1) Discuss designs for objects - toasters, tree houses, whatever!
2) It'd be cool to see if existing designs can be improved upon (serious or as a joke...) or what the results of some tinkering was
3) Pics of any tinkering/modifications you did and their results would be sweet :D
4) If there is a demand for it in the future I'll allow Youtube vids to be embedded too :)

If you were knighted, what would you have on your coat of arms?
I think I would have a ship, with a hammer and saw or anvil, because I am a ship's engineer.

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Captain Slog 10/01/28(Thu)19:30 UTC No. 274 File 126470702385.jpg - (316.32KB , 1280x960 , DSCF0002.jpg ) >>273 I'm always surprised how many people ask me this question. As well as running the engines that make the ship go, we have to look after electrical generators (to keep the lights on), sewage treatment plant, fresh water generators, air conditioning and all the other bits of machinery that keep the ship running.

>>	Captain Slog 10/02/10(Wed)20:11 UTC No. 275 File 126583267974.png - (95.88KB , 300x184 , 1236259528765.png ) >>273 ...but getting back on topic, what would be on your shield?

>>	Anonymous 10/02/12(Fri)07:46 UTC No. 276 >>275 well actually i already got one. my family used to be bakers in the middle ages, so we got a pretzel on our shield (no, i am not shitting you). were not blueblood, its a guild thing.

I haven't seen any decent mock up of these, or anything that fits the scale in my mind. I'm not even sure I can fathom the size of one of these. Anyone have any ideas or thoughts on a traction city?

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>>	Anonymous 10/01/14(Thu)11:57 UTC No. 269 >>150 The only really practical design is a swarm of seperate vehicles.

>>	Anonymous 10/01/23(Sat)04:25 UTC No. 270 Metroplex!

>>	Captain Slog 10/01/27(Wed)15:58 UTC No. 272 File 126460790714.jpg - (327.42KB , 1280x960 , DSCF0067.jpg ) 1. Take top off cruise ship. 2. Mount on tracks. 3. ??? 4. Profit!

We all like to think of grotto's. Secret places were we can hide things, or do things. Some people like to design sex dungeons. Others like to design secret little libraries to store forbidden books. Many people like to design bunkers to survive the apocalypse, while far fewer ever think of a simple, decent place to store there valuables in case of burglary. Secret places have served both minor cults of today and served the now major religions of old, such as Christianity, with underground shrines that would be destroyed if discovered.

Personally, I like to design small secret places to add to custom homes I design. I am starting on my architecture degree soon but dont have access to autocad software, so I have to rough it with weaker programs. I have always wanted to design a huge mansion with some secret areas. Maybe a secret lounge attached to my bedroom that I could sneak into.

tl;dr SECRET PLACE DESIGN.

Pictured is an underground spring and spa. From inside it looks hidden, but sadly from the outside it looks like a giant earth mound.

I want all of your jewellery.

old airplanes... theyre just classy

In this thread I will dump all of the objects I find personally well-designed. (similar to my wallpaper dump in /w/)

I'm interested in how a thing looks so some of these might not be designed well, but are interesting/pleasing to look at.

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>>	Omega 09/07/19(Sun)23:14 UTC No. 225 >>187 I'd have a fit if I couldn't access the data because of a physical restriction like a bar across the port.

>>	Anonymous 09/08/07(Fri)06:24 UTC No. 234 File 12496262408.jpg - (17.48KB , 675x266 , stratos_1.jpg ) >>52 Oh wow, the Lancia Stratos prototype.

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Anonymous 09/11/25(Wed)18:36 UTC No. 254 File 125917419971.jpg - (27.40KB , 500x294 , 2.jpg ) >>54 Old news, I know, but HOLY SHIT that is easily my new favorite aircraft. It's like a cool plane, an ekranoplan and a hovercraft all in one, which makes it triple awesome. http://www.ekip-aviation-concern.com/eng-b/1.shtml Sadly not much more English info, but there's this http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/ЭКИП EKIP stands for Ecology and Progress, for those who can't read sovjet-moonspeak.

This structure is CRAP.

Its not big enough! I want to see that entire Island dominated by a 300 story tall statue of FREEDOM. Right now the statue itself is only 150 ft tall, adding up to a total of 300 ft when counting its pedestal.

I am suggesting that we ram ten huge concrete poles into the soil for support, then cover the island in 80 story pedestal and make the statue 100 stories itself, with maybe an additional 25 story arm reaching up. The stature itself should be different too. I am suggesting that we lose the annoying hat and possibly expose her breasts in kinda classical form of nudity but also as a suggestion of nurturing nature. There would also be a Jesus style wreath of thorns, but with olive branches instead. She would carry the torch of freedom which would be shaped like a gladius and (now this may sound crazy) would have a form of glowing memory cloth that would seem like flames but would in fact be a stylized piece of material that reacts to electric signals pumped through it, maintaining a perpetual wavy motion like flames from a fire. The power for the entire facility would come from a closed system of tidal motion paddles (they sway back and fourth with waves and produce energy). This would mean that even when the rest of the city witnesses a power outage, the statue's huge spotlights and fake torch would never go out. I suggest that the spot lights consist of several small spotlights to evenly illuminate the statue and about five massive lights to fire a huge pillar of light into the air, making it visible from miles around.

The original statue will be put on display on the hollowed out inside of one of the feet of the new statue.

Add your own idea's.

ITT: your pick for the quintessential car of the 80s.

mine's definitely the DeLorean DMC-12. with it's spaceship shape, gull-wing doors, checkered tail lights and rear window louvers it just SCREAMS 80s. god, i want one so bad.

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>>	buckyballs!3GqYIJ3Obs 09/10/05(Mon)17:08 UTC No. 244 >>238 >>240 Oh god...British cars from the '80s...can you get any crappier? Well, maybe Soviet cars from the 80s.

>>	Anonymous 09/11/03(Tue)08:11 UTC No. 249 >>244 American cars..

>>	buckyballs!3GqYIJ3Obs 09/11/05(Thu)06:10 UTC No. 250 File 125740143153.jpg - (76.23KB , 640x480 , hrdp_0709_01_z+smokey_and_the_bandit+trans_am_run.jpg ) >>249 I dare you to say that to Burt Reynolds and his clone army...