Im working on a chopper for my dad. Hes been asking for me to make him one for a while. So Im doing a steampunk chopper for him. Starting out on a steampunk chopper means a few things for me; Springer Forks, bobber seat, rigid frame, sportster tank, and all around nuts and bolts and plates, copper etc etc. It will look…
I'd suggest looking at other steampunk bikes and looking at what it is that defines them as steampunk. Maybe because your model is still relatively clean and slender looking, and not squat and bulky like a lot of steampunk tends to be. EDIT BTW - in looking at the inspiration of Jacob's model in the other thread found a…
Right right, Now that I think about it I could create an actually steam engine for it. But it was supposed to be as if it would be real in todays age, like a steampunk "themed" bike, the engine was really just a place holder. Thanks for the info. But yeah its a WIP.
I'm not getting a very steampunk feel from this bike. The materials used on it and the engine itself just don't feel very steam punky too me. Looks too modern I think is a good word for it. The model itself as a chopper looks good though so nice work on that. Steam punk usually has a lot of Copper and bolts everywhere.…
needs more rivets and gauges for sure. And I think it'd help the render of the "copper" or "bronze" wasn't so reflective. Needs to be DIRTAY! A nice specular map can fix that up real quick. Maybe the front wheel spoke can be a huge working of cogs or something. It'd be badass to see two bigass smokestacks for exhausts…