No Time for the Future

Starclipper of St. Louis hosted another gallery of local artists rendering and re-modeling Munnies, in celebration of the shop’s 20^th anniversary. The theme this time: “The Future” and, appropriately enough it was a series of unexpected events (what do you expect from “The Future”, anyhow?) which kept us from finishing ours in time for the opening. But finish them we did.

First off: “Yet Pack Man!”

While most robotic Munnies wear jet packs, “Yet Pack Man!” wears a pack for flying ahead into days yet to come, hence the “yet” instead of “jet.” Completely designed and decorated by my co-designer with Model Magic, Munny markers, cotton balls and paint. He got his goggles courtesy of a glow-in-the-dark Munny who would not need them.

Unexpected moment: marking up the goggles’ lens gave us a cool reflective surface…

And then there’s this one: “Riding a Head into the Future”

Unexpected moment: every step of the way. The original plan for this one involved cutting out the head of a glow-in-the-dark Munny and attaching a working clock, setting its time one hour into the future. As per usual, my vision exceeded my abilities and the cutting of the head came out more ragged than I had planned.

I attempted fitting two old broken watches (left to me by my grandfather) inside the goggles which came with the Munny, but found the fit too tight, so opted for making my own goggles out of Model Magic. I also took the top of his skull and glued it over the front mishap of a hole for a more-interesting shape. A third broken heirloom became a timely belt. Then I took some glittery silver gel to sparkle in contrast to the phosphorescence of the main body. It still lacked some balance in my eyes, so I took a miniature white Munny (to match the Model Magic) gave him a clock face and painted him with the silver gel then glued the final ragged leftover piece from the glow-in-the-dark model to the top of his head. Voila!