freaky cool.. but you'd burn your eye balls LOL.very nice effect author.. (this is going to be an amazing contest, I can tell)

The foreground lens should have some of the stuff behind it showing through...

wow awesome!

great job but cmyk is right try fixing the front lenses

It looks GREAT! Good job!!

cool! good job

See-thru-lens... right.. thanks guys.

now it's realy a prize winner!

great idea and nicely constructed.

wonderful image... very realistic... good luck...

Interesting. The near side of the front lenses is thin, yet the far side seems to be very thick. Shouldn't a fourth supporting rod be visible on the far side as we look through the front lenses? Also, the view through the near front lens doesn't seem to be quite the right color to be the background. (You got lucky with the far front lens.)

Love it!

nice!

nice work

Oh how great would it be, to drive with one of these! I love all the bull's-eyes! (I hope, that is the right translation) And the railing! Aaaah... I'm in love

Edit: Oh, it's you!

Hi Lelaina! Those are called portholes. Thanks for your comment!

Aaah thanks! Always good to learn something new And you're welcome of course

wow really awesome!

Good job!!

i have no idea how you guys make these things so well....grrr im getting nowhere with mine lol... well done author, looks good

Cute and maybe a bit cartoony--but I'm not sure that's quite the steampunk style. I think lighting is the problem. Light from above (not the side) would be more realistic and then adjust the shadows on the subs accordingly. (BTW the shadows on the subs don't even match the apparent light direction here.) [Some fish brushes to add fish in the background might increase the feeling of depth.]

Really good idea, and I'm a huge steampunk fan, and this is "ok" theme wise, but steam punk has nothing to do with cartoon anything... Your big sub has some major issues w/ perspective, and the whole thing is lit wrong from your light source.

I've always thought of the whole steampunk genre as cartoony...it's a parody crossbreed of Victoriana and Sci-fi. How can the big sub have perspective issues when it's a duplicate of the real thing? Did you look at the SBS?
PS: Lighting upgraded.

I don't see *much* difference in lighting, the tank under the lil sub should have much more shadow, the light source and the tanks/sub above would be blocking most of the light on that part, so should the back side of the big sub, and Yeah I saw your source.

awesome work author!! i know the sub in the background! it's in barcelona next to an aqua museum.. i think..

Great picture but not quite on theme..Really get into the mechanics of things...Show the steam power

"Steampunk" doesn't mean literally steam powered. It's a genre concept!

I understand the concept of steampunk..Here's an idea show me the mechanics of the subs and not just them floating around...Just my opinion

i think it's very on theme. as well as your other entry.

Very nice entry.. looks fantastically steam punk!

very nice! gl

Love this one.. I WANNA RIDE!!!!!

just...AWESOME !!!

Fantastic pic.

Very good, you might want to correct the sail on the left in the middle: it's got some green shining through.

Not very steampunk to me...

i do like this but at the same time i also get a salvador dali feel still it is good work author.

Like the mood. Don't get the three-blade-propeller-whirl thing. More fundamentally, 'steampunk' would suggest moving beyond the old-fashioned technology of sailing ships into the brave new world of mechanical steam-powered ships. And that's an awfully big dolphin in that bag. I would call it a whale.

Very nice, i love the mood on this one.

Cool work! Good Luck

very good!

cool

right on theme.. might want to alter the perfectness of the smoke. the mirror effect is quite identical.. not a bad thing.. but you have plenty of time to alter it if you want too

SMOKE LOOKS GREAT NOW!!!

Well smoke were made in a hurry... I will be altering it...

Edit: Smoke altered... Hope it's better Golem

Thnxs all and richi too... Well it was suppose to be a flying steam punk head lol...

Yo................................Bro....................Finally you finished it............. Did you even sleep last night.................. Anyway...The hard work paid off......Its looking great....don know but feeling that the body is missing...............lol...................High Marks......Man....... See ya............

WTF...................... Saw the SBS later.

great!

Very nice! Very steampunky.. i think this image could use a bit more contrast though. The mid section of the gun also looks a little over-liquified, but still very nice. Good luck!!

Edit: Now that i look a little better, your trigger could use some depth, it looks a bit painted on at the moment.

Cool gun, but looks more high tech than made of gear or operated by steam...

But hell, that would really blow the @&& outta H. G. Wells lol...

Edit: Hello, I am not saying it's not steampunk... The meaning of steampunk is really diluted but steampunk is originally based on machanics that operates on steam, thats why the name steampunk... Sheesh can't I offer my own view as you have given yours...

Also it's high tech in the sense in the period of victorian era... They actually didn't have lasers back then in victorian era...

HELLO!!! "Steampunk" does NOT mean "operated by steam"! It's a genre that blends Victoriana and high tech. Sheesh....

great source images and nice work...

Arkncheese, please check this out: http://en.allexperts.com/e/s/st/steampunk.htm Steampunk has very little to do with steam power.
The inventor of the term "steampunk" and the definition: http://www.answers.com/topic/steampunk-1

"Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where "Steam power" is still widely used usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path "" from wikipedia...

Here it is mentioned steampunk is based on era where steam power was prominent... So what does that means... Also I didn't mean to say your idea is wrong, I just stated my own opinion... Also everyone has their own style to represent steampunk in their own... You didn't depict steam power that's your style well I may show steam power...

Edit: I maybe not as old fan as you were since 1987 but I still know my way around steampunk...

The retro version of "cyberpunk" (a futuristic, online delinquent). Coined by science fiction author K.W. Jeter, steampunk novels combine high-tech fantasy with Victorian era surroundings. In addition, people like to use the steampunk theme with modern electronics, making them look like they were built in the 19th century.
I've been a steampunk fan since before Jeter coined the term in 1987.

gaaaahaaa the trigger looks fine to me! what COULD use some work is the scope, it doesnt look right. right now it looks like its attached to the side of tthe gun i dont think you meant to do that because the actual scope is on the top of the gun and some tiny parts of the gun should be more 3-d looking but other thatn that, the gun is awesome!

I agree with Tuckinator.. that cope should be further on the top..

The scope is purposely offset to acommodate those goggles where one lens is longer than the other. Here are some other examples of offset scopes: http://www.wetanz.com/rayguns/

In my opinion, you had it looking best at the step 6 level of your SBS...should have left it in color, sorry the simulated sepia tone just isn't working for me, great job creating the gun though

Hey is that replacing the lazer guns our cops like using over here lol.....i think its a fine image author, my own entry doesn't run on steam, but i go the impression that steampunk era was about inventions with metal/brass.... goodluck.

looks abit like a toy gun....maybe thats what you meant the scope is a little of,f and the trigger looks a bit imbeded in the finger gl to you

LOL...toy gun? That sucker would make even your SHADOW a memory!