About 4 hours later, I had my scorpion. The pincers and stinger are made from metaballs, the rest is spheres. Here is the wireframe.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy