Okay here we go then peeps. I'll post only a couple pics first to make sure youz can see them.

These two pics are the first scenes seen inside the Nostromo at the film's opening.

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Very cool!

What scale are they?

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You made it Welcome aboard, man!
Pics work fine - More please! :p

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Ah I'm glad you can see them! They're not to any specific scale Steve, the passageways are about four inches high.

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The same two passageways, slightly redressed, seen later in the movie where Parker & Brett moan about how the others never come down to where the real work is. I added small boxes to the ceiling to represent the overhead monitors. I tried to copy the passageway machinery as closely as I could.

When they turn the corner, the second passageway end is deliberately obscured by the actors, so to make them look like different passageways, I removed the end, added a false wall and changed the angled piece at the intersection of the two passageways.

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Very impressive!

Thanks guys, I'll post more pics over the weekend.

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Wow very cool, what material have you used to construct them ?

The bases are chipboard left over from something my Dad had made at the time. The walls are a mixture of hardboard, cardboard, wooden dowling and Plastruct tubing and pillars. The machinery is made of shaped wooden blocks, bits & pieces of model kits and small bits of old electrical equipment. It's all basically just glued together with Bostick. The machines are all removable so they can be put in different positions to represent different passageways.

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wow man. Just wow. You said these are 30 years old?!?!??!

Outstanding! Just screaming for green screening in some steam, Marines, and xenos!

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Thanks for your kind words Mr bigbisont and Mr Pelikan. Yes they really were made 30 years ago! I built them in the early 80s when all I had to go on were repeated viewings of old VHS tapes with their less-than-perfect pausing capability. Since then I've acquired The Book of Alien by Scanlon & Gross, and the Movie Novel by Richard Anobile which is basically stills taken from the movie and put into book form with captions. These have allowed me to modify some sections to make them more closely resemble the movie.

This is my version of the main airlock, with a still from the movie as a comparison. As I'm sure many of you have come to realise by now, the galley set was redressed several times, including to represent both main and shuttle airlocks.

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These are absolutely incredible! I'm completely gobsmacked by the intricate level of detail you've got on these.

Cheers Mr Hallums, that's very kind.

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Sorry for the delay in posting more pics, I've been busy doing things for my disabled parents. Anyway, these next pics show part of A deck that was redressed as B Deck for the sequence during the early search for the small alien after Kane had 'given birth'.

You might recognise this as the junction on A Deck between the passageways from the bridge, galley and the start of the passageway that leads to the infirmary. I added a screenshot to illustrate what I was trying to reproduce.

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This passageway is where Brett, Parker & Ripley search for the alien and where Ripley moans about 12 module not being fixed. This is the same passageway in the very first pic, photographed from the opposite end as they did in the movie.

They go into a small storage room where they find the tracker has picked up the cat, and this is my version of that room, with screenshots as a comparison.

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When Brett goes off chasing the cat he goes into what has been termed the 'garage' where various vehicles are stored. This is my version of that room. I've since made new ceiling pillars which are much closer to the movie, but I haven't yet taken any more pics of it, so these pics from last year show the original pillars, which were old Pentel biro tubes.

The large tracked vehicle (which is best viewed after dark when the ambient light is lower as I tried to replicate the lighting levels of the movie as well as just the sets themselves) is an old Dinky Leopard tank which just happened to be about the right size. I removed the original tracks and added redundant ones from my space shuttle launch platform, simply glued on upside down as they resemble the tracks on the movie vehicle.

The detailing on the entrance to the landing leg room was drawn on after repeated viewings of that part of the movie. I only had enough material to make a single landing leg. It's much too small but better than nothing I guess.

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When Parker, Lambert and Ripley are the only ones left alive, they decide to escape in the shuttle. Parker & Lambert go down to C Deck to collect air bottles. They go into another large chamber which is presumably supposed to be a different one to where Brett went chasing the cat, as some of the props were repositioned. The camera moves to follow them across the room, so I took three pics to try & replicate this, and I've included screenshots as a reference.

Again in the movie this sequence was quite dark, so my pics are by neccesity also dark, and are best viewed after dusk, when ambient light levels are lower.

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After collecting the air bottles, Parker & Lambert cross into a smaller storage room to check the bottles. This is where they are killed by the alien, and is the same set where they tried to snare the cat in the net earlier in the movie, redressed for this scene. I therefore used the same model, but photted it from a different angle. The double hatchway and the large room are visible in the background.

I'd made the large silver tubes years ago, which were to represent gaseous storage tanks. As this sequence in the movie is quite dark, you can't really see much of the set, and I didn't want the model to appear empty so I used 'artistic licence'. Since photographing it last year, I've modified the right-hand wall of this model to make it resemble more closely the movie set now images are available on the internet, and the last pic shows a recent test pic and a screenshot for comparison.

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After finding Parker & Lambert dead, Ripley goes to set the self-destruct sequence in the engine control room. This was the infirmary set heavily-redressed to represent C Deck.

I built it as a separate model, including the passageway outside, and I used the passageway as a set extension in several other shots.

The silver structure seen through the 'windows' are presumably intended to be some kind of fluid pumping tanks. I originally used Humbrol paint tins, and I recently made a much better representation of this using old photocopier paper rollers. These tanks also appear in the final screenshot.

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The first pic here was to represent Ripley running through the darkened C Deck passageways in her haste to reach the shuttle. I used passageway sections to make the longest one I could, and deliberately photographed in in low light.

She finally escapes in the shuttlecraft. Again the former galley set was redressed for this sequence, and I made the wall sections removable. I removed the outer airlock hatch and made a representation of the outer shuttle hatch. I'm currently making a new short passageway section leading up to the airlock chamber which more closely resembles the lower pic.

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I put together some model sections to see what effects I could create, and using bits of passageway 'machinery' I hadn't used elsewhere, or which were laregly unseen. There are lots of gaps as these sections were never intended to be put together, but I hope you like them.

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And lastly, the models seen with all the ceilings off to reveal their true extent.

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Wow! They're great!

Fantastic work! And considering the age of them, that's amazing! I can only imagine
what they'd look like now if you remade them with access to high res screencaps from
DVD or Bluray!

Again, thanks for sharing, and well done!

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