Monday, 26 May 2025

Zoidberg meets the Mekon

After the big project of the space marine multi-tank, I made a few more space weirdos. I'd bought a frame of Perry Miniatures Afghan tribesmen, from 1880 or so, and I thought it would be interesting to turn them into futuristic types.

The tribesmen are all wearing long robes, and either have boots or sandals. These would work for civilians and mystic monk-types, who probably wander about in flip flops, but less well for hardened soldiers. I then realised that by combining some of the alien heads, I could make some familiar characters. 

So, here are Dr Zoidberg from Futurama and the Mekon from Dan Dare. 






Both models have a head and arms from Stargrave miniatures, and an Afghan body. Zoidberg's claws were sculpted around some cut-off tyranid spikes, and the Mekon's saucer was a hubcap left from a toy car.

Then we have two ladies. The woman on the right has arms from the Frostgrave female barbarians sprue. I imagined that the two blades are something like light sabers, and painted them as such. She was given a white and orange paint scheme vaguely remeniscent of a Buddhist monk, to suggest mystic powers. The other woman has arms from a Frostgrave female wizard. She might be a psychic casting a spell, or maybe just someone normal running away.






Then I just made a couple of randoms. This man has an old Frostgrave soldier body (they do look quite basic compared to later North Star plastics) with a Ghost Archipelago head (I think) and a bionic arm made out of leftover Necron parts. His robot friend is just a Mantic robot that I've had lying about for ages. It's made from that nasty resin-plastic stuff that Mantic used to use (and might still do), which isn't very nice to work with.







These were fun to do, but as usual the pictures don't do them any sort of justice. Oh well. I'm used to that by now. More big things next time (maybe)!

EDIT: I've noticed that the pictures look better if you click on them to make them bigger.

4 comments:

  1. Haha. I didn't see that coming! My favourite is of course Dr Zoidberg (now you need the rest of the crew!!), I can see some interesting conversions here, lovely job!

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    1. Cheers, I really enjoy making these randos. I think the rest of the crew would be quite difficult! Definitely a project to add to the list of things I must make sometime, though...

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  2. Awesome collection of denizens of the far future!

    I remember making a warband of Zoidberg aliens back in the day in 15mm and called them the Mollusc Freedom Organisation or MoFO. They even had a Hotwheels Reliant Robin as a technical to zoom around in. I may have to re-explore such silliness in the future with all the inspiration you've been giving with these scratch builds and conversions!

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    1. I vaguely remember those. You've given this a lot more thought than I have! I like the idea of them having a Reliant Robin - it seems apt for Dr Zoidberg somehow. I lost count of the number of times I went "Wobwobwob!" while making this model!

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