DA'DTOU-DI got her hair did. Yes, it's another SilentSurfer Machiko custom.

[prefused]

Makes no sense?! It makes no sense for it not to make sense. Predators see in infrared no matter what. The way their vision is portrayed has never been consistant though.

"We're fairly certain this being can see in only one spectrum of light--infrared. He hunts by seeing our heat." -Peter Keyes in Predator 2.

The bio just filters the light for them and allows them to see in other spectrums. On a personal note, I think the infrared would be cool as just a Bio feature, but it makes no sense the rest of the time, especially when their prized trophies would not give off any heat, but are clearly there to be admired by other Preds. It's a flaw in the character design from the beginning.

For Machiko to have one eye modified to pick up heat makes total sense. Yes, her Bio should do that for her too, but she won't always have it on. How many hunts have we seen where the Pred has the Bio on at the end, right?

Come to think of it though, this vision would not work for Alien hunting anyway. The Aliens don't show up on infrared.

"Switch to infrared, people." -Sgt. Apone in Aliens
"Maybe they don't show up infrared at all." -Cpl. Dietrich in Aliens just before the Alien she just looked right at drops down and grabs her as she turns away.

Even Scar had to switch modes to see them in AVP, which means he shouldn't have been able to clearly see the Queen at the end of the movie.

If they do end up remaking Predator, I hope they rethink the vision problems.

first, i gotta say those hair mods look awesome and you have way more courage with $140 figures than i ever will.

but, as for fixing the vision issues... i don't see why a predator sequel/remake should even acknowledge the avp inconsistencies.
it's not like those movies were all that considerate of the originals. so, i say just pretend they didn't happen. it's the only way to make a decent movie.

 

[SilentSurfer]

I can easily agree that those movies can be forgotten. I do like them from a comic universe POV though. However, I really really do prefer the vision interpretation in the AVP movies. The vision, though interesting in the 80's, always bothered me because this is supposed to be the ultimate humter in the univers, yet it appears to have vision no better than a python. That makes no sense. And again I bring up the trophy thing.

 

[polonium]

Awesome work you did!! For an expensive figure like this, I won't go that far.

 

[SilentSurfer]

You asked for it, so I gave it to you. Pre-Pred Machiko with Pre-Pred eyeball. I also had to redo the hair clip because I didn't have a proper mixture of putty and the sculpt never hardened, so I had to scrape it off. I went with less is more, and made a wooden-looking version of her original hair piece.

 

[Devil_666]

I like it. Good job man.

 

[capthowdy]

I like!!! Seriously good work!

 

[Deckard]

You asked for it, so I gave it to you. Pre-Pred Machiko with Pre-Pred eyeball. I also had to redo the hair clip because I didn't have a proper mixture of putty and the sculpt never hardened, so I had to scrape it off. I went with less is more, and made a wooden-looking version of her original hair piece.

Wow, I just got this sculpt for a Catwoman custom, what you've done here is certainly impressive. The hair and eye are great.

 

[Cajunsith]

You asked for it, so I gave it to you. Pre-Pred Machiko with Pre-Pred eyeball. I also had to redo the hair clip because I didn't have a proper mixture of putty and the sculpt never hardened, so I had to scrape it off. I went with less is more, and made a wooden-looking version of her original hair piece.

Bouncin ****ies Batman, you matched the eyes perfectly!! Now I want my Machiko to have normal eyes!!!