The Martians have landed

I was Browsing the Miniatures page last night, when I ran across a post by Matakishi about his Silly Scenery page ( Thanks Dude). I was inspired by one of the projects he had there. A hovercar made from a discarded computer mouse. It got me to thinking and I set about to use an old mouse I had to create a Martian walker from H.G. Wells, "War of the Worlds" Here are some pictures of what came from my attempt.





The fuselage is made from the computer mouse and a plastic tub like item from the packaging on a 1/18th scale diecast car. The legs are made from Bic disposable razor handles and evergreen channel and tubing, with the knee joints scrounged from spare road wheels for a 1/72nd scale Tiger tank. The bladelike feet are plastic knives trimmed to fit inside the razor handles. All the other items are from plastic sheet or tubing. I have primed the whole thing grey, and I am trying to decide what colour to paint it. I am thinking a bronze or copper with green in homage to George Pal. Overall the Whole thing stands about 10" tall or 270mm. The funny thing is that I built this but I don't Play Victorian Science fiction. I guess I will have to buy a bunch of colonials to use in a game with this thing, and the two others I hope to build.

Cheers
George