Saying that, I have a few drawings and paintings to do.
I should get on with one. Either: a) a bird for a friend who is moving and took me out on a lot of birding trips; or b) my friend's ship before he leaves for a shore posting.
The Martians are described as octopus-like creatures; the "body" consists of only a head about four feet across having two eyes, a V-shaped, lipless, beak-like mouth, and two branches of 'almost-whip like' eight tentacles each around the mouth. Internally, the Martians consist of a brain, lungs, heart, and blood vessels; they have no organs for digestion, and therefore sustain themselves by mechanically transfusing blood from other animals into their arteries by a little pipette. The ear, a single membrane located in the back of the head, is believed to be useless in Earth's atmosphere
I wondered about doing a scene of Horsell Common with the capsule, possibly even as far as half the crowd being torched. Maybe a project for another evening.
(barryheadwoundMul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Wed 23 Feb 2011, 11:07,
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Pendragon pictures attempted it..
But the end result was complete pants :(
Cannon were pretty effective against the fighting machines in the book.
Unfortunately for humanity gas masks had not yet been invented.... So the black smoke did for them all.
Wells didn't know much about military tactics unfortunately (he was a pacifist after all). The best strategy would be large mines laid in the path of the fighting machines - kaboom!
(RedHouseover yonder,
Wed 23 Feb 2011, 12:35,
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I wish I/you had tagged that
I think that one was where you added the back of his collar in after I wiped his head. I'd have been interested to see how often it's been used for headswaps...
edit: yeah, there we are, looks way better with the collar in. just wish one of us had added a little "boris" on his tie or something. that way we could both claim credit, too... :)