I found a coluorized version of this image in my print archives, and I thought I'd share it with my friends on FA. Earlier I had submitted a black and white version, but this coloured version has some interesting details in it.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 574 x 750px
File Size 163.3 kB
I was raised watching movies based on the popular books written by the likes of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. In my teenage years I developed a great interest in anachronism, and in my adult years I started reading and collecting technical and engineering books from the early 20th Century. I'm a big fan of steam powered machinery.
I love your art! My love for steam engineering was born when I was a child and my grandfather, an engineer, gave me his old books on steam engines. When I plugged in the numbers and found that a high pressure high speed poppet valve uniflow steam engine could produce over one horsepower per cubic inch displacement, it was love at first sight! Then I found out how fast steam powered race cars went very early in the 20th century - mind boggeling!!
Yeah! I saw videos of a big German Uniflow engine running the machinery at a Pennsylvania Textile plant, and it intrigued me that Steam engines didn't need to look like the big Horizontal or vertical engines used in the late 19th Century. There are quite a few Uniflow powered freighters and Car Ferries still plying the waters of Lake Michigan too, like the S. S. Badger. I even was inspired by this "Different" technology to create the fantasy world of the S.S. Athena which pops up a lot in my art lately. Check out my earlier image "Fantasy Engine Room," and you'll see little influences of those big Skinner Uniflow engines.
I hate to say it but it looks like these guys bought the Sandcrawler's Beta model off of the Jawas.
Great. Thanks for this pic I'm looking for Steampunk/furry/Star Wars crossover artwork on the internet. All I need is a way to blend several more genres and concepts in and I shall become a supernerd!
Great. Thanks for this pic I'm looking for Steampunk/furry/Star Wars crossover artwork on the internet. All I need is a way to blend several more genres and concepts in and I shall become a supernerd!
Well... Steam powered vehicles have thir advantages and drawbacks. I know most folks wouldn't want to waste about a quarter hor waiting for their car to get sufficent steam pressure to drive it down the street to pick up the Groceries. Still, I like your Hydrogen fuel cell idea. Water is plentful, and if a way could be found to turn such to steam instantly, I'm sure wth the modern technology we have now much more efficient and more powerful steam engines could be built. I personally find it Irinic that the Gasoline Engine-Electric Hybrid system has been in use for more than 100 years, but only now it has started to catch on for personal Automobiles. I guess it'll take the world running out of oil to teach us to be more "Conservative."
*nods* It's sad that people only start to think about conserving things when it's almost too late. Still if we can make the switch, who knows? I've always thought it would be interesting if car batteries could store kinetic energ from when you put on the breaks or geothermal energy from the earth.
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