Saturday 30 July 2011

A horseless carriage ?

The King has left the museum and met Brother James who invites him down to the workshop of  the court inventor Georg Cantor to see his latest invention ...a horseless carriage
Madame Givenchy studies the drawings on the workshop desk ...
While Cantor explains the how the carriage works to the King and Brother James - apparently an application of a perpetual motion device to power the front wheel drive.

11 comments:

Springinsfeld said...

Great use of this model. Can we hope to see a balloon soon?

Capt Bill said...

You always amaze and please...

Fitz-Badger said...

seconding the previous comments. That's an unusual vehicle, but looks like the kind of horseless carriage (if such a thing existed) one might expect to find in the 18th century.
I like all the extra touches in your scenes, too; such as the various drawings, and the small table with goblets and bottles.

tradgardmastare said...

Fascinating stuff - can't wait for more...

Stryker said...

Another brilliant little post!

abdul666 said...

An amazing combination of originality, 'realism' and the eye for details!
I second the suggestion of some form of 'evolved' (dirigible) montgolfiere / charliere... The 'rococo' decoration of the gondola would probably be the harder part.

abdul666 said...

Re. 18th C. Dirigibles, as a first modeling project, this one should probably be over-ambitious -so much the more as to look 'Lace Wars' it would need exuberant rococo decoration, just like a royal coach :)
Now, another possible source of Lacepunk inspiration...

Douglas said...

You responded admirably to the challenge, lets see what I can find next.

tidders2 said...

The word around the palace is that Cantor is indeed planning a hot air balloon of some form.

-- Allan

abdul666 said...

"Cantor is indeed planning a hot air balloon of some form."
Cheers!
Maybe at first a prototype like these, then a fully developed dirigible airship?
The Aether Winds, Orgone, Vril... are so much more elegant sources of power than this dirty, noisy, nauseating 'steam engines'!

Prince Lupus said...

'tis withcraft methinks