Pencilled MBTF page including the first rendering of The Red Eyed Chaser public house as seen in the previous blog post in sketch form. This building is FUN to draw!
Slightly less fun to draw is the machinery seen in the bottom layer of panels. The idea here involves a primitive release mechanism for a secured ladder, leading to the elevated back door of the Chaser - only for those in the know of course - friends and family of the establishment.
Whilst my personal understanding of physical force meets mechanical design is somewhere in the region of limited to nill - This contraption has been put together by someone with a mind for DIY in the comic world - slipshod though it may be. Therefore, the release should work, if only theoretically, in a distant dream, in my mind. You'll have to trust me - but if everything were weighted and counterbalanced correctly - this mess of cogs and springs would 100% work - I swear it.
This is perhaps the sort of thing that works more effectively in animation; Wallace and Gromit being the obvious go to point for madcap, intricate, domino effect inventions. But hey - No Pain, No Gain Baby.
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