shortly  as an "adornment" in a bigger diorama
featuring a XIX th century US made Portuguese ironclad ship (also with a steampunk twist, of course).

I still have to translate to English the ficcional story that I invented to locate the action.
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Re: Tiny Little Steamboat...in a steampunk kind of way
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2013, 03:04:25 PM »
Cute. :)
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Re: Tiny Little Steamboat...in a steampunk kind of way
« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2013, 04:15:15 AM »
A prize-winner all the way, Antonio!

You've got a real talent for perfect weathering!

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Re: Tiny Little Steamboat...in a steampunk kind of way
« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2013, 07:01:13 AM »
Beautiful  :)  Looking forward to that diorama!
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Re: Tiny Little Steamboat...in a steampunk kind of way
« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2013, 09:26:22 AM »
Welcome to BTS, Antonio! That's a great looking little steamboat. It reminds me of The African Queen

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