discussion War of the worlds

[Alan 45]

I started a new project over the weekend, a war of the worlds dio this is the Martian war machine , scratch built , I took inspiration from the description in the book and the paint scheme from the musical version of the story

Now I'm working on whether to do the attack on the thunderchild or a land based dio , I have a 1/600 HMS warspite kit and a ruined house and church in 1/76

Decisions decisions View attachment 286793View attachment 286794View attachment 286795

 

[john i am]

Cracking film and soundtrack Alan.I still have the old LP with Richard Burtons narrative skills. I'll get another record player one day. Your machine looks great Alan and I look forward to you dio.

 

[col68]

Attack on thunder child gets my vote Alan

 

[Alan 45]

Cracking film and soundtrack Alan.I still have the old LP with Richard Burtons narrative skills. I'll get another record player one day. Your machine looks great Alan and I look forward to you dio.

It's a great album , I have both the new and old , the songs were better on the old one but the narration is better on new one I think, that 78 release is worth a bit now

Attack on thunder child gets my vote Alan

Everybody I've mentioned this to says that so I guess I'll have to do two

 

[Alan 45]

Update on the war of the world dio

I've changed the gun on the war machine with a silicon stud you would put on a coaster so it didn't scratch your table and a bit from the spares box that resembles the heat ray funnel described in the book

I've changed the look of the upper deck of warspite to resemble the HMS thunderchild from the cover of the album

I'm now working on the detail of the ship like funnels, boats and gunsView attachment 286902View attachment 286903

 

[Alan 45]

Little update

I've made a heat ray , just a little water effects pored out in a line and textured with a cocktail stick the painted yellow and dry brushed with fire red View attachment 287075

 

[Snowman]

Cool!

Loved the sound track, got it on CD!

 

[Thorbrand]

That looks great, i really like scratch builds. Will get round to doing a scratch build myself at some point. Can I ask, what materials did you use for this build? was it mainly plasticard?

 

[Alan 45]

That looks great, i really like scratch builds. Will get round to doing a scratch build myself at some point. Can I ask, what materials did you use for this build? was it mainly plasticard?

No plasicard Alex , the legs are lengths of sprue , the mid section is bits from my spares box and the disc at the top is two lids from old travel mugs placed on top of each other with more bits from the spares box for detail , a simple thing that anyone can do

 

[Alan 45]

Cool!

Loved the sound track, got it on CD!

Great album I had the vinyl when it come out and I'm after it again vinyl

I've got the live show on blue ray as well and that's sounds great on surround sound

 

[eddiesolo]

Top work Al, really good modelling.

 

[Alan 45]

Top work Al, really good modelling.

Cheers mate , it's amazing what you can make out of rubbish

 

[papa 695]

Very nice work Alan I really like the heat/ death Ray