The AMOEBA

Actually STEM and not Sci-Fi/Fantasy :nerd_face:

Finally finished The AMOEBA kit from Atlantis Models #L3800. Scale: Humongous

Entire kit is molded in clear styrene. It was like, all canopy and windows. No wheels or tracks. Very little cleanup and the fit was great!

Adolescents - Amoeba (Live at Amoeba)

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First released in 1963!!!

You did an excellent job building and painting the model. The blue you chose is perfect. It would be very funny if you added a small Starship Enterprise.

Now I want to make something similar.

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Thank you for the compliments.
Ah yeah, the Star Trek episode. Weirdly remember that.
The blue is from a Krylon can, Sea Glass series colors.

The Adolescents were just here in Atlanta back in April.

Touring with the Descendents and the Circle Jerks.

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You did an excellent job on the amoeba!! I really like your choice of colors. Your project reminds me of that scene in “Fantastic Voyage” when the antibodies attack Raquel Welch. Yes…I’m that old!! :smile:

PS. Excellent tuneage!! :sunglasses:

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You could do a scene from the movie, “The Blob”. You just need a figure of Steve McQueen. :+1:
:smiley: :canada:

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@brekinapez Circle Jerks with Keith Morris?? RAD!

@Harv Thanks! I was going for all black wash and clear to look like an actual microscopic image in a Petri dish or a slide but it wasn’t quite translating the way I wanted so I added the color with Krylon Sea Glass.
Yeah, a few small scale figures next to it may add more scale interest :grin:
And those guys in the band aren’t Adolescents anymore either :rofl:

@Biggles50 :bulb: Very interesting idea…

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Yes, and he is still the same a-hole he was when I saw them the first time in '86.
And no, none of us are adolescents anymore. When I saw 7 Seconds two years ago (with the Jerks, actually) I thought it funny how Kevin Seconds looked like a fat house dad and not the skinny teen I remembered from decades earlier.

I look the same as I did in college (same weight!) except instead of long hair on my head and none on my chin I now have long hair on my chin and none on my head.

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Haha, great story.

Thanks for posting this. Cool subject. I love seeing something built other than wingy thingies and clanky tankies and floaty boaties.

(Notice how I did not include trains!?)

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Indeed I did :grin:

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Even cooler if you coat the inside with luminous paint, put splotches of clear colours on the outside, and set it afloat in a toilet bowl with the lid up, the neighbours garden pond, or a swimming pool…
:smiling_imp:
Cheers,

M

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You are evil, and I love it!

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Those are great! Always good to something completely different done.
I picked up one of these last year on a whim. Had the idea of using the big amoaba as a backdrop to my Polar Lights 1:1000 TOS Enterprise and recreate the episode ‘The Immunity Syndrome’.
Will have to shop around for some clear paints to do. I’ve got Tamiyas but the range is a little limited in colour variety.

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