Leif Beckmann's Space Jockey chair reference maquette - images and talkthrough

[url=http://www.phoxim.de/leif_beckmann_space_jockey/leif_beckmann_space_jockey.html]http://www.phoxim.de/leif_beckmann_space_jockey/leif_beckmann_space_jockey.html[/url] As Procter mentioned in his text regarding the chair design, this is an article and images of Beckmann's maqutte of the chair Translation: [i]I have documented the emergence times of my "small" model construction project, interested in all that for something like that. I am a huge fan of the "Alien" films, especially the first, the bizarre design of HR Giger has not released me and I started to collect everything of background material and "making of" to the movies. I was particularly impressed by the Space Jockey, but the model kit to which it was made, I found absolutely awful bad. I have everything I could get only collected at images that were then scanned and drawn using a graphics program and printed to the right size, then I cut out the pieces and used as a template for modeling. It consists almost entirely of clay and gypsum (EFA plastic) and a couple of PVC pipes. Many parts of which I needed more I've only once modeled, molded with silicone and cast in plaster. I do not know how much the model weighed at the end but it was extremely difficult, the telescope would not take the floor and the body needed anyway können.Ich three Space Jockey models and so I then gradually from the bottom plate, the body and the telescope, as well as all the small parts molded silicone molds and then spread relatively thin layer of plaster. This plaster shell, I then assembled and filled with foam urethane foam model with the hollow and made stable. Gravity models with 25 lbs but still. Everything has been painted, primed with acrylic paint and an airbrush and done with brushes, sponges and cloths, the aging effect. With latex may produce more milk would be the effect of rotten skin, as they did in the movie, but unfortunately the stuff is not aging. Well, so then tinkering time just four years at such a model, but it was not important to me just a bit of fast-track to applaud what the film model more or less similar. It should be as perfect as it gets to be missing and no detail too small. This thing has a few mistakes but the model was too complicated and often one noticed only on the error if it is already too late. Preparation of the forms of the telescope: the half mold is ready, the model inserted halfway into the white silicone mold which is held by a plaster jacket as formwork. The finished silicone molds with plaster paneling. That way, the dimensions: 75 inches high, 88 cm long and 59 cm of soil has (or has become the base plate, I could not build full-size, that would be just too big and too expensive) in diameter. Such a model project is a great thing when you can end up saying "I'm all by myself", but it costs time, money and nerve![/i]