Ed Borris Alamo Defenders Conversions

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1. ed borris says:

   June 19, 2015 at 10:30 AM

   These conversions of the Texans are all in the color light Mocha, for some reason they show up almost white in the pictures. We were only able to get picture’s of about 25% of the Mexican’s which should follow in the near future, but we will try and get the rest of the Mexican’s photographed some time in the next week or so. Thanks to Mike Kutnick for generously donating his time to take these pictures.

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2. Russ Arendell says:

   June 19, 2015 at 12:21 PM

   Great individual work Ed!
   Best, Russ

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3. Wayne W says:

   June 19, 2015 at 1:45 PM

   Impressive stuff, Ed; been wanting to see some of your stuff for some time. Definitely lived up to and exceeded expectations – which were pretty high. Thanks for sharing.

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4. ed borris says:

   June 19, 2015 at 2:06 PM

   Thanks guys, I keep trying.

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5. ed borris says:

   June 21, 2015 at 12:52 PM

   Nothing from Erwin?

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6. Don Perkins says:

   June 22, 2015 at 7:19 AM

   Erwin seems strangely silent! But I think they’re all pretty neat. A MUST-HAVE for any Alamo diorama which seeks to be unique and individualistic. I remember one Alamo diorama (but can’t remember where I saw it) where no two figures were identical. I think that’s why Mr. Remington, the toy soldier playset dealer down in Florida, likes your stuff so much he always rushes to your room at OTSN.

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7. ed borris says:

   June 22, 2015 at 7:45 AM

   Don,

   Well, he has bought close to 300 of them. I think I need to branch out soon, maybe Civil War.

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8. erwin says:

   June 22, 2015 at 10:25 AM

   Ed.Awesome as always!!Sorry ,I was trying to choose the best guys and I was out in the woods yesterday but hard to see from phone pic..I love all ,specially the to top pictures .Looking forward at OTSN to get as much I can if Don spare me …..
   the last 2 figures ,specially the head on one running clubbing w musket(where is the head from!?)
   Very Good choice on wigs, many figures done before for Alamo and same era do not had them and in fact were still well used during that time.

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9. ed borris says:

   June 22, 2015 at 10:49 AM

   I believe that’s a head from an Accurate AWI guy. He had curls on the side, but I trimmed them off as well as his pony tail. I should have over 150 by the time OTSN rolls around. I still have the Mexican’s to photograph, which should be done in the next week. Russ bought six of them already, but I’ll have others before too long.

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10. erwin says:

    June 22, 2015 at 11:00 AM

    Ed, where u get the death poses or shot poses from!?it look like your ideas are very well anatomical done with a lot of logic in movement. WOW!!You really has to use your brain to imagine such moments, because even in movies some people getting shot look very bad when falling, like not real at all. Here is like watching the real battle how it would had been. Just with out the sound but perfect drama I should said

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11. ed borris says:

    June 22, 2015 at 12:17 PM

    Two of the dead Texans are guys that were originally dead, but I had to do a lot of carving on them to alter them from the way they originally looked. One was a Barzso confederate dead with a blanket roll I had to care off and the other was a dead TSSD 7th cavalry bugler, had to carve off his bugle and his spurs. The shots poses, it may seem weird but, I actually put myself in the pose and then try to imitate it with figures laying around, I also incorporate poses form boxing, like the reaction of the human body when it gets knocked out, it goes limp and then they collapse. I try to make my shot poses resembling these images I have in my mind. Believe it or not I actually got one pose from Joe Kenda Homicide Detective, he had a guy that got shot while standing and when he fell he called it the classic dead man fall where your ankles cross, so I duplicated that in a couple of my dead Mexican poses.

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12. erwin says:

    June 22, 2015 at 1:45 PM

    Ed I had the thoughts on you doing yourself the poses and no weird at all in my opinion as is the best way to realize what you doing , I will say better than painters that need some one posing, here you got yourself the idea and the go to table to make it, so great incredible talent/memory to retain the body pose wile doing it. Boxing action poses are indeed the closes to fire shot impact as impact in point area with fast punch bring quick pain and reaction similar to shots. Agree and good point reference.

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13. ed borris says:

    June 22, 2015 at 2:24 PM

    Try something simple a test if you will, pretend you have a rifle in your left hand and a pistol in your right, now pretend you are on top of a wall about to fire down on someone below you. When you bend at the waist to point the pistol down your left arm will elevate naturally. Somewhere in the pictures I think in the other post or maybe they haven’t been posted yet, but four of the same guy in basically four different positions, when you look at him he looks awkward, but if you do the little test above you will see it actually happens naturally. It may be exaggerated a little, but it does rise.

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14. Wayne W says:

    June 22, 2015 at 4:02 PM

    Your technique definitely works Ed – one look at your figures says that. I have some wooden models I use in my sketching and used when I taught drawing. I’ve often thought they would provide a good basic idea of proper positioning for the human body in various action poses if I ever got in to sculpting my own figures and doing drastic conversions (which is definitely on the horizon) – I know they improved my cartooning years ago.

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