Airship Angel

Perhaps from the more gaming style of fantasies than traditional, but still as fantastic as the oldest of them. The airship angel might not be related to any planar realm, but she still flies perfectly fine. Either an airship or with her own wings!

Co-Pilot and Familiar Red Mage Owl comes in handy for navigational instructions and the airship angel managed not to crash into anything while flying! What? Owls have an excellent eyesight to be scouts with, especially magical ones.

Or perhaps the pair simply cheated and never flew at all, simply posed for pictures. Maybe the ship flies with angelic energies and does not even need to be guided, simply willed to travel.

You can become an airship angel and acquire your own airship at Fantasy Faire!

The airship by Garden of Dreams and the dress by Panda Express can be found in Lumenaria, the makeup by Beautiful Freak is in the Crimson Fields, the hair by Analog Dog is available in The DragonSpire and the poses and plushie owl by c( Two Cats ) and the wings by Lemon Tea are in the same shop in Evensong Woods.

Scene: Airship: Garden of Dreams – The Airship

Body: Skin: League – Sia Fair Bloom | Hair: Analog Dog – Scene Again* | Hands: Slink – Mesh Hands (av) Casual | Eyes: NoirOptix – Pale Violet Eyes | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Makeup: Beautiful Freak – Odetta Red*

Outfit: Dress: Panda Express - SteamLust Cyber Relay For Life | Boots: Schadenfreude – Leith Boots | Owl Plushie: c( Two Cats ) - Red Mage Owl Plushie Small* | Wings: {Lemon Tea} Aithein Wings

Poses: c( Two Cats ) – Magical 2 | Magical 4 | Magical 5

52 Colours: Papaya Whip

Papaya whip is apparently the colour you get if mashed papayas are blended with whipped cream. It’s an extremely pale orange, for some screen settings it could be near white. For me this spelled either spring dresses or vintage lingerie. Guess which one I picked!

My Miss Papaya Whip turned into virtual cosplay. I knew I wanted period sheer fripperies with a corset, but by the time I was trying on blonde hairs I had a revelation: it was Agatha Heterodyne from Girl Genius! After I got over the squee-attack, I added steampunk spectacles by *Amaranthus* (old hunt gift) and LoveBug necklace by Maxi Gossamer from Collabor88 to maximize the effect. The extra goggles are by ezura from Steam the Hunt. It’s a well-known fact that you can never have too many goggles!

The necklace is of course a nod toward her trilobite locket, the symbol of House Heterodyne. None of the look is 100% match, but I think for cosplay it gets pretty close. The deliciously scandalous and indecent clothing by Sn@tch is referring to the times she only worked on inventions when sleepwalking and wandered around labs in her undergarments.

The surroundings are Ethercruiser by Urban Forge Virtuatecture. It’s their prize in the current Steam the Hunt and has several floors filled with awesome machinery, library, maps, control room and living space. The gadget she’s holding is from Twisted Hunt, The Fatal Familial Insomniac by [ContraptioN]. I must say that I’m not sure if she’s going to cure her own sleepwalking with it or test it on someone else first…

Scene: Urban Forge Virtuatecture – Ethercruiser (Steam the Hunt)

Body: Skin: Glam Affair – Giselle Light Kajira D | Eyes: IKON – Horizon Eyes v2 (dark turquoise XL) | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Hair: Exile – Lost in Wonderland (Chardonnay)

Outfit: Clothes: Sn@tch – Dahlia Lace Crop Top (gold), Patrona Corset (gold), We Are Stardust Sheer Capris (peach)* | Necklace: Maxi Gossamer – LoveBug (short) | Glasses: *Amaranthus* – Lacy: Rust: Steampunk Spectacles | Goggles: ezura – Steampunk Goggles (Steam the Hunt)| Held head item: [ContraptioN] – The Fatal Familial Insomniac (Twisted Hunt)

Poses: Amato – pose play01 / N/A / !bang – Stand 137

Captain Escargot

In case you haven’t realized yet: it’s Steam time! Steam the Hunt is going on again and you can find the shop slurls, hints and pictures of prizes here. The pocket watch is a prize by *Amaranthus* and is of course normally at the waist, like it should be.

Captain Escargot is named after my favourite prize of this round,  Escargot-a-vapeur by Sextan Shepherd. It’s one of the many prizes in a mini hunt at Joy of Steampunk Museum. This particularly fancy snail-mobile has plenty of living areas inside and is perfect for fashionably eccentric steam captains. If you like steampunk, but don’t have time for the whole hunt, this spot is what I recommend. It’s fun to explore and you can get the hunt gifts while oggling about.

The Time Watcher’s Gear (goggles and pack) is by [ContraptioN] and the Knight of Darkness outfit & hat are by RokumeikaN. The latter is a prize from Twisted Hunt, I just liked them together. Both hunts last for the whole of September, so there’s still plenty of time to cam about.

Now all we have to do is wonder what does a time watcher see through those goggles, while travelling around on a steam snail-mobile…

Scene: Sextan Shepherd - Escargot-a-vapeur (Steam Hunt: Joy of Steampunk Museum Mini Hunt)

Body: Skin: Glam Affair – Roza – Natural 03 D | Hair: Wasabi Pills – Cookie Mesh Hair (Night Shadow)

Outfit: Suit & Hat: RokumeikaN – Knight of Darkness (Twisted Hunt) | Watch: *Amaranthus* – Flower Medallion: Copper/Vapor: Pocket (Steam the Hunt) | Goggles & Pack: [ContraptioN] – The Time Watcher’s Gear (Steam the Hunt)

Poses: Niqotine Poses – KissMyGunM20 | D.Luxx Poses – The Vintage – Sugar Smacks 05 & Tootsie Roll 09

Crowbar Engineer

If everything else fails, get a bigger hammer. Or a crowbar. Perfect engineering rule! This particular character started with the steampunk bandana by Calico Ingmann Creations, available in Hair Fair. Remember that Bandana Day is on Sunday! There’s a bandana booth in every sim for easy shopping.

The tweed capris and Marching Orders corset are both by Sn@tch, perfect for a tomboy with a feminine twist. I love Ivey’s corsets and the buttons and patterns in this one mixed military order with an extremely cleavage-friendly cut, making it perfect for both posing and ass-kicking.

The Nostalgia-boots are a new release by lassitude & ennui, a more romantic take on the Wanderlust-boots. Girly tomboy to boot. Excuse the pun. The boathouse by Greeny Beetle is from The Rebel’s Playground Hunt, same with the eyes by Rozena, poses by Amato and handwraps by Mulholland.

Now to find out who or what exactly left the door open…

Credits – Scene: Greeny Beetle. – Raven’s Boathouse (TRPH)

Credits – Body: Skin: Glam Affair – Roza Natural 03 D | Eyes: ROZENA – Real Black Eye (TRPH) | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Makeup: La Malvada Mujer – Mechanical and Reasoned 

Credits – Outfit: Top: Sn@tch – Marching Orders Corset Brown* | Pants: Sn@tch – Tweed Capris Brown* | Boots: lassitude & ennui – Nostalgia Boots Sepia* | Bandana: Calico Ingmann Creations – Bandana 2012 Womens (Hair Fair) | Scarf: *Connors* – Scarf and Oops Bob is! | Earrings & Armlet: KOSH – Rapture | Handwraps: Mulholland – Rebel Bandages (TRPH) | Belt: Sweet Leonard & Needful Things – Bloody Skull Belt (Old ZPH) | Crowbar: ^Re.Birth^(from earlier hunts)

Credits – Poses: *.amato.* – pose play 04, 05, 01 (TRPH)

 

 

 

Steam for Five Hundred

There’s another 500L Avatar Challenge going on and they are always so much fun that I had to poke at it. The idea is to make a new avatar under 500L, everything used must be available and accessible now, so you cannot use old hunt prizes and such. The last time I made a sorceress, a goth and a rocker, so this time I focused on steampunk. I like doing something out of the norm casuals for these challenges, because roleplayers need shopping guides, too! The clothes and goggles took most of the budget, but they were so worth it. The pants and the jacket can be found in League’s discount area upstairs and the goggles are by Grim Bros., because you can’t talk about SL steampunk and not mention them. The jewelry by KOSH was just 2L altogether (from their discount basement) and the hair (Exile), shoes (lassitude & ennui) and the lipstick (M.O.C.K. Cosmetics) are freebies. The skin is a group gift by bilo (50L to join the group) and I used it for both characters. The other girl being a more doll-styled gaslight romance heroine. The dress is an old Steam Hunt gift by Orquidea, but fortunately it’s for sale in the shop and thus still available. I love all their hunt gifts, it’s a delightful store. The cutesy ribboned pigtails are a group gift by Lo*momo (group free to join) and I got tattoo lashes by *BOOM* for 25L to add to the skin’s makeup. Eyes are from KOSH’s discount room, just 1L. Speaking of lassitude & ennui, there’s plenty of wonderful footware perfect for steampunk when you’re not trying to build a whole avatar with 500L. These Miss Dandy shoes were very affordable on the Marketplace, though, so both my girls wear Jackal’s things! The stockings are a freebie by *Sheer*. I picked the poses from my regular HUDs, so no guarantees about their prices. The location is of course New Babbage, an excellent stop for a newbie steam personage.

Adventurer Credits: 483L
Shape: self made
Skin: bilo – Pixie (Nasreen Skin Preview) – Group Gift (50L)
Hair: Exile – Eva/blackberry – freebie
Lipstick: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics – Sahne Bitter Chocolate – Wearable Demo
Jacket: League – Leather Jacket (195L)
Pants: League – Wild Angel Leather Pants (125L)
Shoes: lassitude & ennui – Laudanum Shoes black/silver – freebie
Necklace: KOSH – Rapture Necklace – 1L
Earrings: KOSH – Rapture Earrings – 1L
Goggles: Grim Bros. – Sepia Gogglets – 111L

Dolly Credits: 426L
Shape: self made
Skin: bilo – Pixie (Nasreen Skin Preview) – group gift (50L)
Hair: Lo*momo – GroupGift (Apr 2012) – still available, group free to join
Eyes: KOSH – Crystalline Eyes 8 – 1L
Tattoo lashes: *BOOM* – Love my eyes Liner and Mascara medium – 25L
Dress: Orquidea – Steampunk Doll – 200L
Shoes: lassitude & ennui – Miss Dandy Bronze Gears Shoes – 150L
Tights: *Sheer* – Zebra Tights – freebie

Poses: Glitterati – Drink 4 / aDORKable Poses – Love Gun II GroundSit 2 / Art Body Store – My Cute Wings 09 / WetCat – Modeller 4

52 Colours: Rust

Miss Rust was originally meant to be a rusting robot of some sort, but since the colour is actually all perky near-orange instead of a darker rustier tone, I went with something cuter and just explored a slightly darker sim.

The sim is A Rusted Development and it’s both breathtaking and intriguing to explore. There’s surprises and walkways and hidden areas all around.

Miss Rust is accompanied by her pet urpy, one of the creatures by Booshies. This one is so friendly that it likes to curl around your shoulders and mimic a stole. Perfect solution: pet and fashion!

The lament for lack of robotics aside, the vibe of slight insanity accompanied by nostalgic tones of decaying machinery cityscape fit the character perfectly. Who knows why she dances, but dance she will~

Credits: Dress: Frick – Alice in Pumpkin | Stole Creature: Booshies – Urpy Neck Warmer* | Hat: ~Illusions~ Gaslight Top Hat (tinted) | Shoes: lassitude & ennui – Miss Dandy Bronze Gears (tinted) | Skin: Mother Goose’s – Trudy-III(tan)LB | Makeup: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics – Ginger Chocolate Makeover & Opal Lipcolor Mocha | Hair: Exile – Josie (Rust) | Poses: LAP – TC-Timid Girl PR4 / aDORKable Poses – Love Gun Stand 2 / WetCat – F4

Aerosteam Adrenaline

I’m sure it’s no surprise that one of my favourite forms of steampunk is the airship piracy one. It combines the dashing romantic piracy with flying and you all know how I love all things related to flying.

The latest release by Dare Designs, Adrenaline, was the perfect uniform for my pirate captain. The rows of buttons and the shoulderpads just called for one. It comes with boots, but I used these overknee lassitude & ennui ones instead. The black snakeskin simply spoke to me.

I doubt the outfit was meant solely for pirates, the hat is my own addition. (Old hunt gift by AZE Designs.)  I just tend to look at things and see characters. This also provided the perfect opportunity to remind everyone that Steam the Hunt ends soon. Just a few more days to pick up, say, this fantastic mini-airship by Bondar-Foehammer Aerosteam Co.

As for the make-do hangar I simply used one of the gorgeous skyboxes by Spessart and made some of the walls and ceiling transparent. For the jewelry I wanted fancy skulls. Donna Flora’s Opera Skull provided the perfect solution. With the accessorizing complete, it’s finally time to fly~

Steam the Hunt: Airship: Bondar-Foehammer Aerosteam Co.  - Mini-Airship Aurora v1.5

Other Credits: Outfit: Dare Designs – Adrenaline Red* | Boots: Lassitude & Ennui –  overknee boots snakeskin black | Skin: League – Sia Fair Bloom | Hair: lamb. – Bang Bang Ink | Eyes:  Poetic Colors - classic – frozen silver (m) bright | Make-up: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics –  Pandora’s Gingersnaps and Champange [lip/lash/eye] | Jewelry: Donna Flora – Opera Skull | Hat: AZE Designs - Poe Toaster Pirate’s Hat | Poses: !bang – Stand 135 / aDORKable Poses – 17 of 25 | Skybox: Spessart - Skybox I*

*complimentary copies

52 Colours: St. Patrick’s Blue

With such a lovely, strong blue I went immediately back to my roots and dove into the Silent Sparrow folder. Miss St. Patrick’s Blue — boy is that a mouthful — turned out to be a mix of period classy with a touch of goth and steampunk. Just the way I like it.

I chose the setting from the numerous steampunk builds you can get from Steam Hunt. This one is a sub-house by Fort Weka. The parasol by Julia Collection is from the hunt as well. I have a definite weakness for parasols, they mix whimsy with class and are always fun.

I swear I’ve worn these Selene-boots by Lassitude & Ennui in every possible colour by now, but I can’t help it. They go with everything! All the things!

I also want to point out the breathtaking clockwork collar by Hebenon Vial. There’s a closing sale going on at the moment, so I’m warmly recommending visiting before it’s too late.

Steam Hunt: Steampunk sub-house: Fort Weka | Parasol: Julia Collection – Victorian Parasol

Skin: *YS & YS* – Ginevra Winter | Eyes: Poetic Colors – Aurora | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Make-up: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics - Memories of Mardi Gras Makeover & Opal Lipcolor Matrix | Hair: Wasabi Pills – Dedrick Sapphire | Hat with butterflies: Heartsick – Twisted Topper Unseelie (fall 2011) | Outfit: Silent Sparrow – Helena swimsuit top & grimly skirt (lolita) | Wrist tattoo: Silent Sparrow – belladonna: lepidoptera | Tights: C&D Benelli – Pantyhouse Full Deko | Boots: Lassitude & Ennui – Selene black/brown* | Collar: Hebenon Vial – Clockwork Collar Burlesque | Poses: !SyDS! – CH2012 pose#3 / TeaSoup – blossoming / aDORKable Poses – Chill 7m

*complimentary copy

Something Old, Something New

I wasn’t going to blog today, but then I bought a coat. Then I needed a fun place to pose in. Then I glanced at the Great SL Photo Hunt list and… well, here we are. Three themes in two pictures: #76 something old and #77 something new, both happening in a version of #9 you at the Eiffel Tower.

The traditional Eiffel Tower is situated in Les Champs-Elysees and I paired it with this gorgeous Dark December dress by Dare Designs. It is at the moment in one of his Fashion for Life vendors, so go shop while the event is still running! I’d also like to point out that Lassitude & Ennui stays in style through the centuries: both girls are wearing Jackal’s boots!

The more modern version of Eiffel Tower can be found here. It’s called Eiffel Tower 2012 and it’s created by Colpo Wexler. It was quite a sight and contrast to the old Paris sim. As for the coat — that is the thing that started this all. New mesh trench coats by Aoharu. I want more mesh clothes that go for the slinky shape instead of adding poofy layers over the system shape. So much love. <3

Fashion for Life: Dress: Dare Designs – Dark December* | Jewelry: Tres Beau – It’s Time Set

Old Eiffel: Hair: Sky Everett – Kiera | Boots: Lassitude & Ennui – Selene Black* | Umbrella: Weather or Not? – Wrought Iron Umbrella | Pose: E.inK – Umbrella/Balloons

New Eiffel: Hair: Dura - *+JENOVA’s+* & **Dura**(Black) | Coat: Aoharu – Leather Trench Coat Red | Tights: Sheer – Zebra Tights | Boots: Lassitude & Ennui – Flutter Raven* | Lipstick: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics – Opal Lipcolor Persian Red | Pose: DARE – Field Flower

Both: Skin: League – Sia Fair Bloom | Eyes: Poetic Colors - classic – frozen silver (m) bright | Lashes: Redgrave -39- Luscious

*complimentary copies

Bang in Blue

…what? I’m talking of Bangladesh DuPree, a chaotic evil incarnate pirate from Girl Genius, one of my favourite comics. Bang is usually wearing a red sweater and white-red sailor outfit, but this version came in blue, so!

The sweater, coat and cap are the Steam Hunt prize by Contraption. I showed them to a friend, who immediately went ‘It’s Bang!’. After I stopped squeeing, I began plotting this photoshoot, because yes, yes it is.

The magnificent ship is the Steam Hunt prize by The Epic Toy Factory, one of the most entertaining places to explore and hunt in ever. I warmly recommend visiting even if you weren’t interested in hunting.

I completed the pirate look with white pants from Somnia and the Wanderlust boots from Lassitude & Ennui. I even found the perfect skull bindi tattoo from the Marketplace! It’s important to look good when you run around doing horribly violent things on a whim, after all.

 

Steam the Hunt: Ship: The Epic Toy Factory - Jug-O-Nautalis AirShip | Coat, cap, sweater: Contraption – Maritime Division Uniform Coat & Sweater

Skin: Cupcakes – Dahlia Mocha Sanguine | Eyes: Roly-Poly – GlassEyes Charcoal | Lashes: Redgrave -39- Luscious | Hair: LOQ Hairs – Mischa Onyx | Skull bindi tattoo: Black Eden – Skull Bindi | Pants: Somnia – Tweed Waders White* | Boots: Lassitude & Ennui – Wanderlust Boots Black* | Earring: +plus – Circles Earring in Dark Gold | Gun: Wretched Dollies – Steampunk Gun | Knife: Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Dismemberment Tool | Poses: TeaSoup – Little Miss Sunshine / Olive Juice – True Blood: Lafayette Renolds (Girl) / Chanimations – (*cane2_kneel

*complimentary copies