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Every Italian boy eager for adventure and exotic locations knows characters like Sandokan, Tremal-Naik, Darma or Yanez. While being full of geographical mistakes, unlikely plots and outmoded language and tropes, they also offered stories of foreign, often non-white heroes involved in swashbuckling action and piracy.I just found a collection of their classical covers. The site is in Italian but it's pretty self-explanatory.Page one:…See More

I found this site dealing with Luftwaffe projects, in a what-if perspective. Most of these never left the drawing boards or became nothing more than wind tunnel models.I thought some people here may be interested.See More

I uploaded the photos I took this summer at the Rovereto War Museum. It's a prety big collection and I recommend anybody visiting northern Italy to visit it, given the chance. Unfortunately, I had no spare batteries for the camera and not every photo was good since the items were behind glass and the illumination faint. Sorry for forgetting the camera home when I went to the Caproni museum...The album See More

A Dieselpunk wikia has been started (not by me). It is not much populated yet as it needs contributions. If you are interested, visit it at this URLSee More

http://strangevehicles.greyfalcon.us/ A pretty much interesting site about unusual, limited series, hypotetical and fantasy vehicles of the Wehrmacht. It's not very reliable as an hystorical source, but it's worth a look.See More

I found this site which seems to have quite a collection of reference material, expecially in US vintage ADs and a good number of nostalgic links. As I didn't see it mentioned, I tought somebody may be interested.See More

I read Burning Chrome a few yoears ago and I remember one of the first examples of a description of what i now would call a Dieselpunk world. Looking at wikipedia, I found the name of the story: the Gernsback continuum. Perhaps it is not by chance that I found such an early example of Dieselpunk in a short story in a book of Cyberpunk novels.See More

... but it uses a lot of dieselpunk imagery to suggest that the emotion-free state of the future is in fact a fascist state. Oddly enough, it even uses propaganda airships coreographically traveling in the city's skies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlqpfV9marA The story is simply a revision of Fahrenheit 451, with some pistol kung-fu and a lot of inconsistencies thrown in. Nevertheless, the imagery, while not perfect and sometimes…See More

I was reviewing the status quo of Dieselpunk, in order to explain it to the Italian Steampunk community. I noticed that there is a  form of Dieselpunk that doesn't completely fit into the Ottensian/Piecraftian distinction, and I propose it to be christened Dieselpulp. By the name itself you probably know what I'm talking about: daring heroes, exotic locations, occult, and the inevitable nazis getting their arses kicked.…See More

I found a link some of you may find interesting. Unfortunately, it is in Italian. http://annitrenta.blogspot.com/2009/04/lopera-piu-grande-di-kurt-caesar.html The first table is about the "aerophages", a future monster threatening the rise of flight and sucking up all breathable air, threatening a suffocation apocalypse The second is about a weapon of the future: the amphibious tank, able to land…See More

Necrovision is a FPS I played a while ago with a friend of mine, on his PC.It is set in an alternate history where Imperial Germany's research discovered the uncharted regions of hell and turned them in a tool of war. While it starts as a "realistic" action FPS, zombies start to appear, followed by Daemonic engines, armoured walkers and then the demons themselves. By example, before dicovering the hell reality, you use a stolen armoured walker to fight against a huge enemy scorpion-tank. While…See More

I've always been fond of propaganda posters and thought someone else may find fun in editing them to dieselpunk standards. So this is it. --Heavier than air--This poster is inspired to the evolution of flight that happened between the '10s an the '30s, which is to say the decline of "lighter than air" flight and "heavier…See More

I was wondering if any other Dieselpunk here makes use of a "safari jacket". I got quite a number of them as they are easy to find (they have some supporters in the mainstream fashion), have an adventurous look and are useful when the temperature starts to rise but you don't want to have an "average Joe" look. Khaki is the ideal colour (mine is sand), but they are also common in green. None of mine have the canonical external belt (for the mere reason that I didn't find any decent-looking one…See More

I just discovered I am not the only one with a fascination for fedoras and futurism, therefore I tought it would have been a god idea to let the world know about it. Personally, I think faith in the future and in possibilities is one of the best values that were lost after WWII (at least in Europe); obviously, while future in the roaming twenties was about fast engines and planes, current future is abiut computers and new possibilities that have yet to show their driving force.I also admire…See More