r/LV426 • • 2d ago

Art / Creations Finally finished my son’s “driller gun! (Aliens inspired)

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Background: My 8yo son likes to come up with fictional “weapon” designs (just toys), and asks me to build them for him. In the past I’ve made the toys out of wood. We got a 3d printer last year and I taught myself to use it. My son came up and asked me (about 4 months ago) to make him a “driller gun”, and gave me a drawing of what he wanted. So I taught myself how to design things in Blender, and have finally completed the driller gun! There’s a master switch that turns everything on. Then each button turns on a laser sight, a core warming light, then the core instead, and then gives power to the motors. There is speed control and also a trigger to turn on the drill. It was so much work (I’ll probably keep adding tweaks to it, but it was so cool to do all of this.


r/LV426 • • 7d ago

Art / Creations XenomorphTimeline.com's biggest update yet: a new look and 239 new entries

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Hello there!

About a year ago, I launched https://xenomorphtimeline.com/ as an attempt to build a chronological timeline of both canon and non canon media, and the love it got earned it a spot in this sub's sidebar 😄

I've just pushed its biggest update yet: a new look and 239 new entries, mostly Predator and legacy media, but also the most recent stuff we got from the Disney era.

As usual I'm open to feedback, especially if there's a timeline or canon error somewhere.

Enjoy :-)


r/LV426 • • 6h ago

Movies / TV Series But first, coffee….. 🥚

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425 Upvotes

I bet that first cup after that long sleep was great.


r/LV426 • • 6h ago

Art / Creations The perfect organism!

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r/LV426 • • 20h ago

Art / Creations A funky lil guy

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655 Upvotes

r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Figurines / Merchandise Dang, ruined a surprise 🤦🏼‍♂️

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891 Upvotes

It was supposed to be a stocking stuffer for Christmas, but I left it out and it was seen.

I'm still taking it and saving it for Christmas, but will share with you all now 😎


r/LV426 • • 15h ago

Movies / TV Series PSA: Alien screenings in Boston this month

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Alien is being screened at the Omni theater at the Boston Museum of Science on October 23rd and 24th.

Alien Directors cut is also being screened at Coolidge Corner on the 26th.

Personal opinion: Coolidge is rad as hell and I love to support them. Alien on the Omni screen could be incredibly cool though. I’ve never seen a regular format movie on that screen though, so I’m not sure what that’s going to be like.


r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Art / Creations Got this as a gift from my brother its one of my favorite things

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Figured yall would appreciate this its awesome and I love it


r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Figurines / Merchandise Trick or Treat 🎃

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237 Upvotes

Spirit Halloween Xeno ready for the season! We plan on keeping him as a permanent fixture on our porch and decorating him throughout the year.

Location: Alaska


r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Games I got to play Alien Isolation 2 on the weekend, ama

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r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Discussion / Question I figured out how fast FTL in-universe: 14.51c

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In Prometheus, at 8 minutes and 0 seconds, the text says that they are 3.27 x 10^14 kilometers from earth. That's 34.56 light years. When Vickers is doing push-ups outside her cryopod, David tells her at 13 minutes and 18 seconds that it has been 2 years, 4 months, and 18 days. That's 2.3826 years. So they covered 34.56 light years in 2.3826 years. That means they were going 14.51 times the speed of light. That would be the best available tech as of 2.3826 years before December 21, 2093, which is the date shown at the 8-minute mark. Best available tech because that's Peter Weyland's ship, so it stands to reason they used the best, newest FTL tech that they could because he was close to death and so needed to get there as fast as possible. I have not accounted for time dilation or whatever other hard scifi gobbledygook that complicates the problem.


r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Discussion / Question Just finished 3D printing this! An Alien Bone Throne - Biomech Phone Stand / Holder Giger Style

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Just finished 3D printing this!
In the depth of cold space, facing whatever horror lurks in the dark, your communication device will remain safe within the skeletal grip of this alien throne.
Inspired by the dark, biomechanical art of H.R. Giger and classic sci-fi lore, this phone stand is crafted from intricate weaves of bone, vertebrae, and organic conduits.
It serves not only as a fully functional desk accessory but also as a striking display piece for sci-fi fans and collectors.

Printed it using a 0.4mm nozzle on 0.20mm layer, on Biqu Orange Frostbite plate with Bambulab Carbon Black matte PLA on X2D.

ModelPage


r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Art / Creations Xenomorph

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r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Discussion / Question Is it weird that I don't really like the exaggerated concept of the xenomorph taking on traits from their hosts

54 Upvotes

Now I've always loved xenomorphs and everything about them, but what bothers me is how people exaggerat the xenomorph taking on traits from their hosts. I've always felt hesitant with this as I feel people exaggerat it way to much when I feel It should be treated how it was in alien 3, where the runner alien only became more aggressive and agile as well as becoming a quadrupled xenomorph. I still love xenomorphs and they're biology but with them gaining traits from their hosts to a exaggerated lever bothers me as I also feel it shouldn't be traits from each animal but from animals that are similar. An example being quadrupeds produce runners and any aquatic life produces a aquaticmorph that isn't exaggerated but looks similar to a drone with aquatic features.


r/LV426 • • 12h ago

Art / Creations The astronaut Making Off

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Hi everyone! If you liked my prevoius post with this painted sculpt with chest buster and very dead astronaut, maybe You'll want to see some behind the scenes :) A friend of mine just released a video with entire painting process. I must say I really liked that one!


r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Discussion / Question Influences

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I just read the 1953 short story "Junkyard" by Clifford D. Simak, which inspired the derelict ship.

When it came to influences for Alien, Dan O' Bannon happily said that "I didn't steal from anybody, I stole from everybody."

Which leads me to wonder how many times someone pointed out an element that he borrowed from some old science fiction short story, and O' Bannon just said "Sure, that sounds about right. I forgot the name of the story I stole that part from, but that's probably it."


r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Discussion / Question Alien Covenant Discovery

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Recently watched Alien Covenant again and couldn't help but notice after the alien is crushed, David disguised as Walter patches up the crew mate the crew member asks "how is it?" And David replies "It's fine" He looks ever so slightly pissed off and struggles to contain his anger at his creature being crushed. Walter throughout the entire film never shows even the slightest emotion, that little flicker of emotion I wonder if it was intentional.


r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Art / Creations A new xenos threat

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ALIEN x Warhammer 40k. Working on a astartes xenomorph and a few others.


r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Figurines / Merchandise 3D Alien Backpack Purse Thing

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121 Upvotes

I wonder what Giger would think of this.


r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Discussion / Question Re: "Why did they choose this body part?” …Umm...Everyone is wrong?

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Re: Alien Earth S1 E3 ending: why the lungs?
I saw the post and was shocked that virtually all replies say it’s because the alien embryo is always in the lungs as shown by the ship data (Alien Earth) or canon from Alien or Aliens.
“They enter through the trachea”
“The facehuggers provide oxygen”
“They cough up blood…therefore, lungs.”
“The eggs detect breathing"
“Lungs, trachea, heart, liver or intestines? Lungs b/c of the research files. Kirsch downloaded all of it.”
"Makes sense. The tube the face hugger sticks in the mouth goes into the lungs. The robot [Kirsch] probably got the idea / info from the files copied from the ship. Remember it has the pic of the tube down someone's throat"

What? The scene literally spells it out?

In Alien Earth, season 1, episode 2 (3:08-3:18) they show on the background screen AND Joe reads out loud that “he had some kind of foreign body lining his GI tract. I looked up the scene because I was trying to understand why the imagery looked so…inappropriate…and what part of the GI tract it was physically supposed to resemble because it just looks like what it’s symbolically supposed to represent. Either way, clearly states GI tract so genuinely confused why everyone is certain they gestate in the lungs?

Am I missing something, or is everyone else?

Also, what part of the GI tract is that scene supposed to represent? (because it sure looks like something else!)


r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Art / Creations Xenomorph art

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r/LV426 • • 2d ago

Art / Creations Yet another 3d printed pulse rifle

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So when I got my first 3d printer a few years ago one of the first things I printed was a replica of the pulse rifle. Always wanted one, and there's an excellent and free model by the awesome Props3D with a removable magazine, a working trigger and pump and even a working cocking handle. Unfortunately over time it started cracking and warping. I patched it up and repainted it as best I could but I was less happy with it, so when I recently got a new printed I built a new one. Same Props3D model, slightly personalized with a tacticool grip, a xenomorph charm, an slightly edited magazine with a caseless bullet and a grenade with working button at the top. All free models I found online.

...Then I also did some improvements to the old pulse rifle. So I'll probably keep it. Meaning I have 2 pulse rifles. And the Alien Romulus smart pulse rifle I printed a while back. So 3 pulse rifles. Yeah.


r/LV426 • • 1d ago

Discussion / Question Which Alien comics have that retro-futuristic aesthetic in its art?

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I remember being really disappointed by the art when I read the Bloodlines comic. Aside from the fact that I personally find Salvador Larroca’s art, and his technique of tracing figures, quite ugly, I was let down because it didn't capture the saga's retro-futuristic style. There is a scene featuring a car with the sleekest design I’ve ever seen, with LED lights and rounded surfaces.

That’s why I’m asking if there are any comics that feature that retro-futuristic aesthetic, much like the Isolation in video game did. The only one that comes to mind is Dead Orbit (though that had a more cluttered, caricatured style), so I’m wondering, are there comics that truly maintain that retro-futuristic aesthetic?


r/LV426 • • 2d ago

Art / Creations Ripley/Sigourney Weaver caricature by Maria Picassó Piquer

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390 Upvotes

r/LV426 • • 2d ago

Movies / TV Series Nostromo Crew Profiles: The Full Dossier From Aliens

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