A double joke as they are both two sides in a
fight (duelling), and two colour-ways (duel), and seem to be running alongside
the more standard boxed version such as that seen in the previous post . . . we
arrive at the fourth set (of six?) from SCS
Direct, and while not really that Halloweeny, being technically Sci-fi, you
will see there is a nightmare element to some of the Aliens!
I didn't do a table for these, and
re-distributed them to the other two guys before I took note, but it was short
(98 again I think) and there were anomalies with the contents against a
straight split, or 'fair' distribution.
However, because these are slightly different
from the three previously-seen sets, in having one side in light-grey (the humans)
and one in dark (aliens), there were at least three of each and I think
everyone got a full set with a couple of handfuls in the 'spares' box.
Top-left is an Imp or Gremlin-like alien; it
certainly doesn't look terribly friendly! To its right is the closest to a
movie-alien, in being humanoid and carrying sophisticated technology/weaponry
in an 'atmosphere' suit!
Bottom-left gives us a Cthulhu-Turtle
thing! While the figure bottom right is a sort of elemental; I can see people
painting-it-up as fire, water, lava or even a plant-like finish would work?
Top-left is the Dragon we saw in the
previous post, it's actually quite sweet, more of a baby dragon than anything
else, sitting in a nest of planks! Bellow the Dragon we find the Arse-faced,
Flame-haired, Seal-pig . . . very rare I can tell you - due to their tendency
to combust when they fart.
Next to that Arse-pig as they are known
locally (and from the same planetary system) is the Arse-faced, Shaggy
Octo-Gute, very tasty! And in the top-right-hand corner is the Squid-headed
Scooby-swine, a useful tracking animal. You know when you are near the tracked
pray as the Scooby-swine either bolts and runs away or jumps into your arms and
slobbers all over you with its many slimy tentacles, so PPE required!
With the humans we get a mixed bunch of
figures which are quite useful in various settings/scenarios, on the left a
gang of vigilante survivors who have armed themselves for a fight, the girl on
the right is sculpted as a child, but bigger than all the rest, weather she is
supposed to be a giantess or something I don't know, but she's in 'Human'
coloured plastic!
The other pair are more tremulous citizens,
clearly not dealing with an alien invasion in quite such a focused and
determined manner as the first three!
The final trio include a pair of 1950's
pulp spacefarers, who look more like kids in Halloween costumes, or scientists
on Horsell Common - where my Brother and I played a lot as kids - swampy mass
of mosquito-breeding, elephant grass puddles, orange-algae poisoned drainage
ditches and struggling juvenile fir stands! And there's a comedy sketch in
there - "Try it now, it should work?"!
To whom is added (several years before BMC) a Rosie the Riveter! She's
posed here with the Auto-Union DKW
'Munga' from Injectaplastic,
showing the 1:48th/40mm range of this set, although the aliens and Dragon can
be any scale you choose! Rosie, and the uniforms, are clearly placing this lot
in that 1940/50's realm of black & white matinee movies about bug-eyed
lumps of glowing jelly from that dying, red, militaristic, swamp-planet beyond
the stars!
A comparison between the two Dragons we've
seen this year, remember last year's sets contained a man-bat and a Dragon
which was more like a chess-piece, while this year we get one seemingly from D&D and a heraldic Dragon, so SCS've ticked all the boxes on
leather-winged beasts!
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