Steampunk Booster Costume Ideas


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I will only say this regarding bright colors and the origins of steampunk; steampunk as a term is recent, but the genre rightfully belongs to Jules Verne, H.G. Welles and their contemporaries for imagining clockwork time machines, steam powered submarines and the like.

Colors belong to the 20th and 21st centuries; it's part of our lexicon, part of our paradigm.
This is simply incorrect, sorry.

I know costumers who specialize in that period of time for both film and dollmaking, and the Victorian era was extraordinarily colorful. You don't even have to believe me, just go to Amazon and look at books specializing in that era. Blaming that look on Hollywood is spurious at best. Anyone who takes a History of Photography class is immediately disabused of the notion that color clothing is a recent invention. Or a tour of a museum. Look at the extraordinary range of colors of common fashion from the Civil War. It wasn't just fancy gowns worn by Southern belles, and our perceptions aren't colored by Gone With the Wind; the opposite, in fact, is what happened.

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Just look at movies before the advent of color and after it was introduced. And the difference between the beginning of color film and digital grading. The original works and the fashions and sensibility of Victorian England just...wasn't colorful. It was repressed, puritanical and god-fearing. That's not hyperbole on my part, either. And I'm really not trying to argue a point.
You may not think it's hyperbole, but it's certainly an inaccurate impression of that time. Victorian era people looked like peacocks half the time.

In some areas poor people didn't wear much color because dyed clothing was too expensive, but even then most everyone owned *some* colored outfits, and the upper class definitely did. Just look at old color photos and you can see that color is everywhere, from England to America to Russia to Japan. But visit NYC in the winter and it seems like 95% of everyone wears black.


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how about goin country with it?
Yee-HAW!

All the credit is yours for this one:




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Stop talking about colour customization here, it won't solve anything! Post it in the feedback thread, and let people here post more screenshots!


 

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Three more and you have a barbershop quartet. As it is, he's more of a one man band...



Edit: Doh! Forgot his bow tie!


 

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Super sexy (if not dangerously close to famous villain) cat burglar any one?


 

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I might have found a fire blaster I like in Prairie Blaze.



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I might have found a fire blaster I like in Prairie Blaze.



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A while back, I made a character called the Knave of Trumps. She was a mercenary from the Wonderland Wars. A card of many suits, if you will. She left Wonderland through a rabbit hole and ended up in the Pocket D. She hasn't returned home since.

Well, the Queen of Hearts does not take kindly to deserters. No, she does not. To that end, she has dispatched her Royal Hunter to retrieve the Knave.

Soon*, the dreaded Cheshire Grinn shall stalk the Rogue Isles.






* Probably around June 1st.


 

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Yarrr!
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Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

 

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Playing around, making an explorer/space airship sort of guy...



Trying to go for a closed helmet look gave me this rather menacing character...



I'll admit that I'm not a huge fan of the steampunk guns since they just seem pointless. They already had working guns in that era, after all. Hopefully they'll eventually make them tintable since, ironically, they'd make better pulp 50's Sci-Fi blasters than they do steampunk firearms if only you could color them something besides gray and brown.


 

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If all goes well in my linkage/postage of pics, you'll see my new twin Victorian Steampunker's. The female is 'the Magician Queen' while her brother is 'The Victorian Lad'.












I based her's more on a contemporary and slightly less cliche magician, while his is more suave Victorian man. Let me know what you guys think.


 

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Wow, I really like this. The vanguard chest piece goes really well with those pieces. Job well done.


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If all goes well in my linkage/postage of pics, you'll see my new twin Victorian Steampunker's. The female is 'the Magician Queen' while her brother is 'The Victorian Lad'.
I noticed pretty quick that you can use the mesh top with the new chest details. Your use of it is pretty good.


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I noticed pretty quick that you can use the mesh top with the new chest details. Your use of it is pretty good.
Thanks! I was looking for something that gave off a magician vibe, but still covered her up well enough. It just seemed to be perfect for her.


 

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Oh snap! Battle-Hardened's maid outfit needs an update!


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Should I give Battle-Hardened's maid outfit cat ears? I really should, shouldn't I?

Also: She is Maid for battle!


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I used the Vanguard rifle because it's the only decent rifle in the game that's not incredibly tiny, and for this one it kind of had to be big.
And of course, that has NOTHING to do with how you seem to really enjoy large things, eh?

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Should I give Battle-Hardened's maid outfit cat ears? I really should, shouldn't I?
No... no you shouldn't. There is a catgirl plague in some areas.



 

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* Probably around June 1st.
That is SOOOO many shades of awesome that I think you broke the awesome palette as a whole!



 

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I'm sure most of you can guess where I got inspiration for this one:


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Should I give Battle-Hardened's maid outfit cat ears? I really should, shouldn't I?

Also: She is Maid for battle!
Yes... you should


 

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Yes... you should


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Tada!
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So I was looking at the Steampunk skirt and thought "Man that skirt kinda looks like wings" and then this happened


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This is simply incorrect, sorry.

I know costumers who specialize in that period of time for both film and dollmaking, and the Victorian era was extraordinarily colorful. You don't even have to believe me, just go to Amazon and look at books specializing in that era. Blaming that look on Hollywood is spurious at best. Anyone who takes a History of Photography class is immediately disabused of the notion that color clothing is a recent invention. Or a tour of a museum. Look at the extraordinary range of colors of common fashion from the Civil War. It wasn't just fancy gowns worn by Southern belles, and our perceptions aren't colored by Gone With the Wind; the opposite, in fact, is what happened.



You may not think it's hyperbole, but it's certainly an inaccurate impression of that time. Victorian era people looked like peacocks half the time.

In some areas poor people didn't wear much color because dyed clothing was too expensive, but even then most everyone owned *some* colored outfits, and the upper class definitely did. Just look at old color photos and you can see that color is everywhere, from England to America to Russia to Japan. But visit NYC in the winter and it seems like 95% of everyone wears black.
Same thing happens to ancient Greeks. All the statues and buildings paint wore off, so nothing but white marble remained. But the Greeks tended to bright, gaudy colors.


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