Alien Covenant -The perfect "model of a franchise."

"Model of a franchise."

With a release date of May 12th the crew @paperthincomics decided to talk to a true fan of the "Alien" franchise, and as it happens, a crafts man in his own right.

Andy Rowlands

Andy Rowlands. A fan of the "Alien" franchise has built him self a reputation in the model building community, as well as a space ship.

On seeing this revelation of his work, a model maker building no other than the freighter "Nostromo" from the 1979 original "Alien." The crew @paperthincomics wanted to share with you his story, and a lot more.

"My interest stems from watching the original Alien movie in the early 1980's on TV, and being very impressed with the design of the interior sets of the "Nostromo" spacecraft. I decided to see if I could build a model of one section of the lower engineering deck, and once that was finished, I carried on for about a year, ending up with seven separate sections that can be butted up to each other in various ways to represent different parts of the ship."

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"I tried photographing it with a then-current film camera, but having to set the focus meant much of what I photted was badly out of focus, so the models spent the next 30 years sat in a wardrobe, until the advent of digital cameras with their large depth of field."

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"I added some pics on a Facebook modelling page, and the responses were very favourable, & I was invited to show them at an event at the National Space Centre in Leicester in 2015. Since then, I've been invited to show them at three other events, with equally favourable comments, which has very much surprised me, as I built them purely for my own interest, with no intention that anyone else would ever see them."

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"With only that wobbly pausing of VHS cassettes to aid me, as this was well before the internet, some of the dimensions are wrong. In particular the hatchways are too wide, but as the idea is to see them in low light like in the movie, most of the errors are effectively hidden."

"What are your thoughts to the new trailer?"

" The new trailer looks interesting, but you can't really tell what a movie will be like until you see it. I just hope it will be easier to understand than Prometheus."

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