15 mm scale
"Sorry to interrupt your recreation, fellows, but it is time for Sgt. Pinback to feed the alien."
John Carpenter's 1974 film, "Dark Star", is a weird, fun, low-budget story about a cranky crew of oddballs dealing with life in space and trying to save themselves from an intelligent bomb that has decided it wants to explode. A major subplot features the shenanigans of a maliciously mischievous beachball-shaped alien (obviously made from... a beachball, and a pair of Halloween fright hands) which wreaks havoc on the ship while moving around via the ventilation ducts.
Dark Star was co-written by (and co-starred) Dan O'Bannon, who went on to write a rather more well-known 1979 film about a cranky crew of oddballs whose spaceship was destined to self-destruct, confronting a malicious alien traveling through the ventilation ducts:
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Classic!
ReplyDeleteThis is hilarious! I never heard of the movie but it seems well worth checking it out :D.
ReplyDeleteOh it definitely is, if you're in the right mood.
DeleteCool! Well done. I have not seen the film in years but it comes flooding back. Did you make the miniature? I have not seen it before.
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Thanks! Sculpted by me, yes :)
DeleteI love it, Mr. M. Very nice sculpt and painting; kinda makes a body smile and chuckle just a little bit.
ReplyDeleteY'know, when I made my ridiculous Rogue Trader "Bouncers" last year somebody mentioned that they were based on a creature from Dark Star. I had up until that point not ever got more than ten minutes into watching that movie. I watched it since and while frankly I found it excruciating to watch, I did enjoy seeing the beachball monster.
ReplyDeleteI really like what you did with it Allison, it looks just perfect. How does it scale alongside a 28mm fig, is it roughly beachball sized? I would happily buy a handful of those if the Ion Age folks planned to make them, Im just saying :)
Ha, a movie like this is definitely a "love it or hate it" proposition. It's pretty weird and the pacing is amaterish. Not to mention un-likeable characters and film school production values. I don't think I'd watch it too often myself, it's an occasional pleasure :)
DeleteThis is about beachball-sized to a 28mm figure, I guess. If you really wanted one, I could make you one, but a "handful" might be too much work for lazy ol' me ;)