Completed: Alien Queen Reservoir: Project AVP

[Malatory]

Originally Posted by specialsteve

dude your like fuc#ing magiver over there man if i give you some duct tape, super glue, a straw, some sculpey and of course a oatmeal cookie
i would get something unbelievable.

seriously thats amazing dude, by chance are you an ex-sculpter? lol jw

how do you make those so presice at such small sizes are you really like an artist or is there a special secret? TELL ME! i must know the secret to your Jedi ways lol that seriously looks like you put many hours of work into im assuming it took you like maybe 6-10 hours between shaping it baking it and painting it. am i at all close? or did you already say maybe ill take a cremarics class next year never thought it would be useful til i started looking at your work.

Dude ... this is not the jedi you were looking for ...

you should read the rest of the site besides just the forums and you would have your answers young padwan.

[Crimson Sky]

Pretty much almost finished. I need to keep building the little cradle for the queen; It's basically made from scrap model parts from cars and trucks, and also small acrylic findings. I also need to put the alien's teeth in!

The compression fittings were mounted on that clear plexi disk by first tapping the hole then sealing them in permanently with two-part resin--same as epoxy but much stronger and water-clear.

I'm also installing a couple of LEDs inside this resevoir for effect

Once the alien/cradle is painted I'll coat the entire model in clear casting resin an mount it inside the res permanently.

[Rachel]

Wait a second... your giving it teeth too? And LEDs... Wow. What color where you thinking? You leave me speechless...

[Whisp]

How big is that?

Also do I get that clay stuff from a model store or something?

[Crimson Sky]

Originally Posted by Rachel

Wait a second... your giving it teeth too? And LEDs... Wow. What color where you thinking? You leave me speechless...

I have Yellow, Blue, Red, White--its up to you, I was gonna ask. I was thinking either yellow or blue--whats your thoughts? The light will be inside the capsule on that cradle.

[Rachel]

It's up to you they both sound good. I'm putting UV green dye in the water so they're both close colors.

[Crimson Sky]

Eeewewe...UV Green--oh well..I guess white then.

[Rachel]

Are you saying UV green is bad? I didn't think the UVs would shine good up there so the water in the res should look normal.

[Crimson Sky]

Hmm..I just hope its not too cloudy that it obscures the alien water feature completely---the UV stuff I've seen is fairly hard to see through.

[Rachel]

Well if it does that then I just wont use it. I could then get UV tubing.