XM Studios Alien by Narin

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[clutch]

Unbalanced and ugly IMHO.

 

[Heavy Metal Spike]

Thanks for the pics GB.

Unusual for me (particularly since I'm such a huge fan of Narin's work) . . . I love the paint, but am not a fan of the sculpt.


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[Bullsquid]

A swing and a miss...

I like a lot of disparate aspects of this, but they do not come together to create one cohesive attractive piece. I like the alien design but not the pose, I like the derelict spaceship base but not the head-stomp, etc. And excluding the ship part of the base, I do not like the paint job at all. Blue tinted aliens would look good, brown tinted aliens would look good, but by having blue and brown together it looks like the aliens have been swimming through sewer sludge.

Easy pass.

 

[Monty]

Xm sure loves posing there statues very forward,and because of that I don’t buy there work for characters I want

 

[Vince_be]

love it, pose (just hope it won't lean over time), paint, incredible piece, crazy dio, details in the sculpt are totally insane! A true tribute to Giger ! Amazing job by Narin and XM

 

[spidermonkey]

I like this a lot personally. I have their Predator on order and I'm heavily considering this one also. Its definitely a different direction and I like that.

 

[INFECDEAD]

If they changed the alien in the base it would look better and be cheaper. If it's not changed I won't order it.

 

[Xeno Junkie]

Really a shame how this piece was executed. I’m a huge fan of Narin’s work. Though I feel like this is just not done well... at all. The sculpt is extremely unbalanced and looks like two Xenos fighting for the last slice of pizza rather than two swarming into an attack. The head stomp was an extremely odd choice. Hopefully Narin does more Xenos to make up for this one.

 

[Vince_be]

This is a true piece of art not a replica, not a copy of the design, just a piece of art from Narin, honest Giger tribute. Actually i love the pose, the wole dio really looks like a part of the hive and this pose makes totally sense to me as the warrior is the most stupid xeno behaving here like an ant. Show this piece of art some love

 

[MrSteerpike]

I worry about how it'll age. If it'll lean or break over time with all that forward leaning weight.

This one is not for me.

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[INFECDEAD]

This is a true piece of art not a replica, not a copy of the design, just a piece of art from Narin, honest Giger tribute. Actually i love the pose, the wole dio really looks like a part of the hive and this pose makes totally sense to me as the warrior is the most stupid xeno behaving here like an ant. Show this piece of art some love

Why would the alien be stupid if it is the perfect organism? I don't think of the alien as stupid as much as I do with how stupid the writers and directors are who depict it in the later sequels

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[MrSteerpike]

Why would the alien be stupid if it is the perfect organism? I don't think of the alien as stupid as much as I do with how stupid the writers and directors are who depict it in the later sequels

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At the risk of sending the conversation down a tangent inappropriate to a statue form, biological perfection and stupidity are two entirely unrelated things. Many insects for example have not evolved along any vector in tens of millions of years, having reached the biological pinacle of what the form and function nature has ascribed to them long ago. To put it another way, nature has not found it necessary to further evolve the form in that time: this is perfect.
Do these things step on each others heads and do other "stupid" things? Absolutely.
Stupidity is always a relative term and never objective. A sparrow may be stupid by our standards, but guess what, we make a pretty ***** stupid sparrow, so that works in both directions.
The adaptability and survival qualities of the creature have given it a tremendous range in environments that it can thrive within, irrespective in many cases of native species. Hence why Ash decided to call it the perfect organism - From a scientific perspective.
Or did he? Maybe he just liked it for personal reasons and dubbed it "perfect" completely arbitrarily.

Humans beat the hell out of eachother at a rate of millions a day across the globe, then murder, war, pollute our own environment to our own detriment; how stupid is that?

Not much of a yard stick.



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[INFECDEAD]

Unfortunately in film the creature has devolved from a stealthy, strategic threat into moronic psychotic fodder for the convenience of plot.
Coincidentally the films have gotten worse in my opinion in conjunction with that. There is no tension, stalking, risk, fear...
The Alien in Covenant legit went full retard on a excavator scoup and tried to maul it, which then crushed and killed it. There was no reason for it to attack it, it could of gone around it or over it... but noooooo that's a case of common sense and good writing being put aside for wanting an excavator scoup crushing death sequence and special effects.
The human characters in Prometheus were dumber than a box of spanners and they were all specialist scientists. The biologist literally petted and tried to make bff's the giant alien ***** cobra.
Just dumb writing and directing.
I see the Alien stomping on the other as diminishing the character and unnecessary.
But there's certainly a case in the films for it being that stupid.
Unfortunately those same films are stupid.
And so is this base

 

[MrSteerpike]

Hence why there are 2 good movies, a good attempt and everything is just trash. The characters (alien inclusive) are just as daft as the writers. Why should it rise above and be more than the sum of its parts? Lol.

Back to the piece, I'm not feeling like spending XM prices on something not canon for something in elitist about in the canon.

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[P.]

Unbalanced and ugly IMHO.

but that's the definition of everything labeled "Narin".

 

[Bullsquid]

In Aliens, the warriors ran headlong into the line of fire of two sentry turrets, killing scores of them. Then they cut the power ("How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!") The Alien is only as dumb or as smart as the script wants them to be. It's a moot point to argue.

 

[Python]

Hence why there are 2 good movies

Given the topic being discussed currently, can we assume that you are referring to Alien and Alien 3? Aliens was a great movie, but it was itself guilty of reducing the menacing and intelligent nature of the xenos, rendering them bug like monsters at times. Alien 3, love it or hate it, is a better Alien movie than Aliens is.

 

[MrSteerpike]

Given the topic being discussed currently, can we assume that you are referring to Alien and Alien 3? Aliens was a great movie, but it was itself guilty of reducing the menacing and intelligent nature of the xenos, rendering them bug like monsters at times. Alien 3, love it or hate it, is a better Alien movie than Aliens is.

I see what your saying but I don't think that it's necessarily all encompassing for the subject matter.

The creature in Alien and those in Aliens were not of the same caste so I think their behaviour patterns make sense.

The Warriors soul objective is to preserve the queen and thus the hive. They began as all out frontal attackers but over the course of the film adapted their strategy given their lack of success at removing the threat to the matriarch. This culminated with complex problem solving.

In Alien the creature is isolated from the collective so is charged with acting with its own self preservation in mind in order to establish a viable colony. If it behaved similar to the Aliens and got itself killed there would be no colony so this wasn't an option. Again, it's a different caste so it's behaviour is driven by a different series of biological imparatives.

Alien 3 was in a similar situation but seems to have blended the two a little more which to me doesn't make a lot of sense. Yes Ripley had the queen embryo inside of her but the runner didn't seem to be doing much to get a safe space sequestered for the start of the colony and was just killing people. (It's been a while since I saw the film so correct me if I'm missing something.) I know the colony theory isn't technically canon since it's only in the director's cut of Alien but the runner seems to fall somewhere between the first and second film in terms of how it behaved.

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