The Official Dieselpunk Thread

[Mason]

That's quite recent. I thought it had probably been around since the 1980s or early 1990s.

Children of the Sun RPG was the first publication to use the name Dieselpunk, back in 2001. The genre has been around for a while like Steampunk has before either were named.

Speaking of punk genres, I kinda like the name Trenchpunk for the Edwardian Era, don't know why, sounds cool.

 

[Delta Force]

More fantasy oriented than dieselpunk, but still interesting. I found these images from this site (from this thread) while looking for dreadnought armor schemes:

 

[Sior]

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/12/steampunk-art-gear-drb-series.html

Some interesting stuff here!

 

[cortz#9]

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/12/steampunk-art-gear-drb-series.html

Some interesting stuff here!

I liked the "Awesome Modified Tank" page, pity I can't paste any of the pics from there on the Spec & Alt AFV threads.
Definitely not plausible AFV designs.

 

[Delta Force]

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/12/steampunk-art-gear-drb-series.html

Some interesting stuff here!

There seems to be a lot of dieselpunk and atomicpunk stuff on that website. It's popped up in other threads about massive aircraft and atomic powered aircraft, and massive atomic powered aircraft.

 

[Delta Force]

The first aircraft Howard Hughes ever built, the Hughes H-1:

 

[Delta Force]

Another air racer, the Napier-Heston Racer. It was designed to use the Napier Sabre engine, a rare H-block engine design.

 

[Delta Force]

I forgot a picture of the Napier Sabre. It's a pretty cool looking design, with the two engines facing sideways instead of up/down.

Here's a view of it from the side, with one "half" of the engine in view.

Here's the gear system.

 

[Delta Force]

Also, in keeping with some of the retro advertisements posted in this thread, here's an interesting advertisement for the Coandă 1910, an early ducted fan aircraft from 1910. The advertisement was distributed at the 1910 Paris Flight Salon, and says in French "the only aircraft without propellers" (it was powered by the ducted fan).

 

[Color-Copycat]

Sometimes 1950s aesthetic is more dieselpunk than raygun gothic. Drew this 2 weeks ago

 

[Delta Force]

Sometimes 1950s aesthetic is more dieselpunk than raygun gothic. Drew this 2 weeks ago

That's true, especially towards the earlier part of the decade.

Also, good job with the turbojet smoke trail. That's a small but nice detail.

 

[Delta Force]

Vintage Vickers armament catalogs.

 

[Delta Force]

Advertisements for the Tucker 48/Tucker Torpedo and the Tucker Carioca, two innovative cars designed by Preston Tucker.

 

[Delta Force]

The Northrop YB-35 and YB-49, two innovative flying wing strategic bombers that were the competition to the Convair B-36 Peacemaker.

 

[Delta Force]

Various land battleship designs, presumably from the Interwar Era.

 

[Delta Force]

I found these while searching for historical performance car companies. Wiesmann was a German company that produced some rather dieselpunk designs.

 

[Slowpoke]

Man, I hated those things. It was even worse in Sentinels, since unlike the original, you started encountering them around the half-way point. Suddenly 95% of your bullet weapons became useless. That silent-kill Scout build you had been steadily power-training? Worthless.

Game's mechanics shifted gears faster than a Formula 1 car.

 

[Delta Force]

The 1956 Astra-Gnome was a concept car from AMC with something of a Buck Rogers feel. Apparently 80% of people surveyed at the time wanted to purchase one if it entered production.

 

[Delta Force]

Anyone else interested in this thread? Not many comments, although I do make most of the posts in here late at night.

 

[Umbric Man]

I follow with intense interest and happiness, good sir. You have one permafan if a silent one!