Whiffs found on Facebook

[PR19_Kit]

Dunno about 'poor attempt', it's a pretty good Whiff of the pair of them I reckon. 

But does it have jets on those fairings either side of the bomb bay? They look like air intakes at the front end of them, maybe for 'over the target' boost?

[kerick]

Another AI embarrassment. It still can't get the props right. And flame coming from the engine? What's that damn fool thing hanging from its butt? There must be a real way for a human to edit these things. Or the person posting it is clueless or trying to give people a laugh.

[Captain Canada]

But does it have jets on those fairings either side of the bomb bay? They look like air intakes at the front end of them, maybe for 'over the target' boost?

My guess is that it's the AI inerpretation of the open bomb bay doors in the original pic.

[PR19_Kit]

My guess is that it's the AI inerpretation of the open bomb bay doors in the original pic.

Ah yes, could well be right. The AI rather screwed it up though, how unusual. 

[The Rat]

Cool Manchester. What page is that from Rat ? Seems it's AI and he only posted it to a modelling page to protest people posting AI and claiming it as their build ?

Good question, I can't remember the actual facebook page, and the link only goes to that particular post. 

EDIT: Found it! Airfix aircraft kits

[jcf]

And a RADIAL engined Manchester as well! 

A Centaurus engined version of the Type 679/Manchester was an actual proposal.
It was one of the responses to the Vulture problems, two Sabre was another.
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[jcf]

The copper things on the belly are boilers, the randomly added gears are typical Steampunk
crud. The AI has "learned" from all of the Steampunk crap that its "teachers", yes, that's a job,
scraped from the internet and other sources. A lot of Steampunk "art" consists of little more
than randomly applying gears, smokestacks and copper or brass boilers to anything and everything
with zero regard to functionality. The boilers are amongst the dumbest features, because in
order to withstand the operating pressures required to get anything close to efficiency from a
steam engine a copper or brass boiler would have to be much heavier than an iron or steel boiler.
The boiler shell and tube wall thicknesses would have to be much greater if using brass or,
idiotically, copper. Iron and steel are not only stronger, pound per pound, thus you can use
thinner walls, they're also easier to work.

I've tried to read Steampunk but there is so much stupid involved in most of it that I can't
suspend disbelief. There's a handful of writers who use handwavium, bordering on magic, to
get around the obvious technical difficulties but too many who apply actual 19th century
steam technology, or rather their misunderstanding of the technology, and have it power robots
etc., and boy howdy do they love them some copper and brass. One of the dumbest bits I've read
is the "brass" feet of a mechanical man leaving a "trail of sparks" on the glazed tile of a tube station
as it stops a runaway underground train. 
Brass don't spark ye feckin' muppet and something mansized ain't gonna stop a train. That was
in the first five pages of the book, I couldn't read any farther. 

[Captain Canada]

Beauty.

[PR19_Kit]

Yeah, that works pretty well, the 'Northern Zone' camo really suits it. 

[frank2056]

The copper things on the belly are boilers, the randomly added gears are typical Steampunk
crud. The AI has "learned" from all of the Steampunk crap that its "teachers", yes, that's a job,
scraped from the internet and other sources. A lot of Steampunk "art" consists of little more
than randomly applying gears, smokestacks and copper or brass boilers to anything and everything
with zero regard to functionality. The boilers are amongst the dumbest features, because in
order to withstand the operating pressures required to get anything close to efficiency from a
steam engine a copper or brass boiler would have to be much heavier than an iron or steel boiler.
The boiler shell and tube wall thicknesses would have to be much greater if using brass or,
idiotically, copper. Iron and steel are not only stronger, pound per pound, thus you can use
thinner walls, they're also easier to work.

I've tried to read Steampunk but there is so much stupid involved in most of it that I can't
suspend disbelief. There's a handful of writers who use handwavium, bordering on magic, to
get around the obvious technical difficulties but too many who apply actual 19th century
steam technology, or rather their misunderstanding of the technology, and have it power robots
etc., and boy howdy do they love them some copper and brass. One of the dumbest bits I've read
is the "brass" feet of a mechanical man leaving a "trail of sparks" on the glazed tile of a tube station
as it stops a runaway underground train.
Brass don't spark ye feckin' muppet and something mansized ain't gonna stop a train. That was
in the first five pages of the book, I couldn't read any farther.

[scooter]

 

[jcf]

Prezackly.


A classic bit of musical snark.

[Steel Penguin]

i do appreciate the sentiment behind the song. and the song isnt too bad either.
now wheres me pile of gears?

[Rick Lowe]

All that said, the Victorians were well aware of the metallurgical delicacy of Brass vs. Steel, or would have become so after the first few catastrophic failures, so likely they would have used the tried-and-true method of electro-plating...

Not to say there isn't a lot of 'Stupid' in the genre (like a lot of others), but there are work-arounds for some things.

[comrade harps]

I'm calling this a whif.