S1LVERBACK
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Another piece I'm working on is Bill Horans 'Wyatt Earp'.
I haven't seen this figure around much and hope I can make it into a nice vignette. To be quite honest I think it's a rather stiff, maybe even dull pose. His aim seems to be at 'rider hight' as it is rather high. The swirling frockcoat attempting fast drawing movement somehow does not compensate for the 'stiff as a board' stance.
My setting for this figure will be a saloon like surrounding as it is a good backdrop for the controversial role Wyatt Earp (and his brothers) played in The Wild West. Being a lawman in the city of Tombstone was a very conveniant occupation for maintaining the 'peace' at the gambling tables he and/or his brothers ran at the same time in the local saloon. My facts may be a bit off. It might have been one of his brothers (Virgil, Morgan or James) which held the tables. Maybe he ran gambling tables at a diffrent period to the time he was a lawman. I just like the controversy of those facts.
I will try to add movement by adding a saloonchair falling over behind his legs. As if he jumped up like a tightly coiled spring causing the chair to fall.
The saloon floor, already added in the picture below will contain playing cards on the floor, (some face up, some face down)and a fallen bottle of whisky as a reference to the gambling and drinking that went on in the saloon. Earp aiming at the balustrade above in a shootout that never took place (but who knows, might have). I can't restrain myself form adding a cliche to this vignette as one of the 'face up cards' will, ofcourse, be the Ace of Spades, which has been, and always will be a metaphore for death.
I haven't seen this figure around much and hope I can make it into a nice vignette. To be quite honest I think it's a rather stiff, maybe even dull pose. His aim seems to be at 'rider hight' as it is rather high. The swirling frockcoat attempting fast drawing movement somehow does not compensate for the 'stiff as a board' stance.
My setting for this figure will be a saloon like surrounding as it is a good backdrop for the controversial role Wyatt Earp (and his brothers) played in The Wild West. Being a lawman in the city of Tombstone was a very conveniant occupation for maintaining the 'peace' at the gambling tables he and/or his brothers ran at the same time in the local saloon. My facts may be a bit off. It might have been one of his brothers (Virgil, Morgan or James) which held the tables. Maybe he ran gambling tables at a diffrent period to the time he was a lawman. I just like the controversy of those facts.
I will try to add movement by adding a saloonchair falling over behind his legs. As if he jumped up like a tightly coiled spring causing the chair to fall.
The saloon floor, already added in the picture below will contain playing cards on the floor, (some face up, some face down)and a fallen bottle of whisky as a reference to the gambling and drinking that went on in the saloon. Earp aiming at the balustrade above in a shootout that never took place (but who knows, might have). I can't restrain myself form adding a cliche to this vignette as one of the 'face up cards' will, ofcourse, be the Ace of Spades, which has been, and always will be a metaphore for death.
