Slowly, but surely, he drew his brush against us - Martian Front Project

[Mr Saturday]

I have a lot of brit stuff as well, the monowheels are my favourite. They're a lot bigger than I was expecting too, but that goes for nearly all the MF range.

[Anna Elizabeth]

I was just looking at the website, I think I like the Imperial Battle Tanks best so far.

[XCIV]

That red dirt? Good old fashioned 'Mericun red dirt. There are parts of the States where it's ubiquitous.

Yes, I used 'Mericun and ubiquitous in the same breath. I'm complicated.

[Mr Saturday]

Here we have a Martian Assault Tripod from All Quiet on the Martian Front. I love War of the Worlds, so when this appeared I was all over it. It's a very tall model, it's about 6" or so, on an 80mm base.



I used a Gladius Game Arts base for this guy, and added a bicycle from a Sgts' Mess bits pack. The burned skeleton is from another All Quiet model. After a wash of thinned Nuln Oil, I used mostly recess washes and glazes to work up the model. Painting larger models requires less contrast than smaller models, so again, I used acrylic medium to thin the glazes. Then basing. I had to do a little research for the burnt patch of ground under the skeleton. As the model is mostly neutral colours, I could get away with more vibrant base colours, hence the dirt road has a richer tone than I would normally use.

[Shaved Dwarf]

Nice work!
I especially like the bases.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Amazing work on the metal parts, looks very good 

[OSHIROmodels]

Very good 

Love the colours on it 

cheers

James

[von Lucky]

Also agree, great contrast between model and base and tones in each part.

[Mr Saturday]

Thanks all. It was satisfying to work on, I've been meaning to paint up one of these tripods for a while.