Aliens USCM Squad build

[Dorgmal Snow]

well me old mate Feroze I love Aliens and we have always wanted to get some of the HT ones.... but with prices that are through the roof and stuff I decided to have a bash at making a few for us.....


I started by actually buying a complete marine... I was really lucky and got a hicks for a good price... I was also given a Apone head by a good mate....

then I bought some of the alien killer sets for the wraps and uniforms...

 

[Dorgmal Snow]

Feroze bought a Vasquez and I bought a Drake... I also was given a Darren Carnell Ripley head which is ace.... and another really good friend sorted me out with Hudson and Hicks head.....

 

[Dorgmal Snow]

Next up I started making the moulds for all the armour.... and chuff in nurse there is a lot of parts to the set!!!!

I also managed to get a complete set stripped down which was great....


Casting it is a real tough one... as the armour is so thin the moulds have to be warmed and then the resin poured and then warmed whilst it is cuing as some parts are so small they do not create enough heat to cure on there own.. There is also a very high miscast rate to... but thats cool as we want our marines pretty damaged....

 

[Dorgmal Snow]

once we had some good casts and knew it was gonna work... I just got cracking...

I am off to Feroze on Monday to do some work for him.... but come the evening...... we have to start piecing this lot together..... its gonna drive me insane.......

Will take pics as soon as we start

 

[Hollis DZC]

You are driving me insane with the possibility of making a custom Colonial Marine squad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[vialli]

Wow, very good project friend!! I can not wait to see the final job with your USCM squad.

Keep us informed.

 

[Fives]

those are looking great Mark! looking forward to seeing the finished squad.

 

[Agent47]

Yeah, that's some pretty crazy molding and casting work there. Great stuff. I have the whole set of these guys sitting in a box in the closet. Need to get to them at some point.

 

[Cheungkinmen]

looking forward to this project~

 

[Jediguy]

Great work Mark!!

 

[karamazov80]

Damn. That looks like a lot of work!

 

[Angry Kal-El]

This is really fun to watch! Keeping posting all the details please!

 

[Dorgmal Snow]

ow I will keep taking shots. I will post pics of Feroze and me pulling our hair out tomorrow night tring to piece together a couple of sets.... What am I on about... I don't have any hair! I can tell you this.... There will be much cussing they are so fiddley.

 

[feroze13]

Right I have arrived at ferozes and fixed his plumbing and now hi-jacked his mac

so with a few jobs done... dinner being cooked and we are ready for this evenings work.....

 

[feroze13]

not much work done... Feroze has been gasin to his neighbour... so Rav has stepped in.. and she is way more use than him any way....

Rav and I have only managed to do two shins.........Mark.

 

[feroze13]

That is so out of order... she was chewing my ear off


here we are workin.... honest guv

 

[Wanderer]

I love it! Its like the dream team link up here!
Almost like Pacino and De niro coming together! EPIC

 

[feroze13]

USMC mofo's is coming on like gangbusters.

 

[Dorgmal Snow]

Well we are calling it a night. We have just got the shoulder piece to do but it's so chuffin fiddley... But I am lovin it.

Quick note on the Hudson and hicks heads are from my friend mighty figure master Les and I feel so privalaged to have them I can not wait to paint them up

 

[Hollis DZC]

Well we are calling it a night. We have just got the shoulder piece to do but it's so chuffin fiddley... But I am lovin it.

Quick note on the Hudson and hicks heads are from my friend mighty figure master Les and I feel so privalaged to have them I can not wait to paint them up

Looking fine, damn fine!!

And on the shoulder piece, I've built 7 sets of1/1 USCM armor and I HATE doing the shoulders!!!! Getting them to fit right is a beast. Getting them to line up, putting the holes in the webbing, making sure the elastic coming up from the back of the back plate isn't too damn tight that you can't raise your arms (guess how I figured out that could happen??)