Automaton Atkins

[ffutures]

This is Automaton Atkins, the automaton soldier described in previous entries. The left hand is a grenade launcher, other is a human-style hand. Not sure about the look of the head, I'm thinking of changing it to look like a painting rather than a photograph. Comments gratefully received.

Comments

[sirernest.livejournal.com]

what time period are we talking here? I'd say photograph or steel engraving.

random idea for the next one: the prussian rail gun ... autonomously that train prowl the rail lines around berlin, carrying an enormous cannon and only communicating and getting orders from the prussian generals by wireless telegraph.

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

When you say "automaton", is he entirely mechanical or a clockwork cyborg? I'm asking because -- to me -- the picture still looks very much like a man. In particular, his putting all his weight on his right leg and bringing the left slightly forward is a posture that humans use to give their leg muscles a chance to relax. Not what I'd picture an entirely mechanical construct being built to do.

I had assumed he was a man with a set of mechanical hands and so on, until you said in your last comment that he's eight feet tall.