Blog Lord Agragax's Making and Painting Blog - Steampunk Buildings, and... Ulla!

You've been busy. Good work my friend. What kind of base are you going to give them?

 

Those are looking really good!

That's a cool concept. It looks pretty badass.

 

Thank you both

The basing will follow my normal Graveyard Earth/Steel Legion Drab plus grass, to reflect the English countryside the Martians are invading, but for these I also plan to add some bright red reindeer moss to serve as the Red Weed, the vegetation that gives Mars its red colouration in the lore of the War of the Worlds, so that it is creeping along behind the tripods, terraforming (or should that be mars-iforming?) Earth itself and consuming its vegetation, just as the Martians hunt down and consume its human inhabitants.

You should look up and listen to the original album with that cover art... it, along with the original Victorian novel that inspired it, remain cornerstones of the modern science-fiction genre. The vast majority of alien invasion stories can trace their ancestry in some way or form back to The War of the Worlds, which is still the original and best.