#clinker

[martiverseart]

My boy Clinker and his highly flammable toxine💥

[roomforlight]

Randers, Denmark.

[gradienty]

Shadow Clinker (#876d4d to #3b1909)

[ltwilliammowett]

Clinker and Carvel build hulls

Already around 190 AD a construction began to develop. This was preferred by Nordic shipbuilders. Especially the vikings built their long ships in the "clinker" construction method. Planks, or strakes were laid on top of each other and fixed with iron nails. The overlapping timbers were then strengthend with light cross frames. This means that the planking was built first and the frame was later adapted. This construction was the preferred method in northern europe until the middle ages.

Clinker construction on the Gokstad ship, 9th century

Around the 7th century AD, Mediterranean shipbuilders began to simplify the system of hull construction. They reduced the size and importance of the pegs, which connected one plank to another, and instead placed much greater emphasis on the frame. This created a strong bow in the hull, which was labour-intensive to build. In the year 1000 they had begun to abandon the pegs altogether. This type of construction, known as "carvel", was relatively cheap, but required the frame or ribs of the ship to be at least partially attached before the planking was done.

Carvel construction on the Mary Rose, 1545

The practice of frame construction initially required more planning but allowed greater flexibility in shipbuilding and eventually led to the use of plans, initially in galleys. There is clear evidence that this happened in Venice in the 15th century, although it may have started two centuries earlier. The process spread slowly, but it was the beginning of the shipbuilder's transition from craftsman to naval architect, and the use of plans also opened up the possibility of much larger ships.

[inkstainedpalettes]

Hi! Can I request Hobbihajótörött by Carson Coma? Thank you!

Sure thing!

Ohh funky! I really like the group vocals bits, they're fun

[zootycutieart]

Man, it's been a while since I've touched Transformers Animated drawings, this OC especially! Clinker is my idea for a Dinobot I made ages ago, she transforms into an Ankylosaurus. Her old design was part of my "original era" of designing TFA OCs, so I felt she could use a good redesign!

[crowagentwatch]

:0 Would you mind drawing one of your AHIT OCs if you have any?

OH HELL YES i have two!

this is Clinker! he’s a fire spirit who refuses to die out of spite! which means he doesnt burn and looks more like coal or ash instead

and this is Xue! she’s a snow leopard and works as the Empress’ girlfriend bodyguard!

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, what are the names of the ancient Seekers who appeared in Revenge of the Fallen?

Dear Seeker Sleuth,

I suppose you already know the stories of Jetfire and Ransack. But there were many other Seekers who travelled to Earth—here are tales of some of their exploits.

Fanbelt was one of the first Seekers to arrive on Earth, convinced that it would give him a head start on the search for the Tomb of the Primes. A naturally skilled ‘bot, he grew arrogant and conceited as the search for the Matrix turned into a twisted competition between the Seekers, but this would prove his undoing—while in his truck alternate mode, his fellow Seeker Fortress ran him off the road and killed him in 1929.

The Seeker that took the form of a Hudson steam locomotive went by the name Clinker. Surprisingly gentle in spite of his huge size and Decepticon allegiance, he took a liking to humanity and became one of the first Seekers to abandon his mission. He eventually settled into a humble new life working on the railroad until he ran out of energon; his comatose body was subsequently scrapped by 1954.

Takeoff transformed into a B-24 Liberator. Dour, gloomy, and mean-spirited, Takeoff grew convinced that the Tomb of the Primes had never existed; rather than partake in the games that his fellow Seekers played, he turned his attention to simply hunting down and killing as many Cybertronians as he could find to pass the time. Perhaps it is fortunate for his comrades that he was stationed at Pearl Harbor in 1941, where he was destroyed by human aircraft.

The mischievous Cyclone changed her alternate mode many times during her long stay on Earth—from early biplanes to propeller-driven fighter jets all the way up to her final alternate mode, an F-104 Starfighter. Her search took her to England, during the height of the Cold War; while there, however, she quite inadvertently stumbled across Castle Folgan, a secret refuge for Cybertronians on Earth maintained by the Order of Witwiccans and was fatally shot out of the sky by the Autobot Bulldog.