Hi, id just like to say thanks to everyone arround here, I had to make some aliens costumes for an LRP game this weekend, and fron using the reasearch i found here i have managed it just about, 7 of the below aliens from scratch in 2 months for under £500

thatks a lot, id love some feedback, the pics arnt of the finished costume, i still need to airbrush it up and detail etc, and the latex is still wet so it looks patchy, it should look much more subtle and silvery when its dry

thanks
mark/ wookie

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That's pretty impressive for a 2 month scratch build...
I particularly like the chest and arms..

Im sure some of our resident bugs will stick their long heads in pretty soon.
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This is a great scratch built bug costume! I too love the ribs section! Its very well put together!


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Nice job! Did I read correctly? Seven suits in two months?
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Outstanding. Now all we need is a deck of cards.

yep 7 suits from nothing in 2 months, i was aiming for 10, but couldent manage it

after the game i will sculpt a propper head and take new casts and mount them onto a lycra suit, maby sell 1 on ebay (if it sells) i need to do hand and feet as well for a sale version as well as better back spikes, but hay

atm i have 4/6 fingered hands going thumb, 2 fused toghetr fingers another2 fused fingers and then another thumb.

nice work buddy. please post some pics of the suits in action, if poss.

great when
people make scratch builds, well done.

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Man, great work for so little time. Be nice to see what you could do with a little more breathing room.
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here you go some of the shots from the weekend, it was a great sucess, thanks again for your input, now for nextime, i have to make an alien queen, any suggetions greatfully recived

wookie

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The shot of everyone in the doorway looks very cool Looks like it went well, Congtrats on putting it all together mate.

Darren

HI again all, im here for some more help, we are running a sequal to the event we ran before, so im mounting the aliens on lycra and they look much better, adding some extra sculpted sections to fill in some gaps.

What i am realy after this is some idea if anyone here has seen or herad of anyone making an Alien Queen

the idea i have is based on the walking with dinosaurs live show, but much simpler

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=742586&l=8322129e44&id=517617218
black = structural members, im thinking plastic pipes
red = foam/ fabric shell
green = operator

is the concept sketch, has anyone seen anything simalar, or another way of doing it etc tec

thanks

wookie

I figured id start a little blog type thing here with how im getting on with the alien queen, we just started actuall building at the weekend so here we go



thats what im using as the basis for the design, i have one of the toys im bidding on on ebay so i can use it as a maquette for the skining elements

and



is the start of the framework for the skelatal structure

size wise the top of the crest is about 3m high and it should be about 5 m long, it should also be able to rear up to about 5 m tall

as it rears up the head looks down and as it lowers down the head starts to look forward

also here is a pic of our newly revised aliens

Nice work on both! The queen structure is amazing!

The aliens are getting there, not a patch on what a lot of the ones ive seen here are, but i will hopefully have 15 of them in a few months, i should realy work out a better head, but its just so much work for waht isnt that big a return for what we use them for. the queen however should be huge and awesome, i will try and get the legs on it at the weekend and do a walking test, will probably not get there, but its worth setting goals

http://www.mandalastudios.co.uk/uploads/queen/IMG_3847.jpg

here is our queen as its progressing a bit more, its all been going qite slow, but now the legs are nearly done hope fully we will get to the fun bit soon and start skinning it

Amazing stuff for such a short spate of time. Well done.

Jason

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Indeed. Looks good so far.

*Looks at 2nd post timestamp*
Feb 2007...? Seems like only weeks ago..

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here is a new pic of the queen, we are a bit further on than this now, but those pix are on another camera, we hope to be building the crest next weekend

That queen is starting to look awesome. Cant wait to see it covered in sheets andlatex and whatever else youre going to put on it. Well done onthe Alien suits too! the amount of suits youve knocked out in this time period is very impressive!

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here is a later pic witha cleaned up bakground

we have just put the chicken wire onto the body, witch i will cover in cling film and gaffertape to section up into patten pieces to make the foam shell body

FANTASTIC! Lookin' good. Thanks for the update...almost as good as a time-lapse video.
I hope you have smooth sailing with the poultry mesh/cling film/Gaffer's tape phase.

I have added a fw new pix showing the chect covered in chicken wire so you ca see what shape it going to be, and there is a skin on thye tail now, but its a bit tight, so ill have to make another and losen off the lycra, as its stoping it moveing properly and it lots a little odd

enjoy

Outstanding. I love scratchbuilds..

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some new pix, this time showing the tape skin in preperation, you can see how i devide up the peices of tape to make the foam shell in some of the pix

Great work! I wish I had the talent or space to try something like this!