Steampunk

**rebelrouser** · 14th November 14, 02:44 PM

Cali-forny is the place you oughta be !

**azwildcat96** · 14th November 14, 09:34 PM

How's this? It was my first attempt at steampunk. Halloween party with a steampunk/western theme.

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**James Hood** · 14th November 14, 10:49 PM

While Steampunk always raises a smile and piques interest and a thumbs-up when spoken of, personal preference is for the, "more advanced but still simpler times" epitomized by the Dieselpunk "school of philosophy."

What's Dieselpunk, one queries?

Pretty much, anything 20th century, pre-transistors / solid state / computers
* Indiana Jones
* Cheap detectives ("The Maltese Falcon")
* veritably anything World War II and immediate-after early Cold War
* "Casablanca"
* "High Road To China"
* " Flight of the Phoenix" (original)
* early black and white TV
* early comic books and "True ____" rag magazines
* Art Deco
* Post-Impressionism & early modern art
* jazz, early blues, swing, (original) country & western, early rock & roll
* electric and electrical but not electronic
* flathead V-8s, Harley WLAs, straight 8s, Packards, Hudsons, Studebakers, Crosleys, the first VW Beetles, cars with fins but no seat belts
* airplanes with reciprocating engines and propellers and very early jets
* pre-spaceflight but interest therein, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon
* very early James Bond, e.g., Casino Royale, as written
* flannel suits, fedoras, stockings with seams, dames, Zippo lighters
* Daddy Warbucks and the Chrysler Building
* very early Playboy magazine
* "Citizen Kane," "North By Northwest"
* Steinbeck, Mitchell, Hemingway, Forester, early Agatha Christie

One can imagine a variety of well-accoutred, kilted gents interspersed therein, interacting with....

**Mel1721L** · 15th November 14, 02:01 AM

Originally Posted by azwildcat96

How's this? It was my first attempt at steampunk. Halloween party with a steampunk/western theme.

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I'm guessing you are the one on the left? Looks good.

**Mel1721L** · 15th November 14, 02:04 AM

I like most of the stuff in your dieselpunk list, but still prefer the Victorian clothing and authors like Charles Dickens, H G Wells and to a lesser extent Jules Vernes.

**OC Richard** · 15th November 14, 06:19 AM

Originally Posted by Panache

Monkey@arms, Walkerk, and I attended a steampunk themed Handcar Regatta several years ago.

What, Jamie, no bird?

ith:

I'm ready for the next kilt-and-pith gathering, should there be one!

(with a co-worker at this year's company Halloween party)

**Panache** · 15th November 14, 09:15 AM

Well Richard when we do I have another sidearm to go with my outfit

(Nerf guns make great steampunk weapons)

Cheers

Jamie

Originally Posted by OC Richard

What, Jamie, no bird?

ith:

I'm ready for the next kilt-and-pith gathering, should there be one!

(with a co-worker at this year's company Halloween party)

**MacKenzie** · 20th November 14, 07:56 AM

Lots o steam here... http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/

**Mel1721L** · 20th November 14, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by MacKenzie

Lots o steam here... http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/

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They won't post to Spain. At least they didn't 2 years ago.

**DotDLL** · 13th January 15, 12:18 PM

Hi all,

It's been awhile since I last posted. This thread piqued my interest, as I've been slowly putting together some Steampunk-ish attire over the past few years. Here's a picture that someone took of me with it at a sci-fi convention early last year (courtesy of https://www.facebook.com/VanderPhotography):

It's probably only Steampunk-ish in that I tried to take something vaguely Victorian and add a pair of goggles onto it, although I've been thinking of trying to expand that a bit.

Cheers!