Edit: there's no real point to this blog now thanks to that fucker BattyAndroit . Stealin' muh ideaz! I keed, I keed. He's put up a real quality entry for this kickass contest.
To be perfectly blunt I'm glad it's going to somebody that had an account BEFORE Collette had posted the contest.
Here's the rest of the post :P


So I woke up a few weeks ago and after brushing the taste of whiskey out of my mouth and changing into whatever clothes I stumbled upon I did what I usually do in the mornings; microwave myself a quick snack, check my email/rss feeds, and then meander my way through what's been goin' on in the land of the rising robot.
I stumbled across the contest that Colette had posted and thought to myself;

Holy crap! lookit that schweet computer, I bet if I put on some crazy shit and glue some brass tacks to my little sister's swimming goggles I could win that! I need to make an account and post up some shit of me FAST!

Actually that's not what I thought, that's just me being an unfunny dick right there. What I DID think was, what would Mr.Destructoid look like with a steampunkish makeover. A few sketches and some pondering later I decided that regardless of who won the only thing keeping me from making something was laziness so with the wife and kiddo away visiting her family I decided to break out the hookers and blow ... I mean the toolbox.

Anyways, this is what I came up with. The pictures are shit because the only camera I had at my disposal was my friend's iPhone. (you should all check out his music btw, it's super awesome)



The overall style I was going for was going for would be if the Rocketeer lived in the 1900s and had a vagina that was ravaged by the unholy mechanizations that is Mr.Destructoid. What would their cursed offspring look like? Would he fight crime and wonder why his dad spent all that alimony cash on sweet fedoras and liqueur instead of putting food on the table?




The detail of the paint doesn't come out at all (the wife took the camera with her up visitng family -_-)
The green you see is actually a combination of gold, two different coppers, and a green color dry brushed on to make it look like tarnished brass.



The jacket is actually a coat put together for my casual Halloween costume.


The idea was a sort of steampunk mad scientist. I blame Dr.Horrible for the inspiration.


The coat is actually quite nice. It has a high, mandarin styled collar and buckles at the cuffs and in the back for cinching. The lining is a maroon colored satin



Well that's that. I tip my hat to BattyAndroit, his entry is top notch but I'd be lying if I wasn't a bit envious, havin' a rugrat limits the amount of time you can use sharp objects and spray paint, haha.

Speaking of which; My Kid is Cute(tm)
He's off to his first job interview.