A Dieselpunk diversion… This was not necessarily going to be something which informed the direction of the project, more just me mucking around with some slightly more ‘modern’ looking kit parts. As the name suggests, Dieselpunk is a logical leap along the time line from Steampunk, embracing the diesel age, art deco, and so on as its aesthetic. If I’d done the ‘full’ Steampunk project last time around, there were plans to show the encroaching diesel age of Britannia in 1901, a logical progression of technology at the time.
The idea is broadly similar to the tank-crane from the earlier model, but with rather more modern kit, and things like aircraft parts incorporated.
PROS
Looked good, and acquiring more modern looking materials to build the monster might have been easier.
CONS
Still very large, and there is the added logical problem; a machine like this would look a lot more monstrous and hideous to Victorian eyes, but then if it existed in that world, contemporaneous with the time line, then there wouldn’t be any petrol/diesel for it to run on. At least with the steam version of the monster, the elemental fuel requirements of coal/wood and water would be in abundance in the environment of Wonderland.
Another diversion… thinking along the lines of the water-dwelling monster. I just liked the idea of some sort of ‘serpent’ which lives in a lake and which snatches victims from the shore. It definitely had its limitations as a concept, but Rydal Hall has much in the way of watercourses and lakes, and I liked the idea of getting a rowing boat or similar, and building something onto it…
In the end though, both designs were dismissed as impractical in this case, and not properly fitting the brief. Still, sketches don't cost owt, and bits and pieces from the designs made it into other developments....
Finally, another diversion which built out of the Dieselpunk sketch, and a slightly unhinged take on Alice, after I'd watched Mad Max one too many times...
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