Paint

I got a free sample for writing a review for this product.

As you might guess, it's paint.

It comes in a great package.

Each color nicely labelled and stuffed into a little pocket.

The package is so good, I kept them in it, rather than use my normal system of paint storage.

These are mostly fantasy, wargame, role playing colors.

They are easy to get out of the package and go back in easily too.  I like the paint and will have some examples of what I painted with them soon.
 

Painting Selenites

In the movie there is a Selenite called the Grand Lunar who is in charge.  He has a bigger head.  So I decided to cut the head off of a praying mantis and another one from a larger cricket and use them as the basis for a Grand Lunar and a Lessor Lunar.

I wanted a sticker glue so I got some of this E6000 premium.

It seemed to work better in a big glop on the soft plastic figures and based.

Here everyone is on their base ready for painting.

I did not prime them because I am using spray lacquer and it seems better without it. 

I paint one side.

Then flip them and do the other side.

In this case standing up.  Note the Grand Lunar with the big antennas and the impressive staff.  And the Lessor Lunar with the thick antennas and almost as nice staff.  Red figure has the praying mantis head and the black has the other bigger cricket head.
 

Hulls and Droopy Barrel

The Roco T54 tank often has problems with the upper and lower hulls staying together.

So I have had to use both medium and very large clamps to hold them together while they let the glue dry.

Here is a medium and small clamp.  Sometimes that is enough.

The main guns on the T54 suffer from droopy barrel.  The turret cheeks are very thin and often get bent out of shape.

So I glue a very thin plastic patch to make the space a little smaller and it seems to work.

By taking up some of that space the gun is usually no longer droopy.
 

Selenites In Progress

So this guy is the prototype.

I used this E6000 glue in a big glop to hold the figure onto the base.

Each base got sanded with P220 sandpaper.

Then a little touch up around the edges with P400 paper which is a finer grit.

Crickets ready to become Selenites.  Their extensive conversion consisted of trimming their behinds so they will stand flat.  It takes about a second.

Sanding the base.

The base is done.  Looks good enough to eat.