The Loch Ness Monster is fake. I got that straight from Big Foot and he's never steered me wrong. Now Martians are real!
You would be surprised at what you can find out there. The space aliens may have better luck trying to communicate with Nessie than with the cows here.
They are a Pegasus Hobbies product I purchased from Hobbylinc #PGH9002. They are 1/144 scale so my Martians are a bit on the large size. They come in that polished copper finish which was actually prototypical to the models used on George Pal's 1953 production of "War of the Worlds". One set of the models, apx six foot across were plated in copper because as they hung from wires above the modeled scenery, three electric arcs flared between them and plates on the ground. You can see this effect early on in the movie when the war-machines first rise out of the pit and during the beginning of the battle. Unfortunately they set fire to the scenery and they almost lost the studio (Oops!) so they dropped the effect and filmed the remaining film using smaller models. Only one of the big models survived and it eventually wound-up in Forrest J. Ackerman's collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy paraphernalia. Upon Akerman's death in 2008 a great mystery arose as the warehouse where Ackerman had stored his collection of more than 250,000 items was found to be empty. Now would you like to know about the blue lines in hockey?
