Let the games begin...
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Being a huge fan of the Mars Attacks trading cards, I was pretty stoked when I saw moebius was releasing this kit. I'll be throwing this one in the diorama category. The kit is really nice with a lot of great detail. The sculpt of the Martian head is really the selling point for me, they really captured the look quite perfectly. I do want to throw some lights in this thing, definitely the lamp post and maybe the ray gun will get lit up.
I spent the evening trimming and cleaning up all the parts and basically going over everything to get a game plan as far as lighting. Challenges will definitely be seam work especially on the arms and legs with them having that rippled space suit effect. Here's a look at all the parts.
Better look at the awesome box art
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The kit comes with a metal tube for the lamp post.
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Arms and legs.
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Tanks, ray gun, hoses..
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Small parts, hands, ray gun muzzle..
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Victim's head
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Martian head. Amazing detail, gnarly seams...
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Torso
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The base has some really nice texture on it I'll probably bulk it up a little bit and extend the base to allow room for a power source and a switch. I'm sure you could make it work with just the provided base, but that's just a little too crowded for me.
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Really the only thing that bugs me about this kit is the dome. Its in two halves so a seam is pretty much unavoidable. There is a gentlemen over on Hobbytalk that is currently working on some vac formed domes for this kit. Hopefully i'll be able to snag one of those before the contest is over.
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That's all for now. Thanks for checking it out and good luck to everyone.