[MOC] Muse's "Psycho"

[TheOneVeyronian]

A new MOC from me! If anybody really knows me or has paid attention to my signature or avatar recently, they should know I'm stark raving bonkers about Muse (a British rock band), and their recent new album got me inspired to MOC some stuff based on the promotional artworks for the songs. One such artwork is that for Psycho:

It's basically a human possessed by a mind virus carrying a baby, and I thought it would make a pretty cool Constraction figure. And here's my result:

A full gallery with some alternate views, poses and close-up shots can be found in this Flickr album.

Yes, the mottled effect in the artwork is exceptionally difficult to achieve, and probably would have been a lot better in military colours, but since there isn't a wide range of green and olive shells out there, I just dissassembled Jetran'Rex and used silver and gunmetal instead.

Comments, praise, constructive criticism, questions and stuff relating to the MOC are welcome. I think there are other places where the song and band that inspired this can be discussed

Enjoy!

[LegoPanda]

This looks awesome, it really captures the image of the cover art. I love their music too

[TheOneVeyronian]

Thanks, and hey, nice to meet yet another Muse fan!

The head was the hardest part to build (it's essentially 90% of a Lowell Sphere, would have done it in CCBS like the rest of the MOC but I couldn't get the shape I wanted that way), the end result is pretty solid and doesn't fall apart when you go to pose it, but my goodness it was by far the most frustrating and fiddly thing I've designed that would always fall apart when I went to put a panel on

And to think that this is actually my first MOC with proper human proportions (if you can ignore the feet of course)

[Darking]

Man, as a die-hard fan of both Lego and Muse, I have to say this is frigging amazing! I'd like to see your take at other of the conceptual art pictures from the album.

[TheOneVeyronian]

Man, as a die-hard fan of both Lego and Muse, I have to say this is frigging amazing! I'd like to see your take at other of the conceptual art pictures from the album.

Thanks very much! I do in fact have a LEGO rendition of the artwork for "The Handler" too (made in LDD), but just haven't got round to posting it yet (it'll be posted in Special Themes when I do upload it given that one is 0% Constraction).

I might try the other artworks including the album cover for Drones (the album that these artworks relate too, but you knew that), but no guarantees on that!

Edited June 19, 2015 by TheOneVeyronian