This is War By NastyLady Watch

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Yeeeah, took a while, but here it is. This time steamponies do a bit more than just showing off. This is serious.

Maybe I'll think of some better description later.

For now, just enjoy.



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EDIT:

Here comes the description.

This is definitely the biggest and the messiest thing I've ever did and successfully finished.

30 ponies, 13 airships, at least 6 different types of weapons, whole damn steampunkfied Canterlot on fire, many various explosions and this ridiculous number of changelings. I didn't even try to count them.



But I do want to share some facts about this drawing some of you may find interesting.

#1 - Bon Bon is the only pony here who hasn't already appeared as a Steampunk Pony in my gallery.

#2 - Each changeling is a bit different (I would have gone mad if I had to draw them all identical). My personal favourite is the one on the left with partially missing jaw, giant hole in his head and broken eye. He's cute.

#3 - The Crystal Empire Airship is constructed a bit differently than ordinary Equestrian Airship. And it's not only the design - the ship is one with with complex machinery that allows it to shoot powerful lightning beams.

#4 - Mane 6's airships also could use similar machinery (although powered by Twilight's magic) but the changelings destroyed it. (there are still hardly visible remains on the ship's bow)

#5 - Lyra's using her mechanical hands to fight, because one of the changelings stole her machine gun. He's visible between her and this poor guy she's stabbing in the eye.

#6 - The Wonderbolts are armed. Each of them has a small gun attached to their front leg. They also have small grenades attached to their belts, and that leads to the fact...

...#7 - Those grenades are based on actually used XIX century ones. That means they would probably explode carried that way. Ooops.

#8 - Why isn't Rarity fighting with the rest of M6? Because she's trying to fix the ship. (notice the blue glow surrounding the rope). And that requires concentration.

#9 - These two ponies helping her are my ponysona and my OC, Vector. Fighting isn't really our thing.

#10 - Vinyl indeed uses steampunkfied version of bass cannon.

#11 - Oooh, this one is my favourite. What happened to the princesses? Why Cadance and Shiny aren't using their love magic? Take a closer look on Chrysalis and you'll know.

#12 - I was lazy and instead of drawing the sky I just opened the window and took a photo of clouds. It worked.



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Oh, and I made a quick update and these 20 missing pixels are on their place. So the resolution is now 1920x1080 and so, the picture can be used as a desktop wallpaper.

(to be honest, I'd have gone crazy with screen so messy and crowded, but... well.)

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Published : Dec 30, 2012