Instant Martians

 A while ago I saw a post about some CP Model figures   Alien Avians from here    https://cpmodels.co.uk/shop/et15-avian-squad/

They look like this:

I immediately thought of the Instant Martians from the Marvin the Martian cartoons.

So i went and bought three squads 😁 to battle someone at some time in the future.

My interpretation.

Top down view

Who is that lurking in the background?

All photos taken with my new camera in my newish lightbox using the martian red backdrop.

As you can tell by all the close up shots I am quite pleased with these. 😊

This is probably the best painting I have ever done and all thanks to the contrast paints that I thought I would give a go.  I used the GW ones and purchased the green, purple and grey (for the gun) and undercoated white. The gentleman at the GW shop was very kind and directed me to the display they had with the various colours over white undercoat and helped me choose the right ones using the picture of the martian.

The other colours are just the usual paints.

Anyway, I thought it was very interesting to get such a good result with my meager talents.  They are also quite forgiving, I painted the purple over the green for one squad and it came out a ugly brown. But I just repainted white and then tried again and no issues.

Anyway, very pleased with this result and determined to see if I can get something similar on 10mm figures.  A very easy process and I can now see what the fuss is all about.

I know for talented painters this is very ordinary but for your enthusiastic painter like me it is a great leap forward.

And also yay for me, two posts in one month (just).