With New Year coming you dear colleagues " PlanetFigure
"!
Your friends from Russia "ModelSculpt" we congratulate you on new 2008, and it is desirable creative successes, qualitative commerce, fine mood and certainly the big health!

Allow to present you a new horse figure " Mountain Man " 75 mm. A material for manufacturing model " Magic Sculpt ". The author Zlobov Sergey.
Also some photos from process of manufacturing.

Yours faithfully, your friends and colleagues from a site "ModelSculpt".

... And some photos from process of modelling and construction...

Sergey Beautiful work as always! You are really master of horses! Merry christmas.

Fantastic Sculpting Sergey. I look forward to seeing this released from Seil.

Fantastic

Beautiful and full of action !! Nice work my friend

WOW! WOW! and a couple hundred more WOWs!

Every figure you make, Sergey, is astounding.

All the best,
Dan

Mikko - Guy - Grzegorz - Costas - Daniel - thanks for your kind words!
Also thanks for the help with information Guy Herrick!

Below some photos for enthusiasm which helped me are artists P. Calle and A. Rodrigez.

There is a photo of very interesting pose of the horseman " Buffalo Hunter Spitting a Bullet Into a Gun, 1892 (detail.) Watercolor on Paper. Frederic Remington Art
Museum, Ogdensburg, NY. "

And still - a question and the request - it is possible to eat at friends the exact information of a shirt as in picture Calle - I met similar identification of tribe Blackfoots style is really?

Thanks once again for your attention.
Yours faithfully, I do not say goodbye...

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Great sculpt ! A good figure !!
You're a great sculptor Sergey, and I can't wait to see this one painted.

Cheers,

Johan

Many thanks Sergey. You know me...........we can never have enough pictures of Mountain Men. I have added these to my growing collection of MM.

Simply superb.

John

Sergey,
I echo all the above comments. Just GREAT
Cheers
John

Guy - John - John - thanks, I am glad that you liked my figure, hope following you will not disappoint!;-)
Thanks, and with coming New Year!

You might try http://www.geocities.com/barrenriver1833 This is a site that was put up by a local historian/buckskinner. He has as few nice pics of clothing and gear used by the mountain men. He also sells a lithograph called "At the Beaver Pond" which shows a trapper in great detail. The site also has links to several other sites worth checking out.

Sergey,

Wonderful work as always. I love the action pose, so many mountain men are just standing figures. Add this to your growing catalog of masterpieces .

Best
Jeff

Hi Guys,
YOU ARE A FIRST RATE MASTER SCULPTOR SERGEY! WOW!!! I just got on to say that. Mountain men is one of my favorite subjects and it is one I am trying to gather info on to make my first sculpture. I hope when I get around doing it, it pleases you. But...with all these poses already done...mine will no doubt will be found already done and I hope I am forgiven
May I know what is the yellowish epoxy? Is it magic sculpt also? mine is gray.

Take care and happy and healthy New Year!!!!

Hector

It's a superb and splendid work. My best regards.
By
fernando

Thanks Twofalls are interesting references!
Jeff - thanks, I hope also for the following figures!
Hector - thanks, yellow color is additive Tamiya putty the standard - I frequently add a drop another apoxi for color and the greater stickiness is allows to see better various layers at a moulding.
Fernando thanks!
With coming New Year to friends and colleagues!

More Mountain Man info

Fabulous sculpture, Sergey! It is going to be produced for sale, right? I hope so!

One thing I've seldom if ever seen on depictions of mountain men is that they were DIRTY! Except when they were going to Rendezvous, trappers seldom took time to get really cleaned up. They lived in their leathers 24/7. Most mountain men were beaver trappers. This meant that their buckskins were often nearly black from dirt, grease (leathers are a good place to wipe your hands when eating buffler hump. I know this from first hand experience!) blood, etc. Heaviest concentrations would likely be the fronts of the thighs and the seat of the pants. Knees and lower legs would show more water,mud, blood and grass stains.The rest of the leather would also be dirty and discolored to varying degrees. Another thing to keep in mind is that the leathers may have been pieced together from several different pieces, which may have somewhat different base colors, as will whatever patches have been sewn on.

An excellent reference book for details of mountain man gear and dress is "The 1837 Sketchbook of the Western Fur Trade" by Rex Allen Norman. It's an examination of the artwork of Alfred Jacob Miller, the only artist to ever have been to an actual Rendezvous Of course, if you can find a book about Miller and his works that would probably help, too. Also check out the Book of Buckskinning, vol 1-8 for some great pics of modern interpretations of mountain men, and some very informative historical articles.