Painting Mannequins (By Request!)

[Glenn Barbaritz]

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last one, what do you Guys think?

[Glenn Barbaritz]

thank goodness His eyes didnt get messed up. notice in the first pic that His teeth are knocked right out. thats what anyone messing with my collection would look like when I got ahold of them. Glenn

[NZMark]

Glenn, WOW!!
Well done MATE! I hadn't heard from you for awhile, now I know why
Great job - you've done a damn good job - I initially thought of just building another head for you, but you've transformed a jigsaw puzzle into a masterpiece.
Just to show everyone what a huge job Glenn's done, (I'm not sure I'd have even tried it myself) here's the head (unfinished) before I sent it over to him.
Glenn, I'll email you at home, but publicly I have to say FANTASTIC
Best Regards (love that helmet net)
Mark.

[Glenn Barbaritz]

alas... I remember that mug before His unfortunate disfigurement. thanks for the praise Mark. still wish I had those eyebrows though. I will probably try doing them again and just take my time. the photo you just put up will help me with guide lines for them. but like any athlete will tell you, without the proper coaching youll never make your desires come true. kudos to you from all of Us "inspiring mannequin make over artists" Glenn

[Petr]

Home made heads

Hi boys,
For my mannequins I do these heads.I paint it,my friend makes the heads.
I think it is not perfect,but is enough for me for the purpose.I say:bad head of mannequin spoils wonderfull uniform and perfect head distracts from uniform.I try to do something between.
Best regards from Czech Republic Petr.

[Petr]

[Petr]

[bratwurstdimsum]

its nice to see something other than a snarling, unhappy german face...very lively and different, good on you!

[bnz. 42]

OMG, Glenn! Why did such terrible thing happened.. I know that you were looking and waiting for this mannequin for so long! And it was a good one; Mark did a great job with the "plastic surgery" and painting. Man, I just cannot believe it
To be honest I have experienced something similar too last year. I also was looking for a mannequin forever. All mannequins that I saw for sale were too big for my ww2 uniforms. I knew that there are only "Webster" mannequins of small size available but I did not want to spend over $400/a piece (with stand + shipping). So I was keep searching, mostly on eBay.
And imagine how happy I was when on one sunny day I found and bought at once 2 Webster mannequins for only $100. That is not all, they came together fully dressed in uniforms (from boots to helmets): one in WW2 Russian (repro) and another in DDR. Of course I did not need uniforms, but I thought I would sell it on eBay maybe with some + ROI.
Anyway, a long story short. They both arrived completely destroyed, just like that face below, but not just face, everything was destroyed! Man I was pissed of! I send the seller almost $200 for shipping and instructed him to pack it "very well". And instead he put it all together in one soft box and send it for $50 UPS ground
I still have pictures that I made when they arrived, but I just cannot look at them again..
Life is good anyway, and as one famous Russian writer said (Chekhov): "If you have lost your hand, be happy you did not lose you head". At least, Glenn, your uniform have not been dameged!

[derka]

hello,

a very pleasant thread for learning,
and comparizon of differents technics.

here's a dirty one :



regards
derka

[NZMark]

Very, very COOL!
That gives me ideas for another of my set-ups.
What paints/media did you use to get your effects?
NICE
Mark.

[Glenn Barbaritz]

Derka, that came out very nice. boy, re visiting this thread brings back all sorts of emotions. what a roller coaster ride that was. Glenn