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Offline andonio64

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #50 on: June 19, 2017, 01:32:05 AM »
I just finished an afternoon session: I created the struts to hold the aileron, I reused a piece of a toy chair I found many years ago in a chocolate egg, and used three different brass tubes  having decreasing diameters to make a hollow support to insert in it the stem of the red lamp:




the pieces are not glued...

I will rig the aileron as the red lines show in these last two pictures:



For today I think it's all !!!

Thanks as usual for your attention...

Antonio
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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #51 on: June 19, 2017, 01:58:23 PM »
Mobile Red-Light establishment? ???
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Offline andonio64

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #52 on: June 19, 2017, 03:08:08 PM »
Quote from: Old Wombat on June 19, 2017, 01:58:23 PM
Mobile Red-Light establishment? ???

Maybe  an advertisement for that kind of Business?
Maybe Gunilla is the name of the "Maitresse" ?
 ;D
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Offline Brian da Basher

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #53 on: June 21, 2017, 08:34:33 AM »
Your builds always have that extra bit of class, Antonio!

The details look great!

Brian da Basher
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Offline Dr. YoKai

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #54 on: June 21, 2017, 10:29:29 AM »
Coming along wonderfully!
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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #55 on: June 21, 2017, 06:21:22 PM »
Quote from: Brian da Basher on June 21, 2017, 08:34:33 AM
Your builds always have that extra bit of class, Antonio!

That'd be a blue light (officers, don'tcha know, what!?) ;)
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Offline andonio64

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #56 on: June 23, 2017, 01:58:24 AM »
Thanks everybody!!!!
 :-*
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Offline andonio64

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #57 on: July 09, 2017, 11:36:25 PM »
Due to hot and real world engagements lately I dedicated less time to my beloved Gunilla...

Anyway I have added some detail and today I sprayed everything with gray primer.

In this case the primer was important to uniform the base colour as I have used many different pieces in plastic of many different colours...

Here you see everything "primered" but other small pieces that did not need to be sprayed.



Here is the "shell" with some added rivets



the two carved rectangles on the two sides of the cockpit were done to host the two tanks... (ehr... gas... petrol... other weird fuel... well I don't know what was the fuel for a Tesla engine  :-[ :-\ ...)



Some nuts and bolts on the windscreen:




Ciao and thanks for your attention!

AnDonio
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Offline AXOR

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #58 on: July 10, 2017, 05:17:46 AM »
Nice project, we are waiting for the next steps  :)
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Offline Brian da Basher

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #59 on: July 10, 2017, 07:39:15 AM »
Those tanks really look every bit the business!

Brian da Basher
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Offline Buzzbomb

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #60 on: July 10, 2017, 11:59:33 AM »
Ahhh cherub parts holders... how Steampunk of you

Loving this
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Offline andonio64

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #61 on: July 10, 2017, 03:04:49 PM »
Quote from: AXOR on July 10, 2017, 05:17:46 AM
Nice project, we are waiting for the next steps  :)

Thank you AXOR , me too!!! Ha ha ha...  ;D

OK now that I have primered everything, I can proceed with colouring and glueing the parts, the road has now started going downhill...

AnDonio



 
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Offline andonio64

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #62 on: July 10, 2017, 03:05:32 PM »
Quote from: Brian da Basher on July 10, 2017, 07:39:15 AM
Those tanks really look every bit the business!

Brian da Basher

Thanks for appreciating the tanks Brian!

:-)

AnDonio
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Offline andonio64

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #63 on: July 10, 2017, 03:12:36 PM »
Quote from: buzzbomb on July 10, 2017, 11:59:33 AM
Ahhh cherub parts holders... how Steampunk of you

Loving this

Buzzbomb, they are my heavenly helpers... lowcost "man"power...  >:( >:( >:(
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Offline jcf

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #64 on: July 14, 2017, 07:04:50 AM »
Cool.  :) :icon_fsm:

As to the fuel, well it converted phlogiston to aether by a process of reverse-catalysis,
the still secret aspect is the magnetic and electrical processes used.
 :icon_fsm:

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Offline andonio64

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #65 on: July 16, 2017, 03:10:50 PM »
Quote from: jcf on July 14, 2017, 07:04:50 AM
Cool.  :) :icon_fsm:

As to the fuel, well it converted phlogiston to aether by a process of reverse-catalysis,
the still secret aspect is the magnetic and electrical processes used.
 :icon_fsm:

 :o :-\

Thanks jcf!!!
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Offline andonio64

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #66 on: August 06, 2017, 01:34:12 AM »
Hallo everybody, while working on the Tricyclone I took some time to spray and paint the several pieces of the Gunilla car.

Today I started assembling the pieces, here is the state of the art

General view:

engine and cockpit in place.
The cockpit is not yet finished.

Underside view:


A view of the Gunilla face and of the engine:



Top view of the cockpit (without the seat) with a toolbox


Better views of the control panel:



left side of the cockpit


the seat:


the tanks:


Other pieces:



Thanks for looking!

Antonio





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Offline Brian da Basher

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #67 on: August 06, 2017, 08:36:06 AM »
I find the large face both disturbing yet oddly mesmerizing at the same time...

I really like how you've represented the different types of metals, the copper, steel and brass. That to me is very advanced work as I always find metallic finishes challenging.

Nice update, looking forward to more,
Brian da Basher
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Offline andonio64

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #68 on: August 06, 2017, 04:25:30 PM »
Thanks Brian, I'm glad you liked it, I agree that the face is too big, but mesmerizing is the right term.
Apart from the size, I find those kind of representation very "esoteric" and would like to find more. If anyone knows of sites or books with those kind of engraving I would be grateful to have that info.

I found that face on the wall of a shop near where I live, here are the others:



should anyone be needing any of those drawings I have high resolution jpgs to share.

Thanks

Antonio
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Offline andonio64

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #69 on: August 07, 2017, 04:12:23 PM »
Hallo everybody, I finished the Gunilla car yesterday evening.

Here are the final photos:



Walkaround










Detail of the forward part



Detail of the rear part



Views of the cockpit







Engine


Photos of the bottom (taken before the completion of the top part)





Thanks for watching, I had a lot of fun imagining, designing and building Gunilla.

A friend of mine who saw the model yesterday suggested to have a look at the Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (search for it on Youtube!!!) a truly fantastic Norwegian stop motion movie by Ivo Caprino where the main character has built a big racing car (Tempo Gigante) very similar to the Gunilla vehicle.

CLICK HERE

CLICK ALSO HERE

Someone later on has built a real size fully functioning replica of that car.
SEE HERE

Wow it's a beauty!!!

Antonio






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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #70 on: August 07, 2017, 11:05:40 PM »
It's weird, wacky & wonderful! 8) :smiley:


It'd look right at home in a Steam Punk Wacky Races driven by, given the pinkish hue to the bronze, Penelope Pitstop! ;D ;D
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Offline andonio64

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #71 on: August 07, 2017, 11:19:37 PM »
Quote from: Old Wombat on August 07, 2017, 11:05:40 PM
It's weird, wacky & wonderful! 8) :smiley:


It'd look right at home in a Steam Punk Wacky Races driven by, given the pinkish hue to the bronze, Penelope Pitstop! ;D ;D

Thank you OW!!!

;D ;D ;D ;D
About Penelope Pitstop, well she's too much a positive heroine to drive this deadly armed monster (;D ;D), but it could happen, due to the hues as you said, never say never!!!!
 ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Offline jcf

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #72 on: August 08, 2017, 01:07:28 AM »
Very cool.  :smiley:

As to free graphics of that sort, Dover Publishing in the US has published a huge range of books of
old advertising "cuts" for art purposes for several decades, and other types of design illustrations,
they started adding an accompanying CD of all the images back in the '90s. They generally show
up really cheap on the used book market.

Search result on used.addall.com, copies start at .99¢ US.
http://used.addall.com/SuperRare/RefineRare.fcgi?id=170807102918344526

Here's a link to one category:
http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-clip-art-fine-art--advertising--more.html

You can also sign up with them for free clip-art via email, new stuff from their archive every wednesday.
http://www.doverpublications.com/dspa117/index.html
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Offline Jacques Deguerre

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #73 on: August 08, 2017, 07:58:48 AM »
Holy cow, that's just awesome! What works so well about it is that, while it has the Steampunk grandiosity, it still looks purposeful. Very nice work!
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Offline Antonio Sobral

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Re: Steampunk armoured car
« Reply #74 on: August 08, 2017, 02:59:21 PM »
Gunilla Rules!!! :smiley:

Loved the concept and the subsequent implementation. Extravagant q.b., with all those gorgeous details.

Sent me back memory lane a few decades, and all of a sudden the name Dastardly comes to mind :)

Thanks for sharing!
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