DragonCon 2009 Costumes: SteamPunk

DragonCon 2009 Posts:
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Thrusday and Friday
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Saturday
DragonCon 2009 - After Action Summary, Sunday and Monday
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Super Heroes
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: Star Wars
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: misc.
DragonCon 2009 Costumes: SteamPunk
DragonCon 2009 Gun Babes
DragonCon 2009 - The Ladies of DragonCon

OK, kids. This might be a big one... it's time for the SteamPunk post. As you can see, it was something of a popular theme at Dragon this year. I'm going to pick and choose what to post, so there are more pictures in the full photobucket. And full size pics can be yours with a right-click, view-image, bla bla bla.

I've got a notion that Steam Punk is the fandom most likely to be photographed from behind. I don't know that I'll post all the backpacks and details shots, but trust me, I've got plenty of them. And if you want to check, drop me a line and I'll check to see if I've got a better picture of you.

So, to start off, here's the pics I took of the ladies at the big Brass Goggles meet-up Friday night:











Also seen around the meet up:















Everything this dude was carrying had little spring-loaded moving parts.










Here he is again, with his big-ass gun:


Booze-dispensing backpacks were extra-popular:


Another shot worked over in the GIMP so I could show her with a flash, but still see the plasma:


She gives me gun envy:



















The meet-up wasn't the only place to find steampunks around the con. Far, far from it....
































Like I said, boozepacks were very, very popular.












Not sure if its steampunk, but she made it herself:




















These two were completely festooned in vibrators. And smiles.








I love her glasses


And I kinda like what she's done with the camera here:




The brass piper of steamtown:






webbed fingers!


WEBBED FINGERS!




bite me...








And who doesn't like a nice group theme?


OK, the guy on the far left likes it a bit too much...




As you'll soon see, I love a woman with a big gun...










And just so you know, Steampunk works for the "Hyatt Back-Porch Girls" too!


Man, next year I outta try and take a few pics....

the Paratroopers are painted!

Hold the phone, y'all.

The Paratroopers are painted.

I say again, the fucking paratroopers are fucking painted!

I'd like to draw your attention to this dusty old post, just to properly set the time line here. Now, its not like I've been working on these things flat-out, non-stop for three long years. Hell, if nothing else this blog may serve as a record of all the things that distracted me from this project, which was itself the very thing I opened this blog to document. Either way, the damned things are painted, and that's a friggin' great reason to interrupt my ongoing DragonCon coverage.

Right-click and View Image or save to see full-size pics.


It doesn't look like much when you lay it all out like that, does it?

Now, there is still work to be done. Like, plants and snow. Ya, three little words there, but its going to take some doing. I'm looking at what products are available, colors and textures and the like. Its kind of a pinch, because for one we just lost one of our local hobby shops (the one most convenient to my lunch breaks, as it were) and for the other, most shops don't seem to stock winter-themed basing materials. Sure, everyone's got basic spring green grass, but once you get off the beaten path you pretty much have to special order everything.



Here's what I'm looking at, aside from a few things from the old stand bys:
From Silflor:
AUTUMN PRAIRIE TUFTS
AUTUMN TONE SYCAMORE LEAF FOLIAGE
From Gale Force 9:
Winter / Dead Static Grass

So, once all that gets in I'll start in the next wave of work, adding all the little dead plants, then covering everything in snow, ice, and slush.

For now, I'm just enjoying the glow of completion. And, since I'm waiting on the mail man, I'm flirting with some 28mm...

Anyway, here's what we've got:

HQ Elements:




1st Platoon:



2nd Platoon:


3rd Platoon:




MG Platoon:


Mortar Platoon:


Parachute Artillery Platoon:




Glider Artillery Platoon:



Glider AT Platoon:


Glider Recon Platoon:


Field Artillery Platoon: