hobbybobby Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 (edited) Alien³ Model Kit with Base, HALCYON, 1/9th Scale. The kit is very good, very easy, but I also think that it, first by the painting comes to its best advantage. Although, what is the "real" painting? Infos on the edge: Unlike many other recurring enemy extraterrestrial races in science fiction, the Aliens are not an intelligent civilization, but predatory creatures with no higher goals than the propagation of their species and the destruction of life that could pose a threat. Like wasps or termites, Aliens are eusocial, with a single fertile queen breeding a caste of warriors. The Aliens' biological life cycle, in which their offspring are violently implanted inside living hosts before erupting from their chests, is in many ways their signature aspect. Their life cycle comprises several distinct stages: they begin their lives as an egg, which hatches a parasitoid larval form known as a facehugger, which then attaches itself to a living host by, as its name suggests, latching onto its face. In the Alien 3 novelization, Ripley commented that this parasitoid would not likely be able to use a host any smaller than a cat, or as large as an elephant. The facehugger then "impregnates" the host with an embryo known as a "chestburster," which, after a gestation period of several hours, erupts violently from the host's chest resulting in the death of the host. The chestburster then matures to an adult phase within a few hours, shedding its skin and replacing its cells with polarized silicon. Due to Horizontal gene transfer during the gestation period, the Alien also takes on some of the basic physical attributes of the host from which it was born, allowing the individual alien to adapt to the host's environment. Their design deliberately evokes many sexual images, both male and female, to illustrate its blurring of human sexual dichotomy. Giger conceived the Alien as being vaguely human but a human in full armor, protected from all outside forces. He mandated that the creature have no eyes, because he felt that it made them much more frightening if you could not tell they were looking at you. Giger also gave the Alien's mouth a second inner set of Pharyngeal jaws located at the tip of a long, tongue-like proboscis which could extend rapidly for use as a weapon. His design for the creature was heavily influenced by an aesthetic he had created and termed biomechanical, a fusion of the organic and the mechanic. His mock-up of the Alien was created using parts from an old Rolls Royce car, rib bones and the vertebrae from a snake, molded with plasticine. Hmm, something like kitbasching or scratchbuilding... The Alien's animatronic head, which contained 900 moving parts, was designed and constructed by special effects designer Carlo Rambaldi. Giger and Rambaldi would both go on to win the 1980 Academy Award for Visual Effects for their design of the Alien. Giger however would comment that he thought the resulting film was "okay" and that the Alien was "better than in the second film"... This is my version, kolors and base mods, built several years ago. Now, the images, hope you like it. Edited November 24, 2013 by hobbybobby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Nice work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David G. Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Beautiful! Love the colors and pose. David G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PappyD340 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 AWESOME work Boban, but he looks hungry the way he is salivating I would say he has his eye on a tasty morsel of some sort!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Great Painting Bobby! Real Nice Drool too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the goon Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 That is soooo cool Love your painting. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarana-X Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 That came out beautiful! The detail painting on his head looks great. I built the Halcyon Aliens (II) warrior kit. It's also very well detailed, but kinda troublesome with some of the gaps and whatnot from what I remember. I also had the Predator II kit, but traded it a long time ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Wow! Fantastic! Your paint work is superb. Very nicely done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disabled modeler Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Very nice detailing and paint!....so good it gives me the creeps just looking at it...LOL... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbybobby Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 Thank you very much for the kind words! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kruleworld Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 I added drool to mine too. I love the way you've layered the paint on the skull, from the top you can make out the veins and skeleton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am73grand Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 That is AWESOME!!! Amazing paint work!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Joseph Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Hey, I don't know how I missed this when it was originally posted, but great job! You should show it over at the Clubhouse forum where all the figure modelers hang out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazyglu Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 That paint work is out of this world, which seems fitting for this subject. That drool is very convincing as well, very cool build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Great work on this...WoW.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasser59 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Very nicely doe. Love the layer on the paint. Really looks menacing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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