AlphaTech686
Active Member
Ok so here are some photos I found from 1992. You have to remember there were no decent photos out of the predator at that time. All I had was the video. I paused it and took photos off the tv for references. I swear it looked green to me. The quality of most of these photos is just ok as they are photo of photos I just took. There were no digital pictures back then.
This had radio controlled lower mandibles so here is one with his mouth open.
We found this kid at the park that day and believe it or not he had this camo stuff on.
The skull in this picture has part of my face and teeth on it. I don't know why I
didn't put blood the the teeth. I had a face cast so I made a quick partial mask
and glued it to a skull.
Here are a few I found of the sculpt. The dreads you see where surgical tubing
with latex tips that I fabricated. They weighed a ton so eventually I figured out the whole
2 part foam thing and replaced them.
Here is the inside of the mask. You can see the cable running to the mandible. You have to look hard at the others
to see the servios.
Here is the vest.
He now hangs from my ceiling in my art room.
You can see the dreads have deteriorated over the years. The mask has held up
well.
Here was the bio before it was aged. The only lasers available back then were for guns and they were $120.00
bucks a piece. I asked for one for Christmas from my wife so this bio had one lasers. It was pretty hot **** at
costume contests. No one had scene anything like it before.
here are some of my first functional gauntlet. The first 2 photos are old and the others I took last night. I hadn't
opened this thing in almost 20 years. The alluminum blades slid on tracks. I used a door lock soliniod as the latch
to hold the blades against the spring. A button activated the soliniod releasing the blades. I wanted something cool
to retract them so I used a key chain with a spring loaded retractable chain. I mounted the inerds between the blades.
When the blades where out I would grab the ring at the back an pull the blades back in. Once they were all the way retracted I would tap the guantlet on my thigh hitting a button on the side of the gauntlet that activated the door lock soliniod in the opposite direction to reingage the latch. The chain would then recoil back in place out of site.
Here is the back pack and cannon. The cannon has an arm in side that is attched to a motor. I could push
a button on the wrist computer and the gun would swing up. The cannon sat of top of 2 remote control servos so it could move in almost any direction. That is a camera flash mounted in the front. That worked well in night clubs at contests. After a couple years lasers prices came down and I mounted one beside the flash in the cannon. Who ever I had controlling the mask would run the cannon also. We would alway scan the laser on woman breast. Everyone got a
kick out of that.
The feet had lifts in them similar ro what I did in the Topknot feet. The sculpt was primitive. You have to
remember back then no one really knew what his feet looked like. There was know Lair and infact the internet
was just coming to be.
Here are the hands I sculpted back then. I did not have an airbrush obviously but I did the best I could.
Speaking of no Internet. Here is a photo of an add I ran in Sci-Fi Entertainment. Believe it or not there was nothing
out there like what I was selling. Things have changed.
Thanks for looking. Time flies when you're having fun.
This had radio controlled lower mandibles so here is one with his mouth open.
We found this kid at the park that day and believe it or not he had this camo stuff on.
The skull in this picture has part of my face and teeth on it. I don't know why I
didn't put blood the the teeth. I had a face cast so I made a quick partial mask
and glued it to a skull.
Here are a few I found of the sculpt. The dreads you see where surgical tubing
with latex tips that I fabricated. They weighed a ton so eventually I figured out the whole
2 part foam thing and replaced them.
Here is the inside of the mask. You can see the cable running to the mandible. You have to look hard at the others
to see the servios.
Here is the vest.
He now hangs from my ceiling in my art room.
You can see the dreads have deteriorated over the years. The mask has held up
well.
Here was the bio before it was aged. The only lasers available back then were for guns and they were $120.00
bucks a piece. I asked for one for Christmas from my wife so this bio had one lasers. It was pretty hot **** at
costume contests. No one had scene anything like it before.
here are some of my first functional gauntlet. The first 2 photos are old and the others I took last night. I hadn't
opened this thing in almost 20 years. The alluminum blades slid on tracks. I used a door lock soliniod as the latch
to hold the blades against the spring. A button activated the soliniod releasing the blades. I wanted something cool
to retract them so I used a key chain with a spring loaded retractable chain. I mounted the inerds between the blades.
When the blades where out I would grab the ring at the back an pull the blades back in. Once they were all the way retracted I would tap the guantlet on my thigh hitting a button on the side of the gauntlet that activated the door lock soliniod in the opposite direction to reingage the latch. The chain would then recoil back in place out of site.
Here is the back pack and cannon. The cannon has an arm in side that is attched to a motor. I could push
a button on the wrist computer and the gun would swing up. The cannon sat of top of 2 remote control servos so it could move in almost any direction. That is a camera flash mounted in the front. That worked well in night clubs at contests. After a couple years lasers prices came down and I mounted one beside the flash in the cannon. Who ever I had controlling the mask would run the cannon also. We would alway scan the laser on woman breast. Everyone got a
kick out of that.
The feet had lifts in them similar ro what I did in the Topknot feet. The sculpt was primitive. You have to
remember back then no one really knew what his feet looked like. There was know Lair and infact the internet
was just coming to be.
Here are the hands I sculpted back then. I did not have an airbrush obviously but I did the best I could.
Speaking of no Internet. Here is a photo of an add I ran in Sci-Fi Entertainment. Believe it or not there was nothing
out there like what I was selling. Things have changed.
Thanks for looking. Time flies when you're having fun.
