Repainted Alien toy

[planetmut]

I got this 7" alien at Walmart for $10. He was sprayed with black car primer, then overbrushed with a mix of Vallejo Chocolate Brown and Black. That was followed by a lighter overbrush of Chocolate Brown, Flat Earth and Black before a final drybrush of Flat Earth. I gave him two coats of homemade black wash (craft paint mixed with matte medium, flow improver and water) and his skull got four coats of Citadel Ardcoat to make it shine. The drool is small lengths of fishing line with superglue dribbled down them. They're held on with more superglue and gloss Mod Podge. There are a couple of spots on his ankles that need touching up, but on the whole I'm well happy with him. I'm working on the egg and facehugger.

 

 

 

 

 

[Darcstaar]

Amazing.  So did this come as a model kit, or a “paint your own figure?”  

[planetmut]

5 minutes ago, Darcstaar said:

Amazing.  So did this come as a model kit, or a “paint your own figure?”  

 

Thanks! It's a kid's toy, the bottom pic is what it originally looked like. There's also a warrior from Aliens that was out of stock, and the dog-alien from Alien 3 which I stupidly didn't buy at the time and is also now out of stock. For $10 I decided to grab it just to repaint it.

[BlazingTornado]

52 minutes ago, Darcstaar said:

Amazing.  So did this come as a model kit, or a “paint your own figure?”  

It's an action figure produced by Lanard, they picked up the Alien license recently and put out some neat affordable sets but all the xenomorphs are painted in bright colors completely unlike their movie colors.

[planetmut]

29 minutes ago, BlazingTornado said:

It's an action figure produced by Lanard, they picked up the Alien license recently and put out some neat affordable sets but all the xenomorphs are painted in bright colors completely unlike their movie colors.

 

Yeah, I googled them and they do some decent Alien figures but they all come in crap colours. I'd love to get hold of the 12" tall Alien Queen and repaint it.

[Chaoswolf]

Great work !!

[Glitterwolf]

Great job!

[SotF]

I'd seen a few of those a while back and was tempted by them...

 

Almost looks like there ought to be the bright metallic neons of the old Kenner line as a highlight...

[Rigel]

Good stuff! I have a large xenomorph action figure I plan to use as a Space Kaiju at some point. Hooray for repurposing!