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Post by Bayne on Mar 25, 2005 1:16:06 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]LOL Maybe a rod and mesh roll cage like an old dozer? [/glow]
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Post by MikeH on Mar 25, 2005 1:19:50 GMT
The Bowers model is certainly my favourite depiction, although it needs a few more tentacles and things
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Post by Gerkinman on Mar 25, 2005 3:04:50 GMT
How the ***k does a 5 legged....anything walk?
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Post by Lensman on Mar 25, 2005 3:41:40 GMT
How the f**k does a 5 legged....anything walk? Just like "the thing" on Addams Family. They're creepy and they're kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They're all together ooky, The Addams Family. Their house is a museum Where people come to see 'em They really are a scream The Addams Family. (Neat) (Sweet) (Petite) So get a witches shawl on A broomstick you can crawl on We're gonna pay a call on The Addams Family.
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Post by amber14 on Mar 26, 2005 22:39:34 GMT
I think the Geoff Wayne one is great and kinda cute too. Any rate the Marvel/Dr.Who comic versions of the HM and FM? I thought they looked a bit strange at first but spesh with the FM the drawing matches the description that is in the book. I've noticed on this board there seems to be a lack of mention of the "Dr. Who" one. I refer to it more as the Dr. Who one as I read that comic first and didn't know it was a Marvel original first. Infact I only got the Dr. Who comic for the WOW strip.
I missed out on the Comet Miniatures kit of the Geoff Wayne HM first time around, I was concentrating on getting the FM's *I needed 3* but I shall get it on the re-issue this year though.
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Post by McTodd on Mar 27, 2005 11:56:37 GMT
I like the Marvel/Dr Who strip, but the HM had wheels in it! Very wrong!
Also, the Martians, which on the whole I liked the look of, had silly pointy Spock ears, which I most emphatically did not like the look of...
*Hoot hoot hoot!* (Trans. "We are planning to take over planet Earth!")
*Hoot hoot.* (Trans. "That would be logical, Captain.")
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Post by Tripod on Mar 27, 2005 13:17:57 GMT
I'm currently trying to design a Handling Machine, and it's more tricky than I expected. Hoe the hell should a five legged walk?!
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Post by McTodd on Mar 27, 2005 14:46:27 GMT
Rather awkwardly, I suspect...
I'd imagine a fairly conventional four-legged gait, with the fifth leg at the back rather awkwardly (and, let's be honest, superfluously) bringing up the rear.
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Post by Hals on Mar 27, 2005 22:13:25 GMT
I'd always imagined a HM having five legs but using only three for locomotion ( ala Tripod ). The other two as spares and for gaining purchase on uneven or rough terrain, or when a burst of speed was needed (chasing a Victorian Linford Christie; or if there were no humans about, chasing cats, dogs, rabbits etc).
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Post by Xav on Apr 4, 2005 0:58:26 GMT
I imagine the HM to be like those ones in the model pictures, but also rather like as Hals remarks; three legs for support and two in front , perhaps feeling examining, grasping, perhaps for the really heavy work. No need to synchronise their working, would be quite independent.
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Post by JonT on Apr 6, 2005 17:52:12 GMT
i have always thought the jeff wayne version as the definitive HM, the bowers model is cool too.
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Post by Boz on Apr 13, 2005 11:42:15 GMT
I've never been a fan of the Wayne imagery (contraversial, I know). I always imagine the Martian machines as being alien examples of Victorian technlogy. I like the idea of very grand, quite antiquated things made from brass and iron with lots of pistons and steam everywhere. I don't like the rather clinical machines Wayne came up with - especially the green 'eyes'. I also like to imagine the actual Martian creatures having to polish all that brass. But there you go...
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Post by I own a cylinder on Apr 27, 2005 10:35:35 GMT
I've never been a fan of the Wayne imagery (contraversial, I know). I always imagine the Martian machines as being alien examples of Victorian technlogy. I like the idea of very grand, quite antiquated things made from brass and iron with lots of pistons and steam everywhere. I to don't find Waynes Martians to be the BE ALL and END ALL of War of the Worlds designs. Probably am alone in it, but i find Warwick Gobles' handling machine to fit the bill closer than Wayne, Hines and Dean. Here's why. From the BookThe Handling Machine. a metallic spider with five jointed, agile legs, and with an extraordinary number of jointed levers, bars, and reaching and clutching tentacles about its body...the handling-machine, with a faint and musical clinking, extended, telescopic fashion, a tentacle that had been a moment before a mere blunt projectionIts Clear the machine has five legs that are jointed with more than one joint to make them incrediably agile. It also has a number of tenticles, which can expand and contract depending if they are needed. Lets also assume that the 'jointed levers and bars' are more like tools or spare parts. a crablike creature with a glittering integument, the controlling Martian whose delicate tentacles actuated its movements seeming to be simply the equivalent of the crab's cerebral portion.Also clear from this is the controlling Martian can be seen by the narrator in full view, either in full open view or under a sheltered hood like the fighting machines. Then I saw through a sort of glass plate near the edge of the body the face, as we may call it, and the large dark eyes of a Martian, peering, and then a long metallic snake of tentacle came feeling slowly through the hole.This reminds me of the two lower windows you get in helicopter cockpits. With two spatulate handsThe Handlign Machine does have hands/claws. As far as i can remember, Wells DOES NOT put a metal cage on the Handling Machine.... As we know, Wells mentions he didn't like the Warwick Goble illustrations because they were too stiff looking. True. But looking at the Martians Fighting Machines on the cover of 'Amazing Stories' they are an upgraded version of Gobels drawings, where the legs are abit more flexable, and which i might add, fits the description of the Figthing machine very closely. So assuming that, lets also assume an updated version of Gobels Handling Machine might be closer to Wells' Handling Machines. Watch the fan works people. Illustration to follow. ;D
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Post by Boz on Apr 27, 2005 18:53:15 GMT
Could you show me Goble's drawing please?
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Post by Boz on Apr 27, 2005 18:53:56 GMT
Sorry, 'Gobel'...
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Apr 27, 2005 19:41:53 GMT
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Post by Boz on Apr 27, 2005 21:58:27 GMT
Yes, I have seen that before. Those illustrations are very good. Quite vague - just suggestions in some instances. I always saw the handling machine as being a tool rather than a vehicle. Goble's drawing is suggestive of that. Another thing: I always imagined each Martian machine to be unique. Most renderings have all the fighting machines/ handling machines following an identical pattern. Just a subjective view, but there you go...
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Apr 27, 2005 23:51:43 GMT
Michael Trim's Handling Machine (1976) Tom Kidd's version (2001?)
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Post by I own a cylinder on Apr 28, 2005 0:02:49 GMT
Tom Kidds version has too many legs. Though I do like the idea of the martian wearing the handling machine like a suit. Nice digging mechanism.
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