Its one jaw hinged so it opens & closes. The tongue tucks away inside when the jaw is closed, it then drops a little, slides out & the little jaws on the tongue also open on hinges.
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Thanks for the feedback folks I've been working on the tendons today
Reading this thread was a wild ride! The patience, dedication and commitment to detail displayed here is inspiring. And of course the bust is looking phenomenal, I can't wait to see it finished!
Splendid work Leigh! It´s amazing, that having Giger´s creature around me far more than the half of my life and spending recreating it as well for a long time, You managed to make it scare me again Thumps up!
Nice updates.Love it.I think the difference between the coolprops and your Alien is,that coolprops is the dead prop head.Very nice but no life in it.
And yours is a lifesize statue that is catching a moment from the movie how the Alien lives.:thumbsup
I'm still working on this, little bits here & there & as usual I'm making changes... still
In an effort to get the desired look I'm going to have to make another jaw mould, more teeth moulds for the tongue & the main teeth. I've modified the lips, created new parts & rejigged the tendons, moulds to be made of that lot too
I've opened up the sides of the jaw so that the tongue can be seen when the mouth is closed, to me this is a closer look to the Rambaldi head than I could achieve with the original jaw.
I cant find a urethane rubber that's soft enough in clear so it looks like I'll have to use silicone. The glue will be expensive & I don't even know how good it holds. So I'm making the parts with as much gluing surface area as possible & including shapes into the parts so they almost hold themselves in place.
I still have everything in rigid urethane plastic at the moment & I'm not far off starting the moulds for these
Here's just a couple of pics of how he looks so far