ALIEN Statue cast in Bronze (1979 Movie version)

JamesM242 · May 19, 2020

that is just fantastic! thanks for sharing your progress!

alienbuilder · May 20, 2020

Thank you.

finished the 2nd one. Ist a little bit more standing up, like the museum one.

alienbuilder · May 29, 2020

finished the metal-work on the first cast. there are still some little holes in the surface, but in the end its cast metal, so the surface will never be as perfect as a resin cast. but anyway I am pretty satisfied how it came out. I will make a bronze base for it next week and I will give the figure a nice patina with silver nitrate. I have used it at my last attempt of a bronze alien and it worked out very well. The Silver gives it a grayish color that is rally close to the alien appearance in the movie.

the second sculpture is in the oven now too, so it will be cast next week...

daredevil665 · May 29, 2020

Fantastic Work!!

alienbuilder · May 29, 2020

daredevil665 said:
Fantastic Work!!

thank you very much! your own 1:1 statue and lights bust was a big inspiration and reference for this one. Hope you and your relatives/friends came good through the bad corona time in italy! Glad that the situation is getting better now.

JamesM242 · May 29, 2020

That is just OUTSTANDING!

Stormy320 · May 30, 2020

Looks cool.

How big is it?

alienbuilder · May 30, 2020

Stormy320 said:
Looks cool.

How big is it?

Thanks. It is in fact a small Figure. The high is around 30 cm. To compare: the Cola bottle above is a 0,5l glas bottle.

Stormy320 · May 30, 2020

Doh - I missed the Coke. Thanks

Are you going to offer them for sale?

alienbuilder · May 30, 2020

Stormy320 said:
Doh - I missed the Coke. Thanks

Are you going to offer them for sale?

I am not sure about that. Maybe. But if, it will be just a few figures. Maybe I will do 10 slightly different statues but I will keep 2 or 3 myself and another 3 are already reserved by friends of mine. It also depends on the costs for the casting I ll have to pay to the foundry. So a bronze cast is of course much more expensive than resin.
But the whole thing is still at the beginning. I ll have to see how the next figures come out and how the steel teeth will work...

Rymo · May 30, 2020

Wow. It's such a beautiful sculpt. Amazing job! I particularly like the use of guitar strings for the ribbed details.

alienbuilder · May 30, 2020

Rymo said:
Wow. It's such a beautiful sculpt. Amazing job! I particularly like the use of guitar strings for the ribbed details.

Thanks. It´s actual just wire I wrapped with another using a drill driver. Much cheaper than guitar stings and you can also use the diameter you need. But I thought of using guitar strings and also coils for e-cigarettes when I started sculpting.

Clutch · May 30, 2020

Gonna do a run of these guys?

alienbuilder · May 31, 2020

Clutch said:
Gonna do a run of these guys?

maybe a very small number run, I don´t know if you can call it a run. My plan now is to make around 10 slightly different figures in different poses and some with stainless steel teeth. I will keep 2 by my self and some are reserved for some friends of mine. but its still not clear, how much my costs for the foundry are and. Maybe I ll be able to offer 3 or 5 figures, but as I said, I´ll have to see, how the next figures will come out. still at the beginning.

alienbuilder · Jun 5, 2020

the first one is finished

. the silver nitrate worked out well again. very cool stuff and just the right thing to give bronze an alien touch, but still looks like a real material and not painted.