VSF Cloud

[Doc Twilight]

Hmm. No, you're all mistaken. This is one of the new Forgeworld Clouds. It will be released soon, at a price of $500., and only 17 weeks of shipping and processing to arrive at your door. GW is also copyrighting the terms "Cloud", "Cumulus", and "Nimbus".

-Doc

[Sterling Moose]

I'm 'rivetted' by this whole discussion does that count?

[Gluteus Maximus]

Hmm. No, you're all mistaken. This is one of the new Forgeworld Clouds. It will be released soon, at a price of $500., and only 17 weeks of shipping and processing to arrive at your door. GW is also copyrighting the terms "Cloud", "Cumulus", and "Nimbus".

-Doc

Figures!

Looks like at that price, I'll have to scratchbuild 

[Doc Twilight]

Fear not. If they sell well, GW will release plastic kits for half the price, angering everybody who bought a resin version.  They'll sell like hotcakes, I tells ya!

-Doc

[thejammedgatling]

This thread is full of hot air.


Oh, by the way that cloud needs more rust.

[Dewbakuk]

That little pocket of air on the right hand side shows it to be a late period cloud. I think Dr De'Ath is right, it's a Great War cloud that Thunderchicken is trying to pass off as a Victorian cloud.

Also, I don't understand how that cloud is supposed to be hovering like that. Where's the wheelhouse and the fan housing?

[argsilverson]

I hate to be argumentative, but I don't think this is a victorian cloud at all.

The shade of grey is a bit off for a Victorian cloud - I think you'll find that (given the lack of greenhouse gasses during the period) the cloud would have been a lighter shade, tending towards cream. The colour as depicted here would lead me to belive we are looking at an early WW2 era cloud, prior to the increase in aircraft combat and carpet bombing in the later war which had added a purple tint to the underside of most clouds by late October '44.

Just my opinion.

The real fact is that during victorian period the greenhouse gases emissions  were plenty.
Remember that the Industrial revolution started around 1830. IPCC [intergovernmental panell for climate chamge]puts the end of the "Little Ice Age" in 1850, when the greenhouse gases were increased rapidly. This was the evidence to make IPCC realise that the CO2 emissions are responsible for the climate change.
So, the Victorian clouds are not much different than ours!
Also remember the the London smog (described by Dickens etc) was due to the use of coal as heating fuel. The London smog was made by CO2 and sulphur oxides trapped by the hummidity.


In fact I am not sure whether it is a Victorian, Edwardian or modern era cloud. These things are indistinguishable.
Just a note: WW1 era clouds made of poisonous etc gases should very low and touching the ground almost. Chemicals used during WW1, were a little more heavy than normal cumulus etc clouds.

[Dr. The Viking]

I just read through this thread... and I still can't figure it out.

Either you guys don't have anything VSF to put up for show or that cloud has too many rivets. 

[Thunderchicken]

 

Touche chaps!!

I havent laughed so much since my dear Auntie Mabel got her beard caught in the mangle. However, I'm feeling rather crushed because my poor little (well, rather large actually) VSF cloud has been pooh poohed through the lack of a histiorical or logical context in a fictional world.

So here's what I have to do:

Add rivets (thousands of 'em).
Build a steering mechanism and some form of propulsion (other that hot air or ether).
Make sure the construction conforms to engineering standards of the period (not going to happen in my lifetime).
Get the colour scheme right to ward of historical meanderings into other periods and accusations of making it up as I go along (depends if it looks nice or not).

Tell you what, if you chaps are nice to me and let me keep the fiction bit in my VSF cloud I'll let you into a great big fat kahuna of a secret.   

[Christian]

Oooh so there WAS something going on in this thread!

[Ramshackle_Curtis]

Tell you what, if you chaps are nice to me and let me keep the fiction bit in my VSF cloud I'll let you into a great big fat kahuna of a secret.   

How nice do we have to be? Can we just get away with saying stuff like "THinderchickens model clouds are really well made and have just about the right amount of rivets(you can never have enough you know) and the colour is ok for the period but could do with more weathering?" or do we have to be REALLY nice?

[Alfrik]

I would like to point out that the photo has been chopped! In the entire photo which extends to the right side is a british areial dreadnaught, that the clouds is the steam plume as it went to flank speed in an attempt to avoid areial torpedoes!