The Official Steampunk Fashion Thread [Image Heavy] !!!

[fantasy-Rayus]

Jacmer

yeah, I found the model gorgeous and the scene is very fitting.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4OYGjUrdllo/SPLCqsuKaZI/AAAAAAAAIZw/eyOzMuzImHs/s400/james-ng-inventor.jpg

I just found this picture by artist James Ng.

Pretty inspirational 8D.

http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_430xN.77206433.jpg
This is nice too.
From BirdandMoonStudio

Any ideas what I can add onto such a theme without taking away from the traditional wears?

whoa that is tight
but then again, I'm sure there were some steampunk technology in asian culture
for example,
in the late Japanese Edo period, karakuri dolls were mechanized puppets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakuri_ningyō
http://www.karakuri.info/

[Jacmer]

There were the 4 great inventions of China as well.

Paper making, compasses, printing, and....wait for it...GUNPOWDER.

Yeah, the Japanese have very nifty things. Their army was famed for keeping katana even in WWII times, maybe swords can even be incorporated?

I can't think of anything in terms of clothing though, props are becoming hardcore in my mind.

[IttyBittyPious]

Don't forget medicine. Refer back to my qipao post for clothing ideas.

[Adimarchus Saphir]

Jacmer

There were the 4 great inventions of China as well.

Paper making, compasses, printing, and....wait for it...GUNPOWDER.

Yeah, the Japanese have very nifty things. Their army was famed for keeping katana even in WWII times, maybe swords can even be incorporated?

I can't think of anything in terms of clothing though, props are becoming hardcore in my mind.

I have attempted that type of weapon with Steampunk

[IttyBittyPious]

Don't forget that the blade needs to be a bit thinner, and with a slight curve to it. I wonder if you could just mod a cheap one from Chinatown. . .

[Risu the Troll]

If you made it curve, the drill action wouldn't work properly though, because the end of the blade would swing too far out. Unless I'm totally misinterpreting the instructions.

Wouldn't friction in the hilt just make the hilt heat up?

The Chinese invented pasta and ice cream too. heart

[IttyBittyPious]

Risu the Troll

If you made it curve, the drill action wouldn't work properly though, because the end of the blade would swing too far out. Unless I'm totally misinterpreting the instructions.

Wouldn't friction in the hilt just make the hilt heat up?

Well, honestly, there'd be no point in having a spinning katana, anyway, as a majority of the motions/moves used in traditional swordfighting would not be conducive to a drilling motion, not to mention negate the beauty of a katana's ability to make a perfectly clean cut/slice. With this in mind, one would assume that a spinning katana would be a purely fantasy-based weapon. However, without the characteristic curve, a katana ceases to appear as such, and becomes a standard-looking single-edged sword.


That aside, it is an interesting idea for a weapon.

[Adimarchus Saphir]

The type of Katana that is, is the Samurai type not the traditional common one. there is a heating coil inside of it, and you also have to wear certain type of gloves to hold it, but the whole point of it spinning is the fact of not swinging the sword but impaling your enemies or just a simple Drill action in it. As for the hilt you have to either make an extra coating of Leather with a coolant on the inside. Just to let you know, right now its a prototype.

Katanas can be straight or curved, alot of people like to look at the Katana as it would be curved, but Samurai mostly used Straight Katana, until later, adapted the curve of the blade for a more edge in cut and slice.

[Risu the Troll]

I thought it looked more like a wakazashi or a kodachi; shorter swords and probably better suited to stabbing rather than slicing.

Having the thing heated would give one an excellent legitimate excuse to wear a massive pair of leather welding gloves though

[Adimarchus Saphir]

wakazashi would be nice for this

but I had a friend of mine do a different view of it.



This one however has the curve, but I am still in prototype phase of my project, the hilt itself might get bulky but of couse most things start out big and end up being smaller.

We even did a Gaia version of it.

[Chaotic Pixie Stix]

Sgt. Pepers

Chaotic Pixie Stix

Hello steampunk peeps! blaugh
I'm doing my first steampunk mod on an old toy gun I found in the basement. I'm pretty stoked.

Sweet be sure to post some pictures after your done.

I definately will. biggrin

[Sgt. Pepers]

Chaotic Pixie Stix

Sgt. Pepers

Chaotic Pixie Stix

Hello steampunk peeps! blaugh
I'm doing my first steampunk mod on an old toy gun I found in the basement. I'm pretty stoked.

Sweet be sure to post some pictures after your done.

I definately will. biggrin

Alright sounds spiffy.

[ScarieFarie]

Madame Pai

Since I was child, I've always loved the way clock-work, goggles(SPECIALLY GOGGLES XDDD *is in love with her pilot goggles ;v*, or mechanical stuff looked like on clothing <3
When I came across this fashion, I completely fell for it.
I'm actually thinking on starting to follow this fashion irl, since it looks so awesome XD
Not only clothes, but decoration itself :v
Thank you for creating this thread C:
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I know what you mean, I've always been interested in steampunk, and fell totally in love with it recently. Now a lot of my outfits have steampunk elements to them.