Hi to all

[Jay851]

Hi

hope you are all well.

Recently started up on the Lego again. Loved it as a kid, then with my kids, now just loving it as I find it very therapeutic.

currently 80% through building the Cavegod Sandcrawler which has been challenging, and great.

Have started on the APC from one of my favourite films “ ALIENS’ but struggling to find any guides or places to get some colonial marine minifigs. If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would truly appreciate it.

Many thanks

Jay

 

[ShaydDeGrai]

Welcome!

While the "look" of colonial marines from "Aliens" might be a bit to close to depictions of modern warfare (which TLG avoids), customizing mini-figures is its own sub-culture of the Lego community and there are lot's of small web shops, Etsy sites, etc that might offer something close.  Alternately, you could customize your own with a few Lego compatible parts (guns, helmets, ammo vests, etc.) from a vendor like BrickArms (they don't do minifigs, they just do accessories in ABS to make customizing minifigs easier).  There are also companies like MiniFigs.me and EclipseGrafx that will do custom printing on genuine Lego parts if you want to really control the look and feel of the finished product.   I've never done business with any of these companies, so please consider this more of a pointer than an endorsement, but I've encountered them at conventions and know friends who speak well of them.

Good luck with your APC!

[Jay851]

Hi

Thanks for the welcome.

I have used minifigs.me and very happy to use them again. Also used brickmania for some of their colonial marine parts, and they are very good too. Very happy with the results so far.

Jay