Alien - Xenomorph

[ska_lives]

I started this after seeing the Figure Realm AvP custom contest listed by the other members of the Syndicate last year. I had had this idea for a bit, but seeing a contest with a deadline more or less pushed me to make it!. It was my first real heavy sculpt figure.

The recipe is:
Head: Cobra disguise flint with beret cut off (heavily sculpted over with sculpey) I used the flint head to keep the scale close to accurate.
Body: One of the 25th OG13 joe figures...grunt or some such (heavily sculpted over)
Arms: same
Hands: 2 different Marvel Universe hands a war machine and some other a phoenix maybe.
legs: Black 25th CC attached in reverse with feet spun around (heavily sculpted over)

Here are the early WIPS

Head:

More sculpt:

Painting:

Final:
NOTE: I am trying to get some better pics before I submit it to the contest.

New pics: well the lighting is now passable for me. Maybe Ill build a light box one day...

 

[Meddatron]

That is pretty damn awesome. Love the way you built it!

 

[Keenan]

I dig it. The only critique I have is that I would have liked him to be taller.

 

[Obi-Shinobi]

Taller, and turn his legs around to bend at the knee correctly. Unless you're going for a concept design.

 

[Meddatron]

I think he was going with this design but only with the one joint.

 

[MMorelock66]

Looks good! I'd recommend a light dry brush though.

 

[Obi-Shinobi]

I think he was going with this design but only with the one joint.

That's why I mentioned "concept". I saw the same pic you posted.

Without the additional limb/joint, it just looks kinda weird to me. I'd turn them around and make it a basic humanoid based Alien.

But... it's not my custom.

 

[xxxx]

Nice work.

 

[ska_lives]

Thanks

I know I thought about doing it up like the humanoid model, but opted not to out of the need to make it look less guy in suit and more alien life form. I kind of based it both off of the original alien and off of the playmates figures from the 90's, I think they had some of the more animalistic aliens and so I played off of those. Also I was thinking of the legs from the aliens in the arrival and figured it would work.