Space Jockey....finished!

I'm fairly happy with the end result. I shot these images on my workbench lit withmy desk lamp. I blurred any off-shoot areas in photoshop. I think the colours I ended up using are kinda close to the film.

 

In fact, it was quite hard to find any good reference for colour, particularly for the Jockey's base. It's funny... I used to be a big fan of  the spacesuits in Alien, having seen a load of photo reference of them in closeup they come off looking a bit crappy. I guess it's a testament to the brilliant way Ridley Scott shot the film that these things all look as good as they did.

 

The little figures were TINY! I made good use of my magnifier painting them. Anyway, I'm glad it's done....

.....NEXT!....

Space Jockey new pics

Well, I'm pretty happy with the paint job on the jockey...It might need a bit more colour variation here and there. The next task is to assemble/paint the small figures. This is certainly going to be very detailed work.

In space no one can hear you putty....

Well it's taken a while, but I've finally got around to putting the Space Jockey together.


It has gone fairly well so far...despite the fact there were gaps in some key areas. Nothing a generous batch of Milliput couldn't fix. I really am falling in love with that stuff. It's very easy to use and, man, is it ever strong.


I'm still not really sure I like the whole vinyl kit thing. It seems to take a lot of fiddling around to get things to fit and be symmetrical.