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Concept Sketches

Early Concept Sketches Concept Sketches from back in my late High School, Early College Days, featuring a variety os specilized Tripods, and orbiting comand ship, and small landing cylinders, as well as some detail of a overly complicated "hand" for the fighting machines

Early Fighing Machine Concept Sketches Half colored Fighing Machine, shorter, with reduced numbers of tentacles, and a very Anime look, with the Heatray, in a cyclopian head. the little cannons on the sides are steam jets, to neutrilize the black smoke.

Concept SketchesCross Section of the contents of a Cylinder, Martian, Early Handling Machine Sketch, and a doodle of a Fighting Machine design I had in High School

Concepts Sketches Two
Digging Machine, Shield Mode Fighting Machine, Refining Machine, and Handling Machine Concepts

Concepts Sketches Three -Handling Machine, and control couch and Martian, showing a bit of anatomy the lungs and ears, and with a feeding tube.

Concepts Sketches Four -Tripods Walking, Standing up, Seen from below and in front, the flying machine spreading black smoke, and more.

Machine Concepts Sketches -Fighting and Handling Machines, with some attention to the legs and joints.

Martian Landing Concepts -Scale sketches of the Cylinder, and the Fighting Machine, cross section and cutaways of the cylinder, and misc Martians and the flying machine.

First Tripod Concept -My first revisitation of the Fighting Machine, attempting to be more mechanical than my original design, seen in the Etching below, some attention paid to the retraced form

Tripod Two -The next evolution, with a more curved line to the cowl.

Tripod Three -Near Final design, with regards to the body, the legs are in an early form, having added a single knee, foot with a blunter design than the final claw.

Tripod Four -Evolution of the Leg Designs, now with two knees, and extensible leg lengths, rather exagerated here

Tripod Five -More on the hood, while developing the final design, in semi cross section, with some detail of the body/leg join

Leg Study -A blueline sketch of a full Fighting Machine leg

Second Leg Study -Study of a Martian "Knee" showing the overlapping friction bearings

Handling Machine -Freehand Sketch of the latest version of the Handling Machine

Handling Machine Half Inked Vesion of the near final Handling Machine, I stopped when I messed up the inking, and grew dissatisfied with the look of the tentacles.

Digging Machine- The martian's excavating machine

Flying Machine Concepts One -Flying Machine Concepts, focusing on the fanlike wing design, inspired by the desc of the winged Martians in "The Crystal Egg"

Flying Machine Concepts Two -Diffrent design, with a more underslung fuselage

Flying Machine Concepts There -Details of body and engine in the evolution of the machine

Flying Machine Concepts Four -Same as above, with some attention to the front louver design

The Great Gun -The invasion cannon, in the crater of Pavonis Mons, showing a bit of the underground construction

Fighing Machine Emerges -The first Fighting Machine engages the Infantry at Horsell Common,before standing erect.

Underfoot, In the Storm -A Fighting machine coming down the road in the storm, from the Narrator's POV

Dead LondonThe narrator wanders through the empty streets of london

The Thunder Child The Ironclad rams the first martian

The Pit The narrator looks down over the Martian Pit on Primrose Hill

WOTW:2005 In a modern day setting Martian Shock Assult Machines, scrabble from their landing craters

In the Storm-"And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career"

Days of Imprisonment-"Then something...something struggling violently...was lifted high against the sky, a black, vague enigma against the starlight; and as this black object came down again, I saw by the green brightness that it was a man."

"What I saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Sheperton" - An etching I did back in college, the spark my current design sprang from

The Woking Martian
A Close up of the Bacteria at the Woking Martian
A Close up of the Fighting Machine

"We got to Hampton Court without misadventure, our minds full of strange and unfamiliar appearances, and at Hampton Court our eyes were relieved to find a patch of green that had escaped the suffocating drift. We went through Bushey Park, with its deer going to and fro under the chestnuts, and some men and women hurrying in the distance towards Hampton, and so we came to Twickenham. These were the first people we saw." - Under Foot Warwick Goble Style Martian Fighting Machine Scratchbuild

Other

Martian Tripod Playhouse Concept(pdf)

Return to ILLUSTRATION

War of the Worlds Resources

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War of the Worlds Amazon.com Bookstore

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Video Games

Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds
Visual Pinball table based on Jeff Waynes' War of the Worlds, by Anthias
My "The War of the Worlds" Visual Pinball table
The War of the Worlds on Coin-Op Museum
War of the Worlds Half life Mod

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Models

War Machine Deluxe Model Hobby Kit
War Of The Worlds HG Wells Machine Model Hobby Kit
War Of The Worlds War Machine HG Wells Model Hobby Kit
Martian Tripod from the War of the Worlds.
Martian Tri-pod Walker:
Crashed 'War of the Worlds' Martian Cylinder and 'War of the Worlds' Martian War Machine
Paroom Station Cephalids
1890's tentacled Martian invader, on Earth
1890's tentacled Martian invader, feeding
Alien tripod (large)
Alien tripod (small)
Martian Empires
War Of The Worlds HG Wells Martian Model Kit
War Of The Worlds Martian Model Kit
Martian Tripod Paper Model

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Websites

2005 - Speilberg/Cruise Movie
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
Pendragon Pictures "H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds"
RetroVision Books Tie In Books to Pendragon Pictures "H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds"
The Martian Panic Sixty Years Later,What Have We Learned?
Eve of the War (.com)
Eve of the War (.co.uk)
Dr Zeus's War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds Online
Companion to the Broadview Edition of War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds Movies.info
Supreme Martian Overlord's Doom Filled Page of Doom
The Wellsian Design Archive
3D Models at TurboSquid: 1890's Martian Machine, 1950's Martian Machine, Martian Cylinder, Fighting Machine, Fighting Machine, Red Weed, Jeff Wayne Style Handling Machine
3D Models at DAZ 3D:Martian Fighting Machine