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  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Newport News VA
The Duke
Posted by Buddho on Friday, December 18, 2009 8:01 AM

Here is something a little different than the busts I usually do. A friend of mine asked if I could fix repair and repaint a 3 foot plaster caricature of John Wayne. The hat rim was cracked so badly the entire brim had to be replace with high density foam. I drilled wooden dowels throught the brim into the plaster to locate the new brim and bonded everything with a 2 part epoxy. The figure was then primed and repainted with Michaels' acrylics: 

thanks for looking..!

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State
Posted by rjkplasticmod on Friday, December 18, 2009 8:14 AM

Looks better than new.  Nice save & painting.

Regards,  Rick

RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Massachusetts
Posted by ajlafleche on Friday, December 18, 2009 9:48 AM

Hmmm, John Wayne duirng his one-glove-Michael-Jackson period!

Nice job.

Remember, if the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Indiana, USA
Posted by cassibill on Friday, December 18, 2009 4:18 PM

Looks like the Duke.  Nice repair.  One glove, usually on the dominant hand, is not all that uncommon a sight with cowboys for some reason.  I think some types of rodeo gloves do not come as a pair, only a single glove for either ther left or right hand.  I'm thinking bull or bronc riding.

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  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Sunday, December 20, 2009 10:48 AM

Wow, does that go inside the house or outside?

If outside it's the most bad*** lawn/garden gnome in the history of the human race...

Do you know who makes it or where you friend bought it? I wouldn't mind having one of my own.

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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