Hudson: Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt?
Gorman: All we know is that there’s still no contact with the colony, and that a xenomorph may be involved.
Frost: Excuse me sir, a-a what?
Gorman: A xenomorph.
Hicks: It’s a bughunt.
I believe the kit is a remake of the old Halcyon kit (which i wish i had bought back then) Its vinyl and resin. I broke this kit every time i worked on it, every finger, every ‘spine’, all her hands, all the parts made from resin broke at least once. I came pretty close to just throwing it in a box and forgetting about it. Not to mention the tail was, in my opinion, molded upside down. If you set the tail to line up with her spinal things, she wont stand up. Anyway, even though i hated this kit, i do like the finished product for the most part.
Base was scratch built from that cool pink insulation you can carve into as well as chicken bones, wire harness things and lots and lots of glue.
I think it looks better in person, my old camera doesnt pick up all the detail it should, but here are the pics anyway. Enjoy
Bonus picture of a technically “unfinished” project.
Yes, the base was scratch built. I carved it out of pick insulation like so
Then i added little (i have no idea what to call them) things that i carved out of small pieces of the pink stuff like these:
I added those and took some chicken bones and made a mold of a few and casted a bunch which i added here and there along with small wire harnesses like so:
I used Woodland Scenic’s Water effects as the glue. Which was neat to work with since it holds some consistency and could be ‘stretched’ across the gaps to create those strange alien secretions like in Aliens.
Painted black, dry brushed with various greys and white and glossed over with Smoke mixed with Black. And a final heavy coat of Future for super glossiness.
As for the Queen, it was a big experiment. What it finally boiled down to was similar to the base. Black overall. then dusted with a dark blue using the airbrush. Dry brushed highlights with shades of White, and Silver, it of course looked too bright, So i mixed smoke with black again to make it darker.
I actually went to the hobby shop looking for “Clear Black” but could only find blue red and yellow. Smoke with black worked out though.
