So, who else is working on a Crystal Skull?
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southreplicas
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... There are also 4 pictures. A design drawing said:
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Keep in mind that it's not supposed to be a solid piece of quartz or crystal. It's an Alien skull. Our skulls aren't solid bone. We've got a large amount of blood and cerebral fluid filling the space in our brain cavity that our brain doesn't take up. The way I see it, the alien skulls are similar in that reguard, only their's is taken up by a crystaline ether of sorts (which looks like seran wrap - and I'm not saying it isn't lame looking, because they really could have found a better way to accomplish it) which starts glowing and swirling when it's psychic powers starts acting up. The only reason everyone refers to it a a crystal skull is because upon first viewing it without knowing anything of it's true origin or identity, one would assume that's what it is, as there is precidence of crystal skulls being found in that area of the world in the past. None of them were geologists, nor would they have the scientific instruments on hand initially to test and show that it wasn't actual crystal (and alien bone may actually be made up of the same silicates that crystal is made of anyway). They were all archeologists, and military personel.
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So there is a way to explain it's hollow seran wrappy look if you allow for some imagination and suspention of belief (which you had to do for a lot of that movie anyway - though, it was a BLAST to watch).
Sorry, don't have a scanner. I'll see if my digicam can pull off any decent shots.
Here is a very bad picture of the skulls in the book just to get the idea.
I will have the book in hand tomorrow, so I can take better pics.
Thomas
I will have the book in hand tomorrow, so I can take better pics.
Thomas
thanks so much! wow, so the cg model there you can see a "brain" hard to see that in the final pice once that plastic wrap is shoved in there but at least that confirmes the hollowcast.
Interesting that the prototype sculpt there has the jaw closed where the finals are openned slightly.
Interesting that the prototype sculpt there has the jaw closed where the finals are openned slightly.
Here are some better shots:
Has anyone heard any burblings of a licensed one coming out yet? I'd be tempted to take a crack at one, but sure as hell, as soon as I got it sculpted and molded, here'd come Sideshow or somebody with a licensed one at a price I couldn't compete with, and I'd get "Spartan-ed" all over again. :unsure
-Sarge
-Sarge
Yeah, the bottom half looks completely identical to the crystal skull in the British Museum.
I haven't heard anything, but I don't keep on top of such news. It be a hell of a large and heaft piece to ship and fabricate. And to be perfectly honest, if I wanted a Spartan Helmet in my collection, I'd choose yours. It looks better and is priced better. I'm still planning on getting a Fett helm from you one of these days.
Except Indy describes it as such in the movie.
"A solid piece of quartz crystal, seamless..."
Any other speculation is just that: fancruft nonsense.
I know. It was just a fancruft theory I came up with for fun. I wasn't implying that was the rational intended behind it.
But just because Indy describes it as such after looking it for 5 seconds, doesn't make it true. It just appeared to be solid and seamless quartz upon first inspection. He had no idea what it really was until the Russians showed him in the tent.
Yeah, but then Commie Cate tells him specifically that it is crystal, at least of a sort. She makes that whole speech about finding an alien descendant and how it brightened their hopes because it was closer to the original ones becuase it had a crystal skeleton.
Where does he talk himself out of anything?
All he does is talk himself out of it being a purely mundane thing due to the extraordinary properties. Nothing more.
southreplicas
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I started a new topic for the interest list:
http://therpf.com/showthread.php?p=590323#post590323
If you really want a life size replica Crystal Skull please sign up!
Regards.
Martin
http://therpf.com/showthread.php?p=590323#post590323
If you really want a life size replica Crystal Skull please sign up!
Regards.
Martin
