Avant! Forward Thinking

This will be a animated prop - meaning that the chest buster will be attached to an air ram that will pop the little guy out of the chest.

Here are the first pics. This is using a homemade torso that has been re purposed every year for different props.

This face hugger will be removable and be able to be worn on someone’s face.

I call this thing a “queen” because it is a bit larger than the standard face hugger. I am going to use it as a “hero” prop and wanted something that will startle and be detailed, so I got a little bigger than normal. There will be a more to scale face hugger created for the chest buster prop. I still need to do the underside. Here is the chronicle of creating it in 2 weeks:

4:00pm 7/1 - Pretty much completed.

360 video here

9:00am 6/30 - Closer. Tail is built, just needs to be skinned. About half painted. A little mood lighting:

6:00PM 6/27 - Noticed that the “spine” wasn’t pronounced enough so I built it up . Finished skinning the legs. Once the spine add-on dries need to skin the rest and build the tail. Then paint. Should be ready by the 3rd.

7:00am 6/25 - He can stand on his very own. He’s gotten so grown up! Still playing around with colors and shading.

7:00pm 6/23 - Getting closer:

3:00pm 6/23 - As other pieces dry, started playing around with shading and colors. This will be painted over once I figure out what colors work best.

12:00pm 6/22 - Used lunch hour to give 1 full layer of paper on the legs and rest of body. Tail and detail shaping will be next.

8:00pm 6/21 - 24 hours in and more detail on the head and legs. 1 pic with flash and 1 without to show more depth

8:00am 6/21 - Started doing some shaping on the head and legs. Replace strips of newspaper with heavy paper towel to allow easier shaping and design.

8:00pm 6/20 - Built the basic structure out of cardboard, wire, and packing paper held together by duct tape. Started the initial covering of newspaper and carpet glue.

One of my most ambitious builds is to see how much of a full-size Alien Xenomorph I can build by the October deadline.

It’s almost embarrassing to post some of these pictures because I doesn’t look like much - but I can see it all in my head. I am continuing to massage the shape but it starts out with chicken wire and duct tape.

This is based off the original Alien design which had a human skull under the headpiece, hence the reason for the skull as a starting point.

This is the first day of getting an idea of the size:

Now there is more of a shape and half a roll of duct tape…

I’ll keep updating as I get farther in the build.

Until October, I am hijacking this tumblr blog (like I was writing on it anyway) to chronicle my Halloween haunted house build for 2011 - The theme is the movie Alien.

This is just a warning.