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One hour speedy of a tripod design for my War of the Worlds project.
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Cool!! 
I love the tripod fighting machines from The War of The Worlds. I tend to imagine them as being coppery-brass colored, and moving with an almost organic animal-like manner, while using its lithe mechanical tentacles to fire heat-ray projectors and handle the rocket tubes the fire the black smoke shells (not to mention catch hapless humans). HG Wells originally imagined the fighting-machines moving with a fluid, animal like action rather than the clunkiness of a steam boiler on stilts. The Martians used stacks of electrically charged disks to simulate the contractions of muscles, if I recall the books correctly- which is remarkably close to modern robotics and artificial muscles. As was his description of a heat-ray. Modern infrared lasers behave pretty much identically. Chemical weapons we have had since WW1. Maybe WE are the Martians... 
I love the tripod fighting machines from The War of The Worlds. I tend to imagine them as being coppery-brass colored, and moving with an almost organic animal-like manner, while using its lithe mechanical tentacles to fire heat-ray projectors and handle the rocket tubes the fire the black smoke shells (not to mention catch hapless humans). HG Wells originally imagined the fighting-machines moving with a fluid, animal like action rather than the clunkiness of a steam boiler on stilts. The Martians used stacks of electrically charged disks to simulate the contractions of muscles, if I recall the books correctly- which is remarkably close to modern robotics and artificial muscles. As was his description of a heat-ray. Modern infrared lasers behave pretty much identically. Chemical weapons we have had since WW1. Maybe WE are the Martians...