The story of the film called for a lander craft for the aliens to travel between their orbiting mothership to the planet surface. As this film was a comedy the lander was designed to suspiciously resemble a Volkswagen Beetle. The basic body, jets and tail was modeled by another team member but I was detailed to complete the model and texture it to match the mothership. The final version has swing down wheels and also a popup turbocharged engine.

One other note, the background in this image and those of the mothership were created in Lightwave by me for use
in the space shots of the film.