{"id":711,"date":"2008-04-16T07:50:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T11:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2008-04-11T09:44:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T13:44:14","slug":"steampunk-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"Steampunk Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/sp_vader.thumbnail.jpg' class='contentimg' alt='Lord Vader' \/>Brilliant action-figure modder Sillof has already done the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/C-Gaslight.htm\">Gaslight Justice League<\/A> and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/C-Vict-Avengers.htm\">Victorian Avengers<\/A>.  Now he&#8217;s tackled Star Wars, with gorgeous results.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><B>Darth Vader<\/B><\/p>\n<p>Unlike my  ReVision Vader, I stripped away the samurai influence on Vader.  To capture that European feel I used title \u201cLord Vader\u201d, as Tarkin calls him, as the inspiration.  My imperials are meant to have that Eastern European\/German feel that the film version had somewhat.  Vader\u2019s flared out helmet is no longer a samurai look but now a more Prussian spiked helmet.  His fierce angular face mask that helped with his breathing is now a modified gas mask.  The patina chest armor is a homage to his classic shinny black armor.  The clunky lightsaber is connected to a power pack via the tube.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/C-Steampunk-SW.htm\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brilliant action-figure modder Sillof has already done the Gaslight Justice League and Victorian Avengers. Now he&#8217;s tackled Star Wars, with gorgeous results. Darth Vader Unlike my ReVision Vader, I stripped away the samurai influence on Vader. To capture that European feel I used title \u201cLord Vader\u201d, as Tarkin calls him, as the inspiration. My imperials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}