NEW: ALIEN Emergency Helmet from NOSTROMO!

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It’s the latest from Stephen Laboyteaux of ALIEN Environmental Suit fame! :D

ALIEN Emergency Helmet!

You recall this from the opening scene of ALIEN, where the Nostromo computer wakes up and the two helmets appear to be "talking" to each other. (the helmets are there throughout the movie but that's their big scene).

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These are not actually for sale, it was just a small run he did for some friends. I contributed by drawing the many registration marks and decals that cover the helmet.

Superb!



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LOVIN IT...top work. Does it have an interior padded section so you can wear it? Looks like the original has one.

Great work. You must be proud of it.
 
Thanks! Mine does not have the interior padded section, that part on the original was ripped out from an aviation pressure suit. Rather complex and unique. It was suggested that a scuba hood might make an acceptable substitute.

Also the prop helmets look similar to one another but are assembled different ways. This one that was on Propstore has the dark and clear visors attached to each other, and the pivot mechanism is different. The one mine was based on, has got the dark visor attached to the helmet itself.

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Nick, only a sculptor would notice that!

k
 
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It's amazing that, once you start looking for them, you find those helmets all over the damn film. :lol

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Also, it's kind of inexplicable why there's a RIPLEY nameplate where the white spacesuit was hanging. They can't possibly have white suits for all seven astronauts in that little closet.

It's almost as if the set dresser had read the script! :lol

Karl
 
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What's the red heart shaped flap on the front for? A cannon purpose or is it just to make it unique?

I'll field that one. The Emergency Helmet is made in part from bits of an R.A.F. "Taylor" Type E partial pressure helmet

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The red hatch allows for insertion of a drinking tube, or, in direr circumstances, allows you to... er, vomit. :sick

Note how for ALIEN they moved the red hatch from the chin of the helmet dome, to the middle of the faceplate visor itself!

k
 
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