Pitch Black Marauder

Pitch Black was  a film that was released in 2000. It's about a commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a barren desert planet,  M6-117, full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur.It was the first time I was introduced to the character Riddick. But the star of this post is the animals they discover as the eclipse begins, and these guys come out of their underground hiding spot. In the movie they didn't have a name. The model was called a Marauder, but looking online, they were called a Bioraptors. So you can take your pick.

Being they only came out at night, and an uninhabited planet is very dark, you never really got a good look at these monsters.  Only by getting a look at different screen grabs do you get a full picture of what it looked like.

Only way after the fact did you get a look at behind the scenes pics of what it looked like - 

The model kit came in 8 pieces, of a gray resin. There were no bubbles, and some seam lines. But the odd part was that it was modeled almost directly after (from what I can tell)the concept art - 

The odd part being this weird ballerina stance. all the different poses you saw in the movie and they pick this? If it wasn't the only kit that I saw, I would have passed on this version.

But anyway the building begins. Lining the various parts up for pinning, I discovered that no matter which way I turned the head, I couldn't get it to line up with the neck. It was almost as if there was a piece of the neck missing - 

 No worries, with Aves, all problems can be solved. So there was some Aves work on the neck, wings, tail, where the legs  meet the body and then the ankles. what I decided to do was make the monster in flight around one of their "smokestack" exit tubes, so I cut the weird ankle joints and positioned them straight down and slightly backward - 

And with that, it was time to call this session for the day. Thanks for looking.