Halloween Scorpion Pumpkin

This is definitely just a harmless little Halloween jack-o-lantern. No reason to ever think it's anything else. Don't worry about turning your back on it.

This was inspired in part by Megawillbot's Halloween Pumpkin Spider Transformer, though the actual design was drawn completely from scratch. I wanted to make a design that was a bit more mechanically ambitious, and then the idea of making the stem into the stinger of a scorpion struck me, and the rest of the design followed from there.

Admittedly, it's not a very accurate scorpion. Wrong number of legs, and the legs are way too long, and the shape of the body isn't right either. But it does make a very nice pumpkin.



There's probably enough space behind the face plate where someone could stick in some LEDs and a battery, if you wanted to make it light up.

To assemble:

Note - this is a somewhat challenging model to assemble, with a lot of parts, and a lot of tight-fitting pins to hold the parts of the toy together. Y