Well I used McFarlane figures and I think I'm gonna order that Queen figure you're using but idk because I want this one to be different from the others, hence my first idea was no Queen. Shoot, I'll probably even get that Queen even if I don't use it for the film, it's pretty cool enough anyway. What I did with the figures is simple. I call it "figuremation". I just posed them in front of the camera. Ex. My hand holding the lower body section of an alien and moving it to create motion. I did the same thung with the preds, and I used pickles for the preds' blood, and for the xenos, I used a combination of mustard, water, and cooking oil. Cooking oil was employed for the slime. The fights were quite intense. In one scene "War Chamber", I used my brother's Predators. I accidentally ripped off one of their heads, and one of them got snapped in half. Hehe, he wasn't too happy. For a movie made with toys, it's very violent. There are a number of other effects I used, but I won't spoil them until the film is completed and shown, for a magician never reveals the secrets to his tricks. All of these techniques are quite simple, and may seem corny, but they work effectively and believably.
About the Hive.......Dave isn't usually online, so it may take a while for me to get a reply.
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