War of the Worlds - Off the Coast by Michael_C
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Description
The British cruiser Thunder Child engages attacking Martian tripods just off the English coast. A small wing of fighter aircraft joins the battle. Inspired by a Roger Dean book illustration of War of the Worlds.
The bug-like Martian war machine is the (surprisingly un-versatile) Steampunk Tripod from DAZ. The warship is Chris Shell's free SMS Emden WW1 German Scout Cruiser, reflagged. H.G. Wells wrote War of the Worlds in 1897, before powered flight, but as the cruiser I used dates to WW I, I decided to move the time line forward and add aircraft using the RAF SE-5A from Neil Wilson's 4 WWI Aircraft freebie. The laser and explosions are from Shaaramuse3D and ship cannon flashes from are the Lewis Gun. The aircraft machine gun flashes were added from GunPlay! in post work The sea and sky are from Big Blue.
Composed and rendered In Poser 11 Pro with some Corel Photo Paint post work.
Comments (2)
mazzam
Nice to a point but those Explosion Eff props are not even partially realistic. There is no physical process for an explosion that gives off opaque black smoke. Maybe an oil well fire, but you don't expect to find that at sea.
jdwtrxk
Agree with mazzam - explosions could be other then white if coal gets involved - the photos of Queen Mary exploding at Jutland come to mind. Cutting back on the opacity might work.
Like pushing forward the timeline as Thunder Child was described as an 'ironclad ram', a term a little out of use by 1897. Why not a typical 4 stack British cruiser? would have been neat to see Emden or Karlsruhe providing international support :)