Cool build! Not screen accurate ofc but thats fun, hey can be different models in the Alien universe. I saw there are small videoplayera with built in screens on amazon that can fit in the viewfinder and that can play a videoloop of the motiontracking.
The props from the 1986 Aliens movie are some of our favorite in film. We had a blast building our own inspired version of the classic Aliens Motion Tracker. Have any of you built your own custom props or replicas from films? If so comment and provide links to them below, we would love to see them!!!
PURROS Leukos LOL!!! We LOVE Aliens, and we have many more project ideas centered around this franchise that we plan on rolling out. Thanks for watching!!!
I think the thing you found in your grandfather's shed. I think it might have been an old school hedge clipper. Like from the late 70s early 80s. But either way AWESOME build man! I've been a special effects artist for about 15 years. I even watch your videos to get some ideas and learn new things. Love your work man.
William Hollifield hey there! Thank you very much, you may be right in with the hedge clipper, great call! Thank you for the compliment on the effects. We keep trying to raise the bar around here. Appreciate you watching!
God hearing it occasionally go off in alien isolation never fails to make me stand absolutely still in fear and contemplate whether I check the tracker or not
Hi! I found this video through the Replica Prop Forum and just want to say great job! I think the Tracker looks great and this video is really well done. If I had any criticism's it would be that the narration felt a bit stiff or rehearsed. Judging by the intro (great) I think the videos would benefit from you talking as you are building a bit more, it would allow you to be more relaxed and passionate about what you are doing at that exact moment. Then come back and fill in the blanks later, and don't worry about cutaways to stuff like Bob Ross! I think your camerawork is gorgeous and perfectly shows everything you are doing clearly! As for the content itself, it's great and fascinating seeing props come together like this from random junk you had lying around! The little touches you made really brought the whole thing together. You gained a subscriber today, keep up the good work!
Red Harris first of all thank you very much for watching. It means the world to us. I really appreciate the feedback you provided as well. Our passion is building crazy projects, but the rest is new to us and there is definitely a learning curve. Your comment is certainly something I’ve been looking for. Thank you for taking the time to write it. I’m glad you liked the project and thank you for subscribing!
Aw crap, I think I threw away one of those drills when I had to move from the house after the divorce, as it was not working, and I was short on space. ;-( Wish I had known then what i know now.
90% sure the tool you salvaged is an old hedge trimmer... the blade looked like it an psychotic cross between a reciprocating electric carving knife and a double edged bow saw blade.
You can absolutely purchase a slide viewer. There are several different manufactures of these both vintage and current models you can still find. Here is a link of a Google Search that I did, and you will see at the top there are slide viewers priced as little as $22. www.google.com/search?q=LED+lighted+illuminated+slide+viewer&oq=LED+lighted+illuminated+slide+viewer&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.6203j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 I hope this helps with your question.
I used the top screen of a broken Nintendo DS for the display. Now....should finding a broken DS be tricky, use self laminating sheets. They have 2 parts. 1.Thin tape-like film 2. More harder plastic. Dollar store carries them.
DwayneHicks426 oh YES!!! That’s a great idea. Thank you. The one I made for this fell apart pretty easily as of late, so I’d love to put something like your recommendation in place. Thanks for the tip and for watching!!!
@@TheSmugglersRoom one more thing, I added a bike light that had a strobing feature. It blinked a lil too fast. They sell battery powered strobe lights at halloween and party stores. The strobe speed can be adjusted manually with a crank. The housing you have should be bigger enough to install or re-engineer.
Interesting. So you don't think of a 3D printer as another tool huh? The goal here wasn't to just "print" the entire project, but to use found parts and tools at our disposal to create a cool prop. The 3D printer in our shop is similar to other tools for us. Try not to limit your thinking, you'll find that there are so many ways to create!
great build. I like that you made it the way the film makers would have. with stuff that was sitting around and works.
Wayne Bakken thank you! That was the goal. Glad you liked it!
I suspect that used to be a hedge trimmer. Missing the blade, of coarse.
I think you are correct. Thanks for sharing
Mate, I love your prop builds! As well as a Star Wars fan Aliens is one of my favourite films! I’m glad I found your channel!
Steven Miele thank you so much, we really appreciate you watching and glad you are enjoying our builds!
Great build Brian... it's so kool.
I'm glad you like it
Hudsoooon!
🤣🤣🤣
Great project. What colour did you paint the tracker? Was it the mythical Brown Bess?
Awesome job
Cool build! Not screen accurate ofc but thats fun, hey can be different models in the Alien universe.
I saw there are small videoplayera with built in screens on amazon that can fit in the viewfinder and that can play a videoloop of the motiontracking.
Nice drill with a watersprinklertimer glued to it 😂
Love this project, Alien fanboy here!
Greetings from Munich, Tom.
The props from the 1986 Aliens movie are some of our favorite in film. We had a blast building our own inspired version of the classic Aliens Motion Tracker. Have any of you built your own custom props or replicas from films? If so comment and provide links to them below, we would love to see them!!!
The Smugglers Room so awesome! We’d better get back ‘cause it’ll be dark soon and they mostly come at night. Mostly.
Joshua Trujillo thanks man, “we’re not going to last 17 hours, those things are going to come in here like they did before . . . “
Cmon Brian your just spoiling us now! First Star Wars now Aliens!!!!!!! Can you get anymore awesome, I’m looking forward to finding out.
PURROS Leukos LOL!!! We LOVE Aliens, and we have many more project ideas centered around this franchise that we plan on rolling out. Thanks for watching!!!
It looks like proper military colonial marine hardware 👍🏽👍🏽
I think the thing you found in your grandfather's shed. I think it might have been an old school hedge clipper. Like from the late 70s early 80s. But either way AWESOME build man! I've been a special effects artist for about 15 years. I even watch your videos to get some ideas and learn new things. Love your work man.
William Hollifield hey there! Thank you very much, you may be right in with the hedge clipper, great call! Thank you for the compliment on the effects. We keep trying to raise the bar around here. Appreciate you watching!
For the screen you could try an office laminator
Another great idea! Much appreciated Mike!
God hearing it occasionally go off in alien isolation never fails to make me stand absolutely still in fear and contemplate whether I check the tracker or not
LOL, definitely!
Your builds are fantastic, get a resin 3d printer my friend. Great detail, no sanding or filling...
Thank you! I actually have a Resin printer now, best investment for 3D printing EVER!!!
With the right bit of programming on an old smartphone with a motion sensor, and that prop could be a working prototype
Just took my wife's old Dyson upright apart ready for a motion tracker build...yes I got her a new hoover
you are very talented my friend!
Eric Ortiz Hey Man!!! Thanks so much, really appreciate it!
“Apone, where are your people, anybody in D block?”
“Uh, that’s a negative, we are all in operations.”
So glad I found your account through #nosmallcreator - so up my street. Love it 👌🏼
I am glad you found us too Andy, Thanks for watching!
Hi! I found this video through the Replica Prop Forum and just want to say great job! I think the Tracker looks great and this video is really well done. If I had any criticism's it would be that the narration felt a bit stiff or rehearsed. Judging by the intro (great) I think the videos would benefit from you talking as you are building a bit more, it would allow you to be more relaxed and passionate about what you are doing at that exact moment. Then come back and fill in the blanks later, and don't worry about cutaways to stuff like Bob Ross! I think your camerawork is gorgeous and perfectly shows everything you are doing clearly!
As for the content itself, it's great and fascinating seeing props come together like this from random junk you had lying around! The little touches you made really brought the whole thing together. You gained a subscriber today, keep up the good work!
Red Harris first of all thank you very much for watching. It means the world to us. I really appreciate the feedback you provided as well.
Our passion is building crazy projects, but the rest is new to us and there is definitely a learning curve. Your comment is certainly something I’ve been looking for. Thank you for taking the time to write it.
I’m glad you liked the project and thank you for subscribing!
Anytime! Keep up the good work!
looks like an old hedge trimmer body
After all this time, we are thinking that too. Thanks for watching!
That tool is a reciprocating saw. Sort of a vintage Sawzall.
That makes total sense now! Thank you!
Would you mind to make anything from the „Moon 44“- Universe?
That’s not a bad idea at all, anything specific?
The Smugglers Room Not really. But it’s a quite forgotten movie, just like Space: Above and Beyond
Looks like a hedge sheerer
You and Adam Savage are brothers from other mothers
Thank you, he is a great inspiration!
Aw crap, I think I threw away one of those drills when I had to move from the house after the divorce, as it was not working, and I was short on space. ;-(
Wish I had known then what i know now.
Oh bummer!
90% sure the tool you salvaged is an old hedge trimmer... the blade looked like it an psychotic cross between a reciprocating electric carving knife and a double edged bow saw blade.
You are 100% correct on the hedge trimmer. A few months back that was confirmed, but you nailed it!
I'm 50+... I USED it! Lol.. great videos... keep up the good works...
Hedge trimmer
what if don't have a 3d printer
You can absolutely purchase a slide viewer. There are several different manufactures of these both vintage and current models you can still find. Here is a link of a Google Search that I did, and you will see at the top there are slide viewers priced as little as $22.
www.google.com/search?q=LED+lighted+illuminated+slide+viewer&oq=LED+lighted+illuminated+slide+viewer&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.6203j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I hope this helps with your question.
:)
I used the top screen of a broken Nintendo DS for the display.
Now....should finding a broken DS be tricky, use self laminating sheets. They have 2 parts.
1.Thin tape-like film
2. More harder plastic.
Dollar store carries them.
DwayneHicks426 oh YES!!! That’s a great idea. Thank you. The one I made for this fell apart pretty easily as of late, so I’d love to put something like your recommendation in place. Thanks for the tip and for watching!!!
@@TheSmugglersRoom one more thing, I added a bike light that had a strobing feature. It blinked a lil too fast.
They sell battery powered strobe lights at halloween and party stores.
The strobe speed can be adjusted manually with a crank.
The housing you have should be bigger enough to install or re-engineer.
+DwayneHicks426 that’s also a fantastic addition. Sounds like I need to spend some time upgrading this bad boy. Thanks again!
@@TheSmugglersRoom
Any time.
There's a Tony Stark inside all of us.
DwayneHicks426 absolutely, well said!
In space no one can hear you clean. (yuk yuk)
🤣🤣🤣
Micro changes...in air density...
You lost me at 3D printed. If you're using 3D printed parts just print the whole thing. Job done.
Interesting. So you don't think of a 3D printer as another tool huh? The goal here wasn't to just "print" the entire project, but to use found parts and tools at our disposal to create a cool prop. The 3D printer in our shop is similar to other tools for us. Try not to limit your thinking, you'll find that there are so many ways to create!
Spends hours cleaning the inside of the part....spends hours aging and dirtifying same part on the outside...
Great project. What colour did you paint the tracker? Was it the mythical Brown Bess?