| Screamin Mars Attacks no where to hide |
| This is one of Two, mars attacks kits I have from Screamin, the kits are no longer being produced, but you can still find them if you look hard enough, just beware as there are a lot of recasts out there. This one is a mix, of Resin and Vynil parts, the Figure is mostly resin, the base is all vynil, now this is where to me this kit lets itself down, the vynil is badly misshapen, and no matter how much, heating, filling and generally manipulating, the wall, featuring the door and standing figure, will not remain in shape, I even had to glue this part of the base, to a plywood back board, the problem is the brickwork, bows inwards, but the door bows out, this is not to bad when viewed from the Front, but glaringly obvious from side on, all these problems, mean I will probably not put the whole kit on display, Rather I will box up the base and just display the Martian figure, which is absolutely brilliant, and worth the price of the kit on its own, the Martian, was Base coated matt black, then I airbrushed the body, with a pearl green, dry brushed, with yellow pearl, the head was dry brushed, with greens purrple, lilac and yellow, the base was airbrushed, with sepia and raw sienna inks, dry rushed, grey, the victims, and the door are all hand painted, with acrylics, I would love to reccomend this kit more highly because the subject matter and the idea is spot on even the figure of the Martian, is well up to scratch, but the base is atotal let down, in my opinion, disapointing. Mark Atherton 27 May 2003 |
| Materials used and time taken to build this kit Anitas Acrylics, Burnt Umber, Coffee, Bright red, peach. pink, lemon, deep teal, cream, purple, lilac,bright yellow, lime green. hunter green. Tamya Acrylics, Flat Flesh, Metallic Blue, Winsor and Newton artists acrylics. Yellow Ochre Citadel Acrylics, Bleached Bone Winsor and Newton, artists inks, Raw Sienna, sepia, Pastels for shading, Humbrol Enamels, silver Humbrol Acrylics matt black, antique bronze. Faskolour, Pearl Green All applied with Aztec A470 airbrush, and Humbrol, hobby brushes. Glue, super glue, Putty Milliputt Time worked on Kit, approx Twelve hours over Seven, day period, |
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| Copyright Mark Atherton 2003 |
| Copyright Mark Atherton 2003 |
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