Alien³

[hobbybobby]

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

[cobraman]

Nice work.

[David G.]

Beautiful! Love the colors and pose.

David G.

[PappyD340]

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!!

[Ira]

Great Painting Bobby!

Real Nice Drool too...

[the goon]

That is soooo cool Love your painting.

Mark

[Zarana-X]

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.

[Harry P.]

Wow! Fantastic! Your paint work is superb. Very nicely done.

[disabled modeler]

Very nice detailing and paint!....so good it gives me the creeps just looking at it...LOL...

[hobbybobby]

Thank you very much for the kind words!

[kruleworld]

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

[am73grand]

That is AWESOME!!! Amazing paint work!!!!

[Chief Joseph]

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.

[krazyglu]

That paint work is out of this world, which seems fitting for this subject. That drool is very convincing as well, very cool build.

[slusher]

Great work on this...WoW..

[gasser59]

Very nicely doe. Love the layer on the paint. Really looks menacing.