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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: tnjrp on 30 November 2012, 11:37:12 AM

Title: Inspirational: Ron Herron's walking city concept, 1964
Post by: tnjrp on 30 November 2012, 11:37:12 AM

Might be fun to do something like this -- maybe not treat it as a whole city but perhaps a city block or something @ Hannu Rajaniemi's Martian city of Oubliette (which was made of constantly recombining subelements):
http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/project.php?id=60

The original's actually been done already in miniature but not as a commercial project AFAIK:
http://www.joerobson.co.uk/history_02.html

Title: Re: Inspirational: Ron Herron's walking city concept, 1964
Post by: Mister Rab on 30 November 2012, 09:21:52 PM

Oh, I love the Mortal Engines series. Apart from being rollicking reads, they are an absolute goldmine of steampunk/pulp/VSF/sci-fi/post-apocalyptic ideas. I enjoyed the misremembered history (like Chas Darwin) as well.

Your local library is bound to have them.

Title: Re: Inspirational: Ron Herron's walking city concept, 1964
Post by: Tom Reed on 30 November 2012, 10:12:28 PM

I saw a 6mm walking city for an alien race of centaurs, for a miniatures game, but I can't remember what game it was for.

Title: Re: Inspirational: Ron Herron's walking city concept, 1964
Post by: starkadder on 30 November 2012, 11:28:40 PM

Christopher Priest wrote something like this in 1974, It was called Inverted World and the city ran on rails.
Great book from memory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_World)