Alien: Creating the Nostromo

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Alien: Nostromo

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Alien: The Art Rooms of LA

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Ron Cobb

a) The Crunch

b) Chris Foss inspiration for Nostromo

c) The coming of Bill Pearson

d) Simon Deering hops aboard

e) Bill Pearson's miniature Nostromo prototype

f) Jon Sorensen's arrival 

g) Change in scale

h) Adding a new cockpit 

i) Four foot long Nostromo

j) Steve Jolliffe of Tangerine Dream joins the wiggeters

k) Yellow Nostromo

k) Engine room towers become thrusters

m) Probes from the refinery transplanted elsewhere

n) Finishing touches to the Nostromo

o) Nostromo with Close Encounters Of Third Kind mothership lighting

p) Belly lights of the Nostromo