M is for Monsters vs. Military

Another box-ticker, and another intermediate set of 40-mil odd's, these being Monsters vs. Military from Blip Toys LLC, and while my Halloween posts can veer toward the fantasy or medieval, they can also veer toward the sci-fi, and that's rather the case with these!

How they arrived; they had been undercoated with an aerosol spray-paint which was the devil to get off, I don't know what it was, but suspect something like Crylon or even Rustoleum, it was a three-dip job in the end, over two days, and some finishing with a toothpick to get two sets clean!

We get a right old mix here, which from the left are: an Eagle-man, an Alien knock-off Xenomorph, a Shark-man, something equating to Dr. Frankenstein's [cartoon] Monster, a real alien-alien (sort of eye-head cyclopean) and a bog standard Zombie with the prerequisite own severed-limb being waved about! And it's only the three (Eagle, C19th Monster and Zombie) out of twelve sculpts which got them in/on the list today!

The 'Space-Marines' lean equally heavily on both the Alien and Halo franchises, I think, although the prone MG-gunner could pass for a current GI! As would both the kneeling and - otherwise unarmed - grenade throwing chaps; with a bit of paint, the other three have pretty obvious 'space' weapons.

My favorite is actually the shark-man, who would go really well with the similar 40mm shark-man figure from Papo's homage to the Pirates of the Caribbean. He's even in simple shorts and riggers boots, so would look quite at home on a pirate-ship's deck!

The Frankenstein's Monster pose is very cartoony, and with his arms raised in a threatening 'lurch', has covered the 'Hollywood' bolts in his neck, so they put one in his elbow, so we'd not fail to work out who he's supposed to be!