Alien statue restoration

Well a friend of mine has a lot of statues etc, one of them, an Alien, had started to degrade quite badly, An Alien statue, oversized, roughly ten feet tall, made of latex and polyfoam, don't know the maker.
It had been constructed over a steel armature, unfortunately the metal had not been covered, it needs a barrier between it and the foam and latex, as bare metal rots foams and latex quite quickly.
here it is before i got to work on it

you can see the joints separating in this pic


the hand was really degraded, i had to strip out the foam, and replace it, also had to do this in the forearms and other places, after stabilising everything as best as i could, i repainted the figure, it had been painted bright blue and pink, i covered that with black and silver, with other highlights here and there, ideally i would have loved to do a more detailed paintjob, but time and budget didn't allow.
He wanted an inner tongue making, and lots of drool, he loved the yellow drool, (which was actually old epoxy,) so i added more and will colour it to match on monday.





working on a few other bits for him soon

 

Great job on the restoration.

I would have been tempted to make the entire statue to be more accurate by making a new head and hands.

 

Nice job. It's great to see a statue like this preserved.. Love the drool by the way :thumbsup

 

Thats cool :cool lovely job :thumbsup

 

OH MY GOD !!! you do realise everything in that room is welcome to the Prop Party :love

Great Job mate looking forward to seeing the end results :thumbsup

 

cheers everyone, yeah he has some cool stuff, the lower floor of his club is packed witrh stuff, he has this display area behind glass


The R2 in this pic has motors in lights etc, and its stuck in here, with his head on backwards, i need to get in and remove the batterys from it, i'm sure they'll damage it if left in and not used

 

Thats a really well done job frosty!!! Very cool.

 

Wow, a full body version of Takeya's alien. I've only seen the busts of that.

 

Holy cow, thats a prop party venue right there :lol

 

Great resto job Frosty, the drool is a fantastic touch, breathes some life into the statue!

 

Really nice collection. Love the ET

 

Nice rescue! It looks like it was in real bad shape

 

excellent work.

he looks really hungry with that drool.

I'd be scared to have that thing in my house.

 

Some what more insect like. But, overall. Keep going man!

Takes skill to complete for a full restoration. =]