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Brett: Here, kitty. Here, kitty, kitty. Enough of that kitty crap. Jones. Jonesy? Here, Jonesy. Meow. Meow. Jonesy? Here, kitty, kitty, kitty. Meow. Here, Jonesy. Jonesy? "In space no one can hear you scream"; Alien, 1979.
Obviously, this is neither an Ellen Ripley quote nor is Jones, the Nostromo's orange tabby cat, in this scene. But this is the closest (and easiest to recognise) I could get to visualising one of Ripley's terrifyingly close encounters with the Alien from Ridley Scott's original 1979 movie.
I neither have an orange tabby cat figurine (only a black Schleich cat), nor an Alien figurine. So: improvise. At first, I by all means wanted to include Jonesy the ship cat, because how else should I justify picking a part of that famous quote as a title? But at only 3 inches, Jonesy was a little too much for the scene, so I decided to stick with Ripley and the Alien, while keeping that quote because it is so memorable. I think anyone who watched that movie also remembers this scene when Parker and Brett ventured out to find both the Alien and Jones (and how many of us intensely hoped the Alien wouldn't find the cat first?)
As the Alien, Veloci, my small but ferocious (and gentle at heart) velociraptor mini Schleich figurine, stepped in. So one might even say this is "Alien, Jurassic Park edition". And as Ellen Ripley, the only (human) survivor of the Nostromo, I was able to cast a Lego Minis astronaut space lady ("I love strong female characters in sci-fi movies. I was born to play Ripley. Sigourney who? Never heard of her.").
To create the Alien's sleek, pill- or capsule-shaped head, I borrowed the space lady's helmet visor. While Veloci didn't like that the visor covered her eyes, she still very professionally played along. I also tried a few things to create the Alien's second jaw (a short nail or screw, for instance, but everything was too long and/or wide for Veloci's tiny jaw), so let's say I captured the very moment before the Alien made use of its pharyngeal jaw.
The setup itself was as simple as it gets: just Veloci, disguised with the visor, space lady Ellen Ripley, already wearing her space suit, a round black piece of cardboard as a divider (a leftover from the 3D puzzle ball solar system set; it held Saturn's cardboard rings together before the assembly), a black background, and one single "shot". Just what Ripley needed to blow the Alien into space.
And why "Alien", of which I am a huge fan (the entire franchise, but especially all the movies that include Ripley/Sigourny Weaver)? When the movie came to German cinemas in late 1979, I was too young to watch it, so while I stayed at home, my Mom and an older cousin of mine went to see it. They returned unexpectedly early. Of course, I eagerly wanted to know about the movie and why they were back already. There are two possibilities of which scene finally made them leave the theatre (my Mom doesn't remember exactly which): either the facehugger or the chestbreaker scene. I couldn't by a mile imagine what they told me about that scene that scared them out of the theatre, so, from that moment, I knew I had to see it with my own eyes one day.
HMM, dear Flickr friends! (I'll catch up with you later tonight.)
In this ventral view, one cannot deny the similarity of this tiny, scorpion-tailed spider to the Alien face-hugger....the parasitic lifeform that hatches from xenomorph eggs in the Alien movie franchise.
But this little spider is just 10 mm total length.
These distinctive looking Australian spiders were given their common name because they sometimes curl the ends of their abdomens upwards in much the same way as a scorpion does - but there is no venom loaded sting to this tail.
Males are much smaller and lack the extended abdomen.
Link to lateral shot: www.flickr.com/photos/112623317@N03/52576648769/in/datepo...
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Day 18 of the Month of Love
Love can take you when you least expect it
I just had to use this Facehugger (called Fleshbug) from [Krova] somewhere in this month about love - they're all about Free Hugs, right?
I'm also sporting a couple of gifts from the Valentine Shop & Hop - No_Loveletter hair by no.match and the Anti-Cupid top from ZFG.
Live size facehugger and egg.
The facehugger is inspired by the one of AL13N163NA (www.flickr.com/photos/64160018@N08/albums/72157632840630539).
The egg is 50 cm high and 35 cm wide. The Facehugger is 1 meter long.
It was exciting to come across this unique scorpion-tailed spider recently.
Arachnura higginsi is just 10 mm in length, but what wonderment in those few, tiny mm. This is a latero-ventral view, seen hanging in the centre of a small orb web in green shrubs.
These distinctive looking Australian spiders were given their common name because they sometimes curl the ends of their abdomens upwards in much the same way as a scorpion does - but there is no venom loaded sting to this tail.
Males are much smaller and lack the extended abdomen.
Link to ventral shot: www.flickr.com/photos/112623317@N03/52689669561/in/datepo...
Season's greetings to one and all. Wishing you all peace, joy and good health.
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This mix of roots and small branches met along the way, in the shadows, around the Petit Mont-Cenis area (France) reminded me the Facehugger of the legendary film Alien by Ridley Scott... so, being myself a sci-fi fan, it looked as a nice catch, something not to be missed.
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I didn't realize Alien 5 was a thing (or for that matter another Predator movie, but that's not until 2018 apparently) until Grantmasters started promoting it, so I decided to revisit the genera as my latest temporary obsession.
As such, this is just a small quick build to go with my Alien figure I built a while back. I was working to get a minifigure scaled Facehugger, and I think I largely succeeded--its a bit big, but it works. Incidentally, if anyone wants to build one, it's just six hands (it works with 4 actually, too), a Gollum arm, a jumper plate, and a 1x1 tooth plate (pointed towards the tail--which you cannot see at this angle).
I'd like to make tons of these, but like my Alien (black gun legs) I ended up using "rare" pieces, which makes it expensive to army build--didn't realize tan hands were hard to come by. Someone else get on that!
This House Martin was collecting mud for its nest but I noticed it had a blood-sucking parasitic Louse Fly attached to it. The fly is in the Hippoboscidae family, which means horse herder. This species of Louse Fly is probably Crataerina hirundinis which is specially adapted for living on the backs of House Martins, and occasionally Sand Martins and Swallows. They have a flattened, aerodynamic body and hooked feet so they don't become detached as the bird flies. Their wings are vestigial, resembling long spikes, so they cannot fly, but walk readily between House Martin nests. Their mouthparts are adapted for piercing the bird's skin and sucking blood. One study showed that female flies drink 4.8mg of blood per day as they need to produce young (they give birth to well-developed larvae) while males only drink 3.5mg per day. And as bird ringers know if you try to squish one it just dusts itself off and carries on. And one final thought, if you look closely it has a resemblance to the facehugger in the 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenomorph#/media/File:Alien-The_Fac...
The custom of sending a postcard from where one is visiting seems to have died out. Certainly, it's increasingly difficult to buy a postcard. Gone are the days of searching through the carousel that displays the card for just the right one. Gone is the tiny income for photographers who created them. So now we snap a picture, just like everyone else's, cluttering up the landscape as we do so, and 'flick it' to Facehugger or whatever.
Gone also is the discipline required to write something interesting and legible in the small space allowed on the back of the card, and the foresight to have brought an address book that has all the necessary details. Aunty Maud gets her annual card, even if we never actually visit her, for instance. I could go on.
For now, feel free to print this and post it. You don't need to be in Morecambe and nobody will know otherwise. Holidaying at Great Barrier Reef? St Kitts? Ulan Bator? Worry not - I've got you covered - send greetings from Morecambe and bring friends and rellies sunshine, wherever they are!
"Last word. I can't lie to you about your chances, but ... you have my sympathies."
('Ash' by NECA / 40th anniversary edition)
Diorama by RK
Don't get too close to those facehugger eggs, you know what happens.
Just some of the many wonders created by the freezing winters of Alberta. If you'd like to join me for some winter photography please take a look at my Banff Photography Workshop in March 201`7 www.fototripper.com/store/banff-photography-workshop/
Shot with the Sony A7RII and Zeiss Batis 18mm lens.
Thanks for looking
Gavin Hardcastle - Fototripper
This is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.
I don't think I've posted anything more than one figure in a picture in easily 4 years - but these figures just could not be separated.
So this is Hicks from Aliens, as well as an Alien Warrior and a Facehugger. All of these are sets by G-Bricks (AKA The very talented R.Goff1) Really happy with how these turned out!
It was awesome painting these up, and I'll chat a bit more about the details here when I do tomorrow's Showcase Saturday episode for my YouTube.
I hope you guys like the figures! Thank you again to Richard to the M41A Assault Rifle - I was glad to have it for this figure of Hicks!
Happy Easter! Well, it's sort of Easter themed - there are eggs... oh, ok, I'll try to do a better Easter pic :P
But don't worry, Ensign Parker will be ok, she survived being stuck in a turbo-lift with Captain Kirk for a couple of hours so a drooling alien will be child's play!
Macro of a Daisy flower head.
Reminds me of the scene from the movie Alien, where the facehuggers come out of the egg/pod.
So this isn't exactly a pure Lego build but I just like the minimates facehugger so much that I wanted to make this. The reason this facehugger is the best, in my opinion, is that you can get a minifig head and their hair beneath it :)
This scene is based on the autodoc from the movie combined with the original artwork of Ron Cobb.
Size comparison.
The egg is based on Missing Brick's design and the Facehugger on Tim Lydy's design (although this one is on a 1x1 plate).
Squalid Bear: What happened to that beautiful creature?
Dusty: The sea monkey? The facehugger ate the whole family. Then he choked on a crown -- a real disaster.
Squalid Bear: Oh, no!
Dusty: Easy come, easy go. Next time we can fish where you live.
Squalid Bear: So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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There is a lot of interesting stuff about Bizet (please do explore). He was only 25 when he wrote Les pêcheurs de perles (‘The Pearl Fishers’) in 1863.
"One of its librettists, Eugène Cormon, admitted after the premiere that he had burdened Bizet with an ours infâme (‘squalid bear’) of a libretto."
It was this quote that gave me the idea for this shot and the new name for my bear fetish.
Dusty doesn't sing, but his friend is a bear-itone.
"You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility."
('Alien' by NECA / "Big Chap" Ultimate Edition)
Diorama by RK
Scene from James Cameron's 1986 movie 'Aliens'.
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Hicks: Oh, it likes you Burke. Looks like love at first sight to me.
Bishop: Two are alive. The rest are dead. "Removed surgically before embryo implantation. Subject Marachuk J, died during procedure"... They killed him getting it off.
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Thanks to Matthias for the custom Aliens minifigs: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=57638&st=50
Here's a still of the movie scene this is based on:
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The choir house of the cathedral in Aachen, Germany - H.R. Giger must've drawn some inspiration from this place ;)
Das Chorhaus des Aachener Doms - H.R. Giger hat hier sicherlich einige Inspiration gefunden ;)
Scene from James Cameron's 1986 movie 'Aliens'.
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Ripley and Newt awake to find two facehuggers have been released into their locked sleeping quarters. Ripley tries to escape by smashing the reinforced glass window while the security camera looks on impassively...
There are multiple uses that can be derived from basic designs/concepts/ideas. Depending on which movie scene you'd like to recreate, the prototype cryonic chamber can be adapted to it.
The top of the chamber is the generic Lego Dimensions base for those who asked about it.
Luke journeyed to uncharted planet LV-426, to see if it might be a good home for a new Rebel Base. He hasn’t been heard from since...
So today I received Richard's Predator. And I must honestly say that this is one of the best, if not the best Predator sculpt I've ever seen. I decided to show him off in this picture without the mask because the sculpted head is absolutely stunning.
I thought it'd be nice to display my own Predator from a while ago next to his, alongside Richard's line of figures from the Alien Franchise (Namely, the Alien and Facehugger).
If you haven't picked one up yet, do so now before he runs out, it's absolutely worth the money both as a collectible and as a challenge to paint.
Got up super early today to head to Bognor Regis for a sunrise, guess what, it was a slight let down, anyway walking along the beach I spotted this cuttlefish, i used my ultra wide to get this shot with my camera inches from the water, after taking the shot I stood up my tripod then turned around to get a closer look at the cuttlefish, then boom my camera fell lens first into the sand, my lee filter ring snapped off and my lee 0.6 ND Grad got very wet and sandy.
I washed off the filter in the seawater, only option at the time but it was fine, now ive only got to glue the ring adaptor back together and all should be fine, lesson learned :-)
This figure was a blast to paint. It uses mainly one color, just a metallic grey, a bit darker though. I tried my best to get the accuracy down. The sculpt is done by Richard Goff. As well as Facehugger. I’m really proud of how these turned out. Hope you guys like them as well
In this vignette, a space marine is fighting off an alien creature that has snuck aboard his ship and has no respect for personal space. This is my entry for the week 3 challenge of Greeble de Mayo 2021 in which you had to incorporate a minifig. Not only does it feature a minifig as a character, but also 4 whole droid minifigs and other minifig parts as part of the greebling, all within an 8x8x8 space.
A parasitic creature discovered on an off-world mining colony. It possesses the remarkable ability to interface with and control both nervous systems of organic creatures and the mainframes of machines.
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My half of the collab for BZP's BBCC 75 with Marko.