Western outlaw 12-inch figure & base

I had the Sideshow Toys outfit from their Billy the Kid figure, nice looking shirt and sweater but I didn’t have the figure or hat. A friend made me the custom hat from felt for me, and I used a DML head on one of their bodies, I used a younger looking headsculpt.

I made a leather belt to put the custom Bowie knife on that I made and used the Sideshow holster and six-gun. I used some scrap t-shirt material and made a Wells Fargo cash bag and another piece of the material for the bandana around the figure’s face. The figure was sold on eBay and I didn’t weather the figure so he does look very clean.

The base started off as a decorative plaque and I added some plaster of paris for the dusty street and built up a sidewalk from craft sticks. A wooden section of a building was built up from the base, plastic was cut and grimed up for the window. I used acrylic paints and dry-brushed heavily. I printed some real signs and posters to scale and attached these to the building, in a book about the west there was a picture of a hand painted general/gun store and I copied part of their sign for the building. When I build these bases I usually make it up as I go along, craft sticks, bits of balsa wood and white glue everywhere.

Floor section (with gunfighter figure).

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