"These little guys took between 40 minutes and 2 hours each, totaling around 50 hours of work.
I
like action figures. I have a small collection of them. I’ve noticed
that you can buy Albert Einstein figures, Nikola Tesla bobble-heads and
The Simpsons even brought out a Stephen Hawking figure based on his
appearance in an episode. However, I thought it’d be really cool if
there was an entire series of them, based on all of the people who’ve
contributed to our understanding of the world and the universe it sits
in.
The figures are all based on Star Trek: TNG and Star Trek:
DS9 figures (primarily Odo from DS9, and Picard as Dixon Hill from TNG),
and have been heavily modified in Photoshop using Liquify and a great
deal of digital painting. Unfortunately, the figures aren’t real. I wish
they were.
I realise there are a *lot* of scientists that I’ve
missed! I did make a few rules for who I’d include in this selection,
which are:
the scientist must have been alive at some point in
the 20th century. This is a practical consideration, as it really
narrows the field down, and it eliminates a lot of the more
outrageously-dressed characters, allowing me to work with mostly dudes
in suits.
No scientists famous for major medical breakthroughs.
Primarily because medical heroes is a category all of its own, and there
are hundreds to choose from. I’ve included Alexander Fleming here,
because he was primarily a chemist, and because his discovery of
penicillin was not a discovery made in the course of trying to cure
something."
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