fuckyeahtattoos:

Done by the ever-so-talented Kristen Fristed of New York, here’s my legendary LEGO Futuron spaceman and Castle Forestman minifig tattoos!

As some of you folks know already, the red Futuron astronaut from the mid-late 1980s Space sets is my all-time favorite minifigure — that I never actually owned. As a young child, I wanted that one figure more than anything, but alas could not, as it was rare and came in more expensive sets (my family was poor)! The most abundant astronauts were the blue and yellow ones, which came in most models. In the summer of 2010, I visited Kristen in Brooklyn to get an original tattoo piece done on my right forearm.

The way I see it, the red spaceman was the one toy I always wanted, and now with the magic of permanent inking, I have one forever! The tattoo base was drawn by me in Adobe Illustrator (in vector form) using an actual instruction booklet scan, then Kristen did her thing:

One year later in September 2011, Kristen bestowed upon me a larger minifig tattoo — a Castle Forestman — another favorite minigfure of mine, that I actually had multiples of as a child! This little fella is much larger than my spaceman, and is on my upper right forearm near my elbow-pit.

^^^^^^^^^^ best tattoos ever