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It’s been a while since I’ve built anything Adventurer’s specific, so I took a
little time last night to build a steam-powered vehicle for Dr. Kilroy.
This is a total case of form following function. My goal was to make something
that looked like it would actually work, as opposed to something that looked
nice.
The treads are each independantly driven, allowing the vehicle to turn. Dr.
Kilroy controls the movement by increasing and decreasing the amount of steam to
each piston using the levers near the base of his seat.
I’ve always pictured the Dr. as being a little scattered-brained. In this case,
he got so caught up in making the vehicle move, that he forgot to include any
room for cargo, or other passengers. To compenstate, he added attachments for a
shovel and pick so that he could tell Johnny Thunder and crew that the vehicle
was useful for excavations.
This was a fun little build. I’m hesitant to call it Steampunk, though that’s
originally what I was going for. In this case though, it turned out more steam
and less punk.
Brickshelf gallery:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=219486
Comments always appreciated!
-Elroy
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I like this! It has the rudimentary look of a new innovation, and you can almost
see Kilroy’s pride ;) Form has always followed function anyway ; ) I am posting
a link to your post on EB (for the adventurer lovers there...).
God Bless,
Nathan
Visit my brickshelf gallery:
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In lugnet.adventurers, Nathan Todd wrote:
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I like this! It has the rudimentary look of a new innovation, and you can
almost see Kilroy’s pride ;) Form has always followed function anyway ; ) I
am posting a link to your post on EB (for the adventurer lovers there...).
God Bless,
Nathan
Visit my brickshelf gallery:
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I certainly enjoyed your creation. Dr. K seems a tad hare-brained - it doesn’t
faze him to be sitting on the nose of an enormous pressure vessel that could go
sky-high at any time. And that’s the way it should be - the true Adventurer
spirit.
Plus, this really does look like something that could work. As if it might have
been a steam-powered tank from a little known war fought in the late 1800s,
where the steam tanks easily overran enemy trenches but, of course, never ran
any troops over, who were always tipped off that the tank was coming by its
characteristic chuga-chuga sound...
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