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Post by Max on Jul 24, 2005 6:58:08 GMT
I'm familiar with that sketch by the man on what he thought the Martians looked like.
But in the latest Fortean Times there's a sketch he did of a Tripod.
Never seen that before and its pretty small scale.
Anyone know of where on the Net it can be found?
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Post by Gnorn on Jul 24, 2005 9:00:08 GMT
I don't think it can be found on the net. Charles said the H.G. Wells society was gonna put it in one of their issues of their magazine. Hopefully he can share it with us when that issue is published.
-Gnorn
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jul 24, 2005 9:28:12 GMT
Don't get too excited chaps, I've got that issue of Fortean Times, and the sketch is not by Wells, but by Orson Welles. Unfortunately, I don't have the means to scan it at the moment. It looks like a bowler hat (but with the brim flattened, rather than curved up) with a spike on top - rather like on a pickelhaube. At the front of the crown of the hat are two evil eyes (a bit Alvim Correa-like); the three legs are spaced equidistantly beneath, and have one knee-joint half way down; each has a three-toed foot.
I recall Chrles saying the only sketch H G ever did of a fighting machine was one of his little cartoon 'picshuas', and even then it was of Jane as a tripod!
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Post by Max on Jul 24, 2005 10:07:48 GMT
Bugger. Was hoping to follow that as the definitive look for the machine.
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jul 24, 2005 10:24:36 GMT
'Fraid not, Max.
Even Wells's own Martian sketch shouldn't, IMHO, be taken as definitive - the tentacles are too short, for example.
However, Wells was greatly taken by Alvim Correa's drawings - ask Carioca on this board, he's the Correa expert.
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Post by Carioca on Jul 26, 2005 20:09:08 GMT
I'm always happy to help! Ask away!
Carioca
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