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The idea for this diorama came to life about two or three days before I coincidentally read the design request but it felt like I had chosen the right subject to work on... The search for the ship was quite a quest. I was really glad I stumbled upon the "Emden". The tripod's design was almost fully intuitive, I think an insect has an estranging quality to it, something non-human, which, to me at least, is somewhat frightening. That was what I tried to capture in the design. |
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Terrific diorama! I really like your conception of the tripods, very nicely done.
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Wonderful diorama.
Thunderchild was a torpedo ram according to Wells. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_ram |
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Thanks!
And well, about 'my' Thunderchild and a Torpedo ram's waterline, I guess you'll have to call it poetic license. In most depictions Thunderchild is shown as a ship that lies a little less deep in the water anyway. It is fiction after all! (-: |
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There are some other renditions of Martian War Machines in paper:
There are at least two 3D paper Tripod models on the internet. 1. https://www.deviantart.com/rocketman...odel-374281276 2. https://web.archive.org/web/20110206...pod/tripod.pdf #2 is on the Way Back Machine. This one appears to be a flying war machine. 3. The War of the Worlds - Martian War Machine Free Paper Model Download |
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@ Zakopious: Yes I was aware of all three. The last one is from the 1950's movie, which discarded the legs and made the war machines 'walk' on three invisible beams, as I was told once. Yeah, right. They just were too hard to animate and Ray Harryhausen wasn't available, I guess.
The other two are based on the Jeff Wayne version. Stiff and clumsy legs. Not the way Wells described them in his book. They were quick and nimble, like spiders. That's why I chose to make them my way. And @ Rico: about the war machines in the water, they might have legs that can extend a bit further but this is still very close to the harbour. I just didn't make the river banks. Also, in most estuaries, there are deeper dug fairways for ships to get in and out the rest often is indeed quite shallow. Perhaps the war machines made use of that feature. Who knows? it's SF after all. (-; |
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Amazing! great work as always and a great tripod design, as others have said much more in the classical style of earlier illustrations I hope the new BBC version is as good.
I liked the designs used in the History Channels The Great Martian War but I think yours are more Wells like.
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