Fritz Posted by yalaurie on Mar 17, 2012
I am working on Fritz the Steampunk puppet. He is not quite done, but here are some photos of the progress.

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Re: Fritz Posted by Na on Mar 17, 2012
Love the goggles! Steampunk is such a great concept, can't wait to see what it looks like finished.
Re: Fritz Posted by Rikka on Mar 18, 2012
Welcome Yalaurie! I am thinking about steampunk myself (and than fantasy, going in a WarCraft gnomes direction), but I still got too much on my shelf as it is- maybe next month, if things turn out... I really love Fritz, those googles are truly awesome!
Re: Fritz Posted by Lizzies Lair on Mar 18, 2012
Awesome! The goggles really give him character.

Now off to google what Steampunk actually means.... 

Re: Fritz Posted by cjwalas on Mar 18, 2012
Love it. I'm a big steampunk fan and have a couple of steampunk characters to build for my own project. Yours is coming along beautifully and I look forward to seeing how he finishes up.
Chris
Re: Fritz Posted by Shawn on Mar 18, 2012
Fritz looks great!  Did you make the goggles yourself?
Re: Fritz Posted by Na on Mar 18, 2012
Posted by: Lizzies Lair on Mar 18, 2012
Now off to google what Steampunk actually means.... 

Steampunk is basically making anything contemporary look like it came out of a Victorian clockmaker's shop
It's all about old world clothes and steam technology aesthetics and cogs combined with current ideas and mechanics. A really great example is this steampunk lego competition:
http://www.reasonablyclever.com/lego/contest/steam/grid0.html
Competitors had to design a little vignette using lego, in a steampunk theme.

Or another really way to think of it: anything in the movie "Wild Wild West" (with Will Smith) could be considerd steampunk, albeit sort of watered down.
Re: Fritz Posted by Billy D. Fuller on Mar 18, 2012
Great job on Fritz!
Re: Fritz Posted by yalaurie on Mar 18, 2012
thanks guys! Yeah I made the googles out of plumbing couplings. These ones are rubber so you can cut them. (I had to cut them in half so they weren't so deep. Then I just covered them with leather and used the coupling fasteners to keep it all in place. The couplings have a nice ridge in the middle of them so I could glue the eyeballs into and then I put a piece of plastic over it for the lens. The smaller magnifying are doll glasses from the craft store I just cut in half.
Re: Fritz Posted by Na on Mar 18, 2012
Wow, I would have said those were real goggles. Very impressive
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