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Post by Max on Jul 22, 2005 9:30:14 GMT
Can i put it to the vote? What sort of finish do you think the Tripods had? (A) Very reflective chrome a la the Woking sculpture (B) A stainless steel effect (C) So shiny it appears white a la the Mike Trimm version (D) Bit radical this - shiny but in gold/bronze. Your thoughts would be appreciated.  |
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jul 22, 2005 9:40:19 GMT
I say either (b) or (d), with the emphasis more on bronze.
Too shiny, like chrome, would make it a bit toy-like.
White - too boring.
So on balance, steel/brushed aluminium, or bronze (yes, not very decisive). Or both!
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Post by Gnorn on Jul 22, 2005 9:44:49 GMT
I can't remember the exact phrase, but somewhere (during the storm maybe) Wells wrote the hood to be bronze-like. But I envision them to be more like aluminium, Flipping heck, Wells isn't really helpfull here, is he?
-Gnorn
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jul 22, 2005 9:48:59 GMT
No he isn't. He was probably distracted a lot... "I think you'll find he had the horn all the time..." |
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Post by Max on Jul 22, 2005 10:10:59 GMT
Got to say, i'm veering towards the bronze effect, mainly 'cause i like the idea of it being a Victorian idea of what it'd look like. Steam Punk if you will.
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Post by broton on Jul 22, 2005 12:02:57 GMT
Heaven forbid we should be invaded by boring war machines!  |
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Post by Max on Jul 24, 2005 10:36:36 GMT
Just been re-reading some notes i'd made from the book yonks back and there's mentions of "steel" and "'luminum" so i guess that's the way to go.
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Post by Refugee on Jul 24, 2005 11:23:25 GMT
I know you are almost, if not, expert at model making so I dont want to sound patronising but don't make it really shiny. Dull it down with a smudge of black/rust and rub with a cloth or use a not so metalic paint otherwise it may look fake and also bare in mind these things have marched through wind, rain, crawled out of the muddy pits and been shot at repeatedly so pristene might not be the look you want to go for.
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jul 24, 2005 11:31:18 GMT
I can't remember the exact phrase, but somewhere (during the storm maybe) Wells wrote the hood to be bronze-like. Yup, you're right, here: It picked its road as it went striding along, and the brazen hood that surmounted it moved to and fro with the inevitable suggestion of a head looking about. |
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Post by Max on Jul 24, 2005 12:22:32 GMT
Yeah, i had it in mind to dirty it down. That way there's a two-fold advantidge of making it look more realistic and also to give it a sense of scale.
I'm also going to have a greeny dust at the joints as a deposit from the gas that it produces.
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Post by Refugee on Jul 24, 2005 12:34:03 GMT
I like the sound of the freeny dust.
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Post by BrutalDeluxe on Jul 25, 2005 1:22:42 GMT
Brushed aluminium gets my vote as the book kinda aludes to this. It would shine quite brightly when the light caught it. Although I am kinda partial to Trimm's gleeming white tripods.
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Post by Lensman on Aug 6, 2005 7:24:58 GMT
Yup, shiny bronze and brushed aluminum. The cylinders were made of a "yellowish-white metal" but that doesn't seem to have been used in the Tripods. And since they were brand-new machines, why dirty them up? Leave 'em nice and shiny. "Glittering metal" doesn't suggest they were dirty or dingy to me!
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