Steampunk C-130 Idea

[Cobra]

Hey Guys, i was Doing some Thinking when i Got an Idea:What If someone Built a Steampunk C-130? after Strating to get into Steampunk it just Seemed Natural to Try it. What say You? Thanks For Looking. Dan

[perttime]

Thinking?
That is dangerous! Better just do it and then ask for forgiveness 

[The Rat]

That big fuselage would take a good sized boiler. Big pipe out the top, maybe twin-tails to avoid cleaning too much soot off a central one. Props that look rather like a windmill style, and, of course, the whole thing would be brass or copper, with huge rivets.

[Old Wombat]

That big fuselage would take a good sized boiler. Big pipe out the top, maybe twin-tails to avoid cleaning too much soot off a central one. Props that look rather like a windmill style, and, of course, the whole thing would be brass or copper, with huge rivets.

And armoured turrets ... Don't forget them!

[kerick]

Brass tubing running all over the outside. Open cockpit. Control cables and rigging wires!

[perttime]

Thin wings: just spars and ribs with fabric covering on top.

[zenrat]

Fixed undercarriage.  With spats.

[kerick]

With all these ideas you'll just have to start from scratch!

[Joe C-P]

Semi-biplane, with rigging.
Steam engines!

[Daryl J.]

Four steam engines running windmill-like propellors.   Suspended below a great big helium gas bag.   

[jcf]

Four steam engines running windmill-like propellors.   Suspended below a great big helium gas bag.   

Props like Maxim's 1894 machine.

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/maxim.html

[Old Wombat]

With all these ideas you'll just have to start from scratch!

No! No! No! No! There must always be a starting point!




Kinda like those rivet-counters who buy a $70 kit, then buy about $350 of resin & PE detailing parts & end up with about 5% of the original kit left.

[McColm]

Is that a wood burner or coal fired?

[zenrat]

Is that a wood burner or coal fired?

Nuclear fusion?

[McColm]

So lead lined underpants would be standard issue?