Creative Juices

...always seem to come at the wrong moments.  Of course if you don't act on them, it feels like forever until they come again!  Thus today when the need to play with epoxy hit me, I knew exactly who to work on.  :)  My drastic cutom that showed up in my second posting and in the 'Guessing game.'  I have to say, I did not think anyone would guess what he started as and I was wrong.  Laura correctly guessed that he started as a Lonesome Glory (though there really is so little of the original left, I've sanded all of the original exposed plastic away!)  Darn his high tail set; I now know another thing to be fixed.  *wink*

So I guess this post will be dedicated to him.  I think it's more amusing to start at the very begining, which was probably 4 years ago.  (holy wow, I can't believe it's been that long)  The inspiration for this piece came from this photo in the Delaware Valley Horse News I believe.





And thus a LG got hacked to pieces.  These are some of the first photos after I reattached his limbs.









I lost interest in resculpting him, so I chopped up some more models.  And then lost interest in all of them as well.  About 3 months later I offered them for sale as they were;  two of the four sold.  In the process, this guy wanted to show me his wonderful jumping skills by jumping off my back deck while taking pictures.  He looked something like this after that.





So I put Humpty back together again.  (and apparently thought the bathroom would be a good place to take pictures... this is at least 3 years ago)
















I was happy with my progress, but I lost interest again for another year or so.  I pulled him out again over this summer and was appalled.  I couldn't believe I was happy with how I left him.  (Isn't that how it always goes?)  I sanded down all (and I do mean all) of his original plastic and muscle detailing, pulled off his neck and legs and started again.  This time I wanted to make sure that I got enough twist in his movement, specifically his neck which I completely forgot about last time. 













Over the past few months I've been fiddling with minor adjustments of his limbs to get them exactly where I want them.  Frequently I would detach his legs to reposition them (I guess that's not considered 'minor' then.  Lol)  I've finally managed to get all of his legs on and relatively decided where I want the hole to be for the pole that will support him.  Of course looking at the photos now I see more issuse that I want to fix with his legs. 

















There are some more pictures here if you want to see more angles.  He is such a pain to photograph with his crazy twisting action.  If anyone sees any other glaring defects, please let me know.  I really want to finalize his basic position before I move on to details of any kind (mind you, I'm just itching to add some muscling) but I just can't see what's wrong anymore.  I would rather not put him away for another year to gain fresh eyes so I hope you guys don't mind me borrowing yours!