Wow love the claustrophobic vibes.

Frame almost fully installed.


Bridge ceiling going in. We were never able to put the Bridge fully together in the warehouse, because the tight space the Bridge fits into was small enough already that we didn't want to lose any more space to framework. So the ceiling and right wall attach directly onto the building.


Open bulkheads ready to be distributed along the corridor.

Same, now installed.


Wall pallets attached to the frame. At the top of the photo, above the bulkheads, you can see the round HVAC pipes that will be visible through the ceiling of the corridor.

Home sweet home!

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Love those wall pallets.

This has to be one of the most stunning projects i've ever seen

Wonderful attention to detail and I look forward to future updates.

The door at the end of the corridor, now fully attached to the frame. No perspex in the windows yet though.

We're really happy with how our MDF & epoxy approach to replicating the vacuum formed plastic turned out, now that it's finished and weathered.


Lots of floor pallets to be installed.


Vestibule display case frame going in. The smaller floor pallets under them are in, and similarly along the rest of the corridor. But the central floor pallets won't go in for a while, and when they do, they'll be covered immediately to prevent unintended weathering during the rest of the install process.


Some of the ceiling in place. The code-required fire suppression system even added some nice organic shapes, although it'll mostly be hidden in the end. Mostly.


The airlock door at the other end, stripped of all of its finer detail for ease of installation. If you remember, the right hand side of it here slides left, over the rest of the door, to allow entry into the corridor.

Turns out I had a shot of it in the open state as well.

Wonderful! I can't wait to see what you guys are doing with the monitors under the floor grating!

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Bridge wall going into place.


Vestibule cabinets going in, and lighting above.


EDS levers and push button.


More of the ceiling panels going in, alarms mounted.


Wall monitors mounted as well.



The monitor under the floor grate is an experiment. If you remember from the design, there's an acid scar hole in the ceiling near the airlock, and a corresponding one below it in the floor grate. They're the red circles here.

Here's a recent photo of the ceiling acid hole. There'll eventually be cabling spilling out of it, which you can see back in the warehouse photos on page 4. Also the first shot of one of our semiotic standards, which you've probably been wondering about the absence of. More photos of them soon.
The monitor will be going under the acid hole in the floor below. The idea was that, if we could hide a monitor, perhaps we could enable a moment like the one in Aliens, where the camera looks down through the floor acid hole and sees that the acid has burned through multiple floors below. I have an artist friend who's signed up to model and render the view for it. It's possible the lack of parallax will make it unconvincing, but hey, we figured it was worth a try.

Continues to increase in awesomeness!



Could possibly try using that infinity mirror trick, but with the two-way mirror at the bottom, with the screen under that ... dunno if it'd work (but I'm curious to try it out myself).

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Floor pallets all installed, and covered with temporary protection.


A photo from the other end, with the vertical pillars from the engineering deck installed. Lots of other smaller pieces in as well - large pipes in the corners, greebles and details getting wired in. Some of the larger metal cables are aesthetic, but several of them turned out to be useful for running the wiring we needed for the lighting & interactivity. This photo also shows off the maintenance lighting. For code and maintenance reasons, we needed to be able to brightly light up the space when necessary. So we hid these long lights up in the ceiling on either side of the central ceiling pallet.

Here's a closeup of the back side of the vertical pillars, showing some of the detail & weathering. In addition to visuals, we got some usage out of these - the short, diagonal vents are the place where the smoke/fog machine emits its vapor.


Another shot down the corridor a little bit later, with installation further along. Ceiling in the vestibule is in, upholstery on the front & sides of the wall & vestibule consoles, semiotic standards in place throughout, etc.


Couldn't resist taking another shot in the same place, but with the corridor lights off. Light at the end is from the room beyond, and the smaller mechanical room to the left. Really excited by the way the light hits all the shapes in the corridor, and it'll only get more interesting when the floor pallets are uncovered.


Main Door at the end of the hallway all finished, with semiotic standards and weathered plexiglass. There's a furred rim around it to help seal it when closed, to prevent light & sound leakage into the corridor from the mechanical room beyond.

Looks like a real ship!

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Wow! So good!

More of the smaller details arriving now. Lots of cables.


Connecting to the wall and vestibule consoles.


Update on the overall installation progress. Much of the detail is in now, but there's still more to go. In particular, the interactive elements are still to be installed - the monitor plates, and the EDS. We are incredibly happy with how the weathering has turned out. If you go back a page in the thread, there are photos from this same viewpoint, from back when the unweathered corridor was still in the warehouse. They have more dramatic lighting (which will arrive soon in the installation), but even it doesn't hide the fact that all the surfaces were way too clean to be the Nostromo.


This photo is pretty dark, so you might have to fullscreen it. It's a shot of the area above the chair in the Bridge, to the left of the starfield. The wall between the Bridge and the corridor is made up of the wall pallets and another metal panel with a triangular motif. You can see that on the left in this photo. We wanted that wall to allow light to filter through it, and this is a photo showing it in the Bridge. Really happy with how it hits the wall details. When it's all done there'll be light in the Bridge from the starfield, even when the Bridge interior lights are off. Looking forward to seeing what that all looks like.

Love it so much!

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If it were me, I would see about renting this area out to fan film productions and so forth.
I would imagine there would be those that are interested. Excellent work, and some skilled labor in the assembly.

Late to the party, but I am blown away. Such a great job!

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Looking back at the airlock door at the entrance to the corridor.


Double doors on the side of the corridor, opposite the vestibule display case.


Entrance door to the Bridge.


Side door that leads into the mechanical room for the building. As we hoped, the industrial shapes inside look pretty good when seen through the plexiglass.


EDS case awaiting the internal mechanism.


This is largely the end of physical installation, so now we just have lighting and interactivity to do.

I look forward to the final tour and I am very happy for you to see your dream come into reality.

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Still working on lighting & programming. Here are a couple of in-progress teasers.

And a pic from the vestibule. Other than wires dangling from the ceiling acid scar, I think this is everything in. Looking forward to removing the floor cover.

Just keep building! Add a kitchen, bedroom, TV room... live there...


I would.

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This is just crazy insane. In the best way possible.
To much to compliment on, but one of them is that the star field really came out nice.
It really looks like a large amount of space, outside the window.

Speaking of "living there", curious if this is a permanent fixture, inside the shop you're building it in?
I'm guessing yes, considering the mechanical room is incorporated within the design.
Or is there a plan to actually relocate this elsewhere?

Great work.

Thanks for the kind words!

To answer your questions, it's a permanent fixture inside a building, with no plans to relocate it elsewhere. It was specifically designed to fit into a somewhat weirdly shaped volume inside the building, underneath a sloped staircase that's above it. To be honest, during development I didn't really think about anyone wanting to visit it. In retrospect, that was probably a mistake, especially now that it has a couple of props from the movie in it. I hate the idea of people not being able to see those. So I'm going to think a bit about ways to solve that.

Progress wise, we're still wiring everything up, and mucking about with lighting. Now that the corridor is fully enclosed, we can finally evaluate the lighting properly. We've already added some extra lights in some places, so that things aren't so dark that you can't make out details. As an alternative to that extra light, I do want to try placing some in-fiction flashlights outside the entrance so people can enter it with one in their hand - exploring the corridor with a cellphone camera is already a pretty awesome feeling, and really helps you appreciate all the weathering detail.

Photo of us trying out different lighting colors behind the wall pallets.


Wiring up the vestibule consoles & video screens. All the lights respond in some way to the buttons, switches & dials. Since we're talking about lighting, it's worth noting that when it's lit up brightly like this, it's because we have the service lights on, which are out-of-fiction lights hidden in the corridor for when we need plenty of light to work by. In this particular photo, we also have the in-fiction vestibule lights on as well.

Amazing as always!

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Insanely impressive!

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