alienbuilder
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Hello,
back in the year 2011 and all these hype around prometheus I just remembered that I was a big friend of the alien movies once and I realized, that I still love the first part of these. So I decided to get an alien figure again, lets say for a kind of collection (not really movie depending). So after looking at what is available, I saw, that the only sculpt that really hit the look of the first alien would be the sano alien. all the other ones were problematic with the scull or the whole head in my opinion. So I decided to do my own made out of cast bronze, cause the sano one was hard to get and really expensive, and I also wanted to have something more heavy than plastic, just like a real sculpture (Ive studied art/sculpting at that time though).
After showing my clone helmet here, I want to share these photos now too. They are a lot, so maybe sometimes it might be not really in order.
here we go: these are the first steps of sculpting with wax. wax makes sense, cause it can be melt out for the bronze casting process directly( see the aluminum clone helmets)
as you can see, I sculpted not one part, but left the head, the torso with legs, arms, tubes and tail unconnected. I made a silicone form from all of these parts, so I was able to produce more. I made 10 statues, each a little bit different and sometimes changed pretty much, and also 2 more artist versions + one aluminum version.
this is the first cast:
the original sculpt ready to mould it into the cast mould..
this will be the alu version:
and some bad pictures of the finished cast...
back in the year 2011 and all these hype around prometheus I just remembered that I was a big friend of the alien movies once and I realized, that I still love the first part of these. So I decided to get an alien figure again, lets say for a kind of collection (not really movie depending). So after looking at what is available, I saw, that the only sculpt that really hit the look of the first alien would be the sano alien. all the other ones were problematic with the scull or the whole head in my opinion. So I decided to do my own made out of cast bronze, cause the sano one was hard to get and really expensive, and I also wanted to have something more heavy than plastic, just like a real sculpture (Ive studied art/sculpting at that time though).
After showing my clone helmet here, I want to share these photos now too. They are a lot, so maybe sometimes it might be not really in order.
here we go: these are the first steps of sculpting with wax. wax makes sense, cause it can be melt out for the bronze casting process directly( see the aluminum clone helmets)
as you can see, I sculpted not one part, but left the head, the torso with legs, arms, tubes and tail unconnected. I made a silicone form from all of these parts, so I was able to produce more. I made 10 statues, each a little bit different and sometimes changed pretty much, and also 2 more artist versions + one aluminum version.
this is the first cast:
the original sculpt ready to mould it into the cast mould..
this will be the alu version:
and some bad pictures of the finished cast...
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thumbsup:thumbsup Have you been really good. You have created a collection. There will be those who want to have the complete series !!! 
