Hector, 1200BC - by Steve Moore

[Guy]

My good friend, Steve Moore, from Shawnee, Oklahoma stopped by today and brought 2 busts with him. The 1st is Young Miniature's Hector and in a separate post will be the Spartan Warrior with shield.

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[Joe Hudson]

Looks really nice.

Joe

 

[Steve]

Nice work Stevie.

 

[vergilius]

very nice bust!
steve may drop by any time!

 

[KeithP]

Beauty.

I like all of it... purple cloth, armor, the shield device. Nice!

Keith

 

[tonydawe]

Hi Guy,

Please let your mate Steve know that he's done a terrific job on this bust, and I'll be using it as reference as I paint my own Hector.

Cheers

 

[unknown01]

Your work is a wonderful bust model.
An expression with the color of the metal is original and beautiful.
The flesh color is also beautiful.
The design of the shield is also wonderful.
I have a figure of this manufacturer, too.
Everything is a wonderful product, isn't it?

 

[Mark S]

Great painting.
Everything on it is beautifully done.
Love the shield.

 

[megroot]

everything is sayed. Great work

marc

 

[bonehead]

Nice paint job!

But there is something that is bugging me and I would like to see if it is just me or not. I have never liked yelling busts. They always look stilted and little weird to me: all that pent up energy and no arms or body language to carry the emotion through. I can almost imagine they are yelling because they just discovered that their body is missing.......

Does this bother anybody else?

Mike

 

[slaj]

Nice paintjob.

Mike, you have a point. It's as if there is something missing. Though I'm not a big fan of busts with arms, your point makes sense.

Stephen Mallia

 

[John Bowery]

Steve,
A really nice bust and I am not into busts, unless they are warm?????
Cheers,
John

 

[Bad91Fellow]

very nice! i like the "black" armor!

 

[tonydawe]

Mike,

I like the extra animation and character that you can paint into a bust of someone yelling. I've done several busts over the years and most of them have a rather passive, almost blank expression that doesn't reveal much of the character or personality of the subject.

I specifically chose to buy two recent busts (Leonidas from 300 and Hector) because the face was animated with the mouth open. Apart from the challenge of painting the inside of the mouth, I liked the fact that the bust showed the character in an aggressive pose - in keeping with how they appeared in the movies.

I don't think these busts are lacking anything by not having arms - if anything the lack of arms forces the painter to focus more intently on the eyes and the facial features to convey the true character of the person being depicted.


Cheers

 

[bonehead]

Mike,

I like the extra animation and character that you can paint into a bust of someone yelling. I've done several busts over the years and most of them have a rather passive, almost blank expression that doesn't reveal much of the character or personality of the subject.

I don't think these busts are lacking anything by not having arms - if anything the lack of arms forces the painter to focus more intently on the eyes and the facial features to convey the true character of the person being depicted.


Cheers

Hello Tony,

I think you missed my point. The look of this bust, and others like it disturbs me because they look stilted and incomplete. You cannot paint "extra animation and character" into a sculpture. It is either there in the sculpture, or it isn't. The paint can, at best, emphasize what the sculptor has given you to work with.

I agree that many busts are not very expressive. But the extreme tension of a yelling person seems oddly constrained by a figure without arms or body language of any kind - such as this bust for example. Here we have an apparently very angry or agressive person without even a raised shoulder or strain of the body to express such extreme tension portrayed by the face. He looks like an angry guy in a straight jacket! But the sculptor or painter have not portrayed a jacket to finish that thought.

The constricted torso almost seems a betrayal of the expressiveness of the face. I am not saying that all such busts need arms or what have you. I am saying that THIS bust and others like it look very odd to me. They are incomplete expressions. I suppose the real challenge to a sculptor would be to figure out how to complete the anger expressed in the face through the limited tableau of a bust. I am sure it could be done! For instance, a raised shoulder or extremely twisted or contorted torso would provide release for that facial tension. This could be accomplished without arms.

But to my mind this particular bust, no matter how superbly rendered, looks odd. It falls short of this goal.......

Cheers!!

Mike

 

[JGREEN]

Mike,

That's an insightful point and you've expressed it eloquently. I agree.

Jason

 

[captnenglish]

Mike you have a point, that I never gave any thought to previously, but I think the expression works in the case of this bust. That having been said, the painter of this bust did a superb job IMHO.

 

[georges64]

Hello Guy and... Steve ,

Your friend is very talentuous, nicely painted!

georges.

 

[Christos]

Very nice work!!!
One of the most agressive busts that I really like is the celt from La meridiana miniatures.
http://www.meridianaitalia.com/prodotti.asp?a_id=73&c_id=1