{"id":80,"date":"2008-06-03T12:56:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2008\/06\/03\/steampunk-star-wars-and-much-more\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T12:56:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:56:05","slug":"steampunk-star-wars-and-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/03\/steampunk-star-wars-and-much-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Steampunk Star Wars and much more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">I am still in awe of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/C-Steampunk-SW.htm\" title=\"Steampunk Star Wars action figures\" class=\"broken_link\">Steampunk Star Wars action figures<\/a> created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/index.htm\" title=\"Sillof&#039;s Workshop\" class=\"broken_link\">Sillof&#8217;s Workshop<\/a>.\u00a0 He\u00a0posted them a while ago, but I was looking at them again recently.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t seen them, you must check them out.\u00a0 The amount of creativity and craftsmanship that went into these is amazing.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to steal his site&#8217;s thunder, so I&#8217;m only posting one of the pics below.\u00a0 This is the Steampunk C-3PO.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that awesome?!?!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/C-Steampunk-SW.htm\" title=\"Steampunk Star Wars\" class=\"broken_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" width=\"293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/images\/Customs\/Steampunk%20SW\/sp_3po.jpg\" alt=\"Steampunk C3PO\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Additionally, he has done <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/C-Vict-Avengers.htm\" title=\"Victorian Avengers\" class=\"broken_link\">Victorian Avengers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/C-Gaslight.htm\" title=\"Gaslight Justice League\" class=\"broken_link\">Gaslight Justice League<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/C-SW_Rev.htm\" title=\"Star Wars Revisioned\" class=\"broken_link\">Star Wars Re-Visioned<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/C-Sw-1942.htm\" title=\"Star Wars 1942\" class=\"broken_link\">Star Wars: 1942<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/C-Dune_atr.htm\" title=\"Dune \" class=\"broken_link\">Dune: House Atreides<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/C-DD.htm\" title=\"Daredevil\" class=\"broken_link\">Daredevil<\/a>, and many more.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve got to check out his work.\u00a0 Wow&#8230; just wow.\u00a0 A link to his site is below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/index.htm\" title=\"Sillof&#039;s Workshop\" class=\"broken_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" width=\"504\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sillof.com\/images\/button4.JPG\" alt=\"Sillof's Workshop\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the 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