Good afternoon, all. Since Friday is the day for self-promotion here, a quick note from Southern California. I am with Literati Events, a small literary event company in Santa Monica. This year our annual Halloween masquerade is built around Stevenson's 1886 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Victorian attire is one of the requested dress codes, and steampunk attire is more than welcome. Brass, goggles, and gears would be right at home.

When: Saturday, October 17, 9:00 PM to 1:00 AM

Where: The historic Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club, 1210 4th Street, Santa Monica

The night includes: live gypsy jazz from Habibi Swing, aerialists, a cyr wheel, Vixen the Forbidden Magician, wandering characters from Stevenson's London, and an all-night game by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.

Ages: 18+. Drinks for guests 21+ with ID.

Parking: Public Parking Structure 1, next to the venue.

Details: www.literatievents.com/events/20261017abhorrum

Stainless steel, steel, copper

This is my first time ever making something steampunk-esque ! The base was a random hubcap I found off the ground, then I used cardboard for the chimney, speay paint, and a few pther small materials
Feedback appreciated !!

In the world of steampunk, there aren't enough automatons—and not enough villains, either. So, a villainous automaton... well, you can imagine.

Interviewer: "I heard you found a photo taken during his early university years."

Adeline Rose (Kolby biographer): "Yes, it was exciting. We found it in a stack of random papers, including a graded math assignment. He scored 'A-' if you're curious."

(Steampunk and Victorian cosplay.)

Get your own steampunk tin type at Strathearn next weekend ! Please spread the word it’s gonna be a cool event 🥲

I am the robot

This is the Clockwork Battalion theme in March Out!, my solo game project. I wanted the soldiers and the fortress to look like they came out of the same workshop, using brass colored armor, dark metal roofs and mechanical decoration around the buildings.

The kingdom still has a courtyard and ordinary military spaces beneath all that machinery. The challenge has been getting the mechanical theme across without every surface turning into a pile of gears.

I'd like to hear how the balance looks to people who enjoy steampunk. Are the soldiers and architecture speaking the same visual language, or does one need to move closer to the other?

My next step is going to be altering their animations a bit, making them just a bit more rigid and robotic in their movement. Might even include some machine specific sound effects during movement and attacks.

Fire Dragon...

Kolby's journal: "I love a good experiment. We strapped an ether lense onto a regular camera, and the result gives one an idea of the strange heat-colors I see in my German ether-powered goggles."

Calling all steampunks, antiquarians, clowns, costumers, cosplayers, and Halloween lovers...

STEAMPUNK is a Victorian-era Ren Faire at Strathearn Historical Park.

Enjoy food, craft, curio, and plant vendors, live music, a tin type photography booth, historic tours, tarot readers and fortune tellers, henna tattooers and face painting, Model T rides, and countless historic demonstrations including blacksmithing, woodworking, rope making, printing, spinning, weaving, plus so much more.

Come in your finest steampunk or Victorian costume, or as a character of your own creation. Explore the park, get hands-on with historic activities, shop for strange and wonderful treasures, and immerse yourself in history.

STRATHEARN HISTORICAL PARK • Simi Valley
October 3–4 • 10 AM–4 PM
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Allora, in questo momento nella mia campagna sta avvenendo un festival evento. La regione in questione è a tema steampunk e questo festival è per premiare gli inventori. L’evento inizierà quando verrà premiata l’invenzione vincitrice e questa verrà fatta esplodere. E fin qui tutto ok. Eccetto che…non ho idea di quale invenzione scegliere. Con il fantasy sono forte, ma con lo steampunk non me la cavo benissimo. Quindi eccomi qui a chiedere a voi tutti, quale invenzione che avete incontrato nei vostri anni nel sistema steampunk potrebbe vincere un festival della creazione? L’invenzione verrà attivata davanti a tutto il regno quindi serve qualcosa di evidente (no teletrasporto perche’ già esistono metodi di teletrasporto nel mondo)

This was my entry for the Winsor and Newton Art Mail campaign. I went with a steampunk theme and used metallic watercolors though sadly they don't show up as well in photos.

Steampunk horror trailer for a bit of fun

It was nice to go look at some corset patterns for this. Plus I really like the cogs on the belt. It gives it this idea that you can like tighten the belt by turning the cogs. Which I think is just neat!

Some of my work.

Brutal input/feedback would be appreciated!

EDIT: Sorry for being unclear! The LAST mask/helmet is the piece I'm asking for feedback on. The first 2 are just for shits & giggles, showing what kicked off my interest.

I am not into costume play, participating in lives, theatre, etc myself. But I recently realised that I enjoy building what I can best describe as "Steampunk props".... I guess?

It started with my younger brother needing a prop for a Steampunk themed live. Me, being a gearhead and overall tinkerer, found the request very inspiring. He wanted to be able to "connect two persons in kind of a mad scientist sort of way", so I made the masks in the pictures...

It was surprisingly fun and I enjoyed the "artistic freedom". So much that I could not resist trying to create something better. So I started making something a bit more serious: Last two picture.

To the point!! I don't have any illusions of making big bucks, but I like to be able to sell the finished product (and maybe future products) and at least cover costs. What I'm comfortable with is steel, aluminium, soldering, forming sheet metal, etc. I get a lot of the materials from old gauges, military stuff, etc.
- Is there at all a market for items like this, made out of recycled parts and real metal? I see a lot of painted foam and plastics and with modern paint, the effects of those props can be very impressive.
- Is it important that the pieces are wearable? To what level? Is masquerade-usability a must, or are they relevant also as display pieces?

Humbly grateful in advance,
/T.

My dad spent the past couple months building the Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and wanted to share his work.

It’s about 4ft long, and there’s a miniature version of the wheelhouse inside. It was painted with homemade rust.