The Dark Horse Aliens comics had a big impact on me growing up, I used to borrow them from the local library and read them religiously as a kid before buying them a few years later in my early teens. They were the sequel to Aliens before Alien 3 came out in 1992 and continued the story of Hicks, Newt and Ripley.

Once Alien 3 came out where those characters were killed off-screen, they renamed Newt to Billie and Hicks to Wilkes.
The story of Aliens continued with the eventually take over and evacuation of Earth. It was a great story especially when I was younder learning to draw.
One of the designs that stuck out to me at the time was ‘The American’, a ship that appeared over some of the story arcs. I did have a go at designing it back in 2006 when starting out in 3D but decided to give it another go a few decades later.

Details are pretty scarce, and many parts changed slightly between artists, so I cherry picked the best ideas as well as adding in a few things non-cannon such as the hypersleep pods.