{"id":8446,"date":"2019-02-10T17:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=8446"},"modified":"2019-02-10T17:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T17:22:44","slug":"two-martian-tripods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=8446","title":{"rendered":"Two Martian Tripods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Untitled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8443\" src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Untitled-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Untitled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Untitled-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Untitled-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the continuing effort to reduce the unpainted lead collection, I knocked out these two tripods this weekend. \u00a0I went with battleship gray for the paint scheme thinking that they might be Earth imitations of Martian tripods (I have the ones from <a href=\"http:\/\/tin-soldier.com\/martiantripod.html\">here<\/a>\u00a0to be <em>real<\/em> Martians). \u00a0They looked too clean, so I gave them a heavy brown wash.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8445\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_5653.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8445\" src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_5653-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_5653.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_5653-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I like the quirkiness of these. They look like water towers on legs to me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_5652.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8444\" src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_5652-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_5652.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_5652-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_5652-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I bought these at Barrage 2017. \u00a0I may buy a third one at Barrage 2019 if they are available. \u00a0They were pretty easy to assemble, and they painted quickly.<\/p>\n<div class='shareinpost'><ul class=\"socialwrap row\"><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  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