232: Face-hugger

My second favorite sci-fi film of all time (Alien) brought new forms of terror to the screen:

In a well tried formula, a nasty makes itself on board a spaceship firmly clamped to the face of an inquisitive explorer (John Hurt), implanting an egg in the host’s tummy before scaring everyone and dropping dead. The newly hatched nasty then systematically, and with great suspense, eats everyone – you get that. This prototype xenomorph is all the more terifying because, based on Geiger illustrations, organically modelled after a sinister hand.

I like that there was always a life-cycle implicit in the Alien films, and that there was an innate social order amongst the xenmporphs also.

This model was a little trickey to fold – I had to nurse the copy paper as at many junctures it looked like it would disintegrate – I managed the fold without any paper fatigue I am proud to say and it is a worthy proto alien to compliment the adult I folded earlier in the year

Insectoid, reptilian, with gripsey fingers for walking, prehensile tail to wrap around the neck of the victim, off lung sacks for gas exchange, a well thought out model indeed (even if the instruction annotations were bewildering – thankfully I am confident enough to improvise when I cannot make head nor tail of what is supposed to go where)..

10 thoughts on “232: Face-hugger

  1. i would realy like some more detailed instructions becouse i have tried to follow but……………… ya better instructions would be nice

  2. is this the face hugger from tanteidan 4, do you reckon you could make a tutorial on youtube ive been pulling my hair out tryin to fold this for a while now

      1. i made mine from home made tissue foil doesnt look to bad needs a longer tail i think. Im also tryin to fold the nautius by manuel sirgo at the moment havnt had much luck finishing it you should give it a go .

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