After two years of hard labour and many experimentations, I can finally introduce the first Belgian alien warrior ever to exist. My costume isn't fully completed yet, but it is wearable, presentable and already made quite an impression on its first outing last weekend.

It has already received its nickname: "Barney", after the character from the Simpsons. That's because I spent quite some time on the afterparty on Saturday, where new cups of (Belgian) beer just got pushed into my hands so fast I lost track of where they kept coming from. The result was the Alien Warrior kinda zigzagged on the convention the next day.

I haven't got any pictures myself, so I'll start with some I found online.

Barney and some droids


http://users.telenet.be/admiral/r2d2/Ko ... G_1619.JPG

Barney attempts to bite Lara Croft


And a short Youtube film which shows how the costume moves, although here, I just came out of the Stargate set we made and could hardly move around due to being instantly surrounded by photographers. If flashes could kill, I woulda been so very damn dead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYkW570C6-E

Hehe, great work dude! That's what it's all about: Photo whoring, then finding pics of yourself all over the web and youtube!

I hope Barney and Abe get to play at a future event!! Of course, it's a short flight to Leicester and the NSC Sci-Fi event where we have hundreds of willing victims lined up for the "Alien Encounter"!

AMAZING bug suit mate!!! And cool name too!

How did you make your tail harness? It looks pretty good!

It's good seein gmore bugz on ere! lol

Bri

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NSC: no go. Barney will be in Stockholm at the time, trying to grab a bite of Lance Henriksen.

Barney looks awesome! You've done a good job.

However, have you thought about painting subtle higlights onto the detail? Would look great for photos and videos, as it will be slightly less flat black.

Very impressive work though!

I know. Painting highlights is part of what still needs to be done.

If your going to highlight the alien - may I suggest using the sponging effect! Just dab on the paint that you are using and it also helps blend the different tones together!

Here is an example:



Works a treat!!

Bri

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Excellent! Please post pics when you're done!

That'll be a while. From November 2nd till November 5th, Barney will visit Stockholm. Then on November 9th, 10th and 11th he's been requested to chase gamers, tv-show hosts, famous Belgian people and Miss Belgian Beauty finalists on a LAN-party. I can't start on the work before all that is done, for it will take a while and I'd rather have an alien painted in nothing but its base colours, than one that's halfway detailed and painted.

One more pic. They are still coming in.

There's still more out there, but yesterday I got a couple of nice ones.

Peek-a-boo!!




Celebrity deathmatch: Barney vs Finn!


OOOOoooooohh... candy-y!

awsome. looks really great!

Guess whos coming to dinner?

Russ

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i now that girl in the back with the camera
she is from an dutch starwars site

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impressive...most impressive