Here a few quick figures I did from "Aliens".

Ripley w/ leather jacket and Carter Burke:





For Ripley I just used the Hot Toys Ripley, popped out her arm joints, and added Indiana Jones arms. The posts on the Indy arms popped right in to the torso after removing the black arm posts. The main part of her jacket is from a POTF2 Ceremony Luke figure. It was actually the first vest I was making for Burke, but it fell off of my spoon, and sat in the RIT dye too long while I was trying to fish it out. Oddly it actually matches the sleeves better than the original Indy jacket which was a lot lighter than the sleeves. The hands are from a "Capture of Tantive IV" Rebel Fleet Trooper figure, to match the flesh tone on her head.

Burke is RIT dyed Ripley legs and waist, Indiana Jones torso and arms (from the deluxe Ark pack), POTF2 Ceremony Luke "vest" lightly dyed to make it more tan than yellow, and a POTJ Jedi Knight Obi Wan head, modded to remove the braid and little pony tail, and repainted hair.

Ripley and Burke with my WIP Apone and Frost:



So far for Apone I started with the Hot Toys Apone figure and I have "shaved" off the lower part of his goatee, leaving only his mustache, as in the movie. Then I moved his holster higher on his web gear, also reflecting his look in the film. The only real thing left for him, is to find suitable binoculars for him.

Frost also started off as a Hot Toys Apone figure. He got a total "shave" and surprisingly looks very close to Ricco Ross, the actor who played Frost. Then he was given a satchel from an Indiana Jones figure to replicate the pouch he wore in the movie, that ended up with the squad's magazines in it.

For Frost I still have to add his armor markings.

Alien Queen:











I really liked aspects of both the old Kenner Queen figure, from the Hive playset, and the newer McFarlane Queen from the second series of AVP figures. So I combined them.
It has the crest, arms, and legs from the Kenner figure, which all better represent the way the Queen looked in "Aliens".
The things the McFarlane figure really had going for it was the detail on it's body, and face, and it's nicely detailed and "bendy" tail.

The McFarlane figures legs are on a ball joint so they just popped right off. The Kenner legs are on a post. The post is part of the torso, so they pop right off too. After popping off the legs, I found that they are a perfect fit to the ball joints on the McFarlane figure! So the new figure retains ball jointed hips.

After removing the McFarlane figures head, the post that held the head came off too. I filled in the rubbery neck "sleeve", which was hollow. I then attached the McFarlane "face" and then added the Kenner crest.

For the arms I cut off the McFarlane figure's arms and then dremeled notches in the Kenner figure's arms. They then fit right on to the existing shoulder joint on the torso. The arms don't have the ball joint now that the McFarlane figure had, but they do still have the same up and down motion that the Kenner figure had. Just no forward a back motion.

When it was all said and done the new figure is more articulated than the Kenner figure, but not quite as articulated as the McFarlane figure.

-No real head or neck joint.
-Ball jointed chest.
-Ball jointed hips.
-Swivel shoulders.
-Bendy tail.

I also did a dry brushing of dark grey on the Kenner parts, so they matched the McFarlane parts, except the crest that I wanted to keep a semi-gloss black.
With just the naked eye, and pictures without the flash, the parts go very well together and the crest has a slight shine to it.

Unfortunately when using the flash for pictures, the grey shows WAY more prominently than it does otherwise:



Thanks for looking!


edited for typos...

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awesome

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Very cool work, i like them all.

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So much 'win', so little 'mail them to me, asap!'.

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Thanks guys!

I decided to go ahead and do the drybrushing on the crest to match it all up. I like it a little better too. I tried to make it just a shade darker than the rest of the body's drybrushing to still keep a slight difference between two different types of surfaces.










Here is a pretty good shot, to give you a better idea of how the drybrushing looks without the flash from the camera, and the color:

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That work on the Queen is great. That is what we should have gotten from production.

I can't honestly say I can see what you have done.

So...that means these are wins!

For anyone not familiar with the parts here are some pictures of the figures I used to make the Queen.

Kenner Queen:



I prefer this Queen's crest as it matches the Queen from Aliens, the McFarlane Queen's crest has spikes on it, and more closely resembles the Queen from AVP, which makes sense because she was part of the AVP line, series 2.
The Kenner crest also stands up more, as the Queen's crest did in "Aliens". She could lay it back like a cat's ears, but she kept it up more, and I prefer that look.

I also prefer the Kenner Queen's arms, hands, and legs which all match the "Aliens" Queen design perfectly, and once more, the McFarlane Queen's arms, hands, and legs match more with the AVP version, again as they should.


McFarlane Queen:



Though I didn't really care so much for this figures crest, her face is far superior to the old Kenner Queen's face. I also really like the crisp clean detail on her torso, and the bendy tail is pretty much perfect.

Aside from her hands not being accurate for the "Aliens" Queen that I was making, I didn't really care for the way the arms were posed either. She does have ball shoulders, but the way the arms are molded still only allows for a few poses that even look decent.


Another shot of the final Item:




Thanks again for looking and all of your comments and input!

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