Doctor Vellocet, aka SKoT McDonald, reowned electrostolic-gizmologist and devil-may-care adventuring-type-person.

Doctor Vellocet's Steam-powered Ostrich. “Your Personal Antarctic Avian” ™. “Steam Ostrich” for short. Or “The Turkey” (read: White Elephant) when Dr V is wondering where all his time and money is going.

Because if you tried to explore the Antarctic wastes with normal Ostrich, it wouldn't survive, silly.

Probably.

• 2 walker-legs
• neck-mounted tea-pot head for dispensing reviving Tea even in the more inhospitable environments
• Side mounted auto-loading chain-fed machine-nerf-run for dispensing bursts of civilizing nerf upon any savages/endangered species/irreplaceable archaeological treasures.
• Plush velvet seat
• Missile switch!
• 4 port exhaust stack (wonky). Construction: cardboard toilet tubes, angle-cut at ends and hot-glued together for welding effect. One has a rain-protection witches' hat.

• Welding effect - thanks to Jenna! - Using “bunched up” lines of hot glue applied to sheets of MDF for the 3D texture, then coating in a solid under layer of black paint, followed by rapid dry brushing of silver and just a hint of gold for a slightly bronzy/brassy look.
• iron exhaust pipes - toilet rolls. “Pipe kinks” achieved by cutting ends cut on slight diagonals, and hot gluing for bonus welding.
• Legs moved by virtue of Ostrich ankles tied to actors.

• GSPA Steampunk Ball, July 30th 2011 @ Scitech, Perth
• GSPA Steampunk Ball, April 2012 @ Cabaret Cave, Yanchep
• DeVille's pad, 29th Dec 2012
• Mad Hatter's tea party, March 2012 @ Northbridge Piazza
• Artifactory Residency @ Northbridge Piazza, April 2012
• WORLD LAND SPEED RECORD (for steam ostriches) @ Lake Ballard, Oct 2011

• Steam Ostrich now has her own Facebook Page, chronicling her adventures: http://www.facebook.com/SteamOstrich
• Two more Steam Ostriches are under construction - the fleet grows! (Nov 2012)