Busts and mini busts
Busting out with no holds barred
Body language experts would have that those who converse with arms crossed over their chest are being defensive. Those who choose not to engage weary more on the anti-social meter.
Pity and question then the plethora of characters immortalised in bust. As many of their brethren and comrades have seen, those who choose to open up lose their arms.
Defensive?
Perhaps. But at least those that are guarded remained armed for future battles.
Stare me down?
Peruse the gallery of mini busts for faces trading spaces courtesty of Bowen Designs, Moore Creations, DC Direct and Marvel Select.
Busts expected to ship for this week
- Arcade Mini-Bust By Bowen Design
- Warriors Three Mini-Bust 3-Pack By Bowen Design
Complimentary to busts, there are statues.
Black Canary mini bust - Women of the DC Universe - designed by Adam Hughes - sculpted by Jack Mathews - DC Direct
Pitch up them vocal chords, squeeze the cheeks and belt one out. Scream, yell and holla back at the top of your lungs. Or cheat and make it sound like you are.
Sculpted by Jack Mathews from designs by Adam Hughes, this Black Canary
mini bust is part of the "Women of he DC Universe 2" line-up from DC Direct. Comes with bustesque silence as the heroine is poised in a pose of a screaming power punch.
Black Canary can bleed your ears. And there are 3 simple tricks in doing the same.
- Grab an ear - No doubt, the closer you are to the person, the louder you will sound to them. Grabbing one of their ears and talking directly down the hole of wax leaves you sounding a whole lot louder and brings them that little closer to deafness.
- Be an arrogant tourist - Simple rules when visiting a foreign country. If locals can't understand you at first, talk a little slower and a little louder. Makes having to know what the local language is completely moot. Have people think you're an arrogant oil warfaring tourist and you'll come off as loud and abrasive with no trouble at all.
- Talk in the shower - With or without clothes on, all those tiles will echo and reverberate your voice to the point where it picks up at least a level. Leaving the taps off and not flushing helps tremendously too.
Got any tips on making a big sound?
Sandman mini bust - Bowen Designs - sculpted by The Kucharek Brothers
Strutting it out on the front cover of
The Daily Bugle Thomas Hayden Church flaunts his arms as Flint Marko, better known in the comics as Sandman. Sandman, a man made entirely out of sand and forever stuck with one outfit.
Living almost all of his criminal life with jockeys full of silica and prenatal glass, the wear and tear makes for easier accommodation of grains. Ordinary folk aren't in such a position. Some might actually like that feeling of eternal "beachness" inside their clothes. Others, not as much.
Through the ringer - dump the clothes into the washing machine. Hopefully with the appearance of water, the sand will rejoice and return to swimming in the liquid. If nothing else, that rank seaweed smell will be lesser for the ordeal of sand pitting the Westinghouse.
Vacuuming - take to a mighty bowling ball sucker and rack up a bag - or cylinder for the bagless - full of C and D grade sand. Perfect for adding that extra weird roughage to any meal.
Abstinence - best bet in not taking a crack full of sand is to stay away from the sand pit and the beach in general. Teeming with grains of sand the beaches be. Only the fool hardy venture into the sea with no regard for the dangers of rubbing blind an eye full of sand.
J. Jonah Jameson mini bust - Marvel Universe - Diamond Select Toys - sculpted by Rocco Tartamella
J. Jonah Jameson, cigar chomping publisher and editor-in-chief of
The Daily Bugle. Hard nosed for the stories and always out there to snare Spider-Man in a spotlight. Jameson also happens to be the creator of the super villain known as the Scorpion.
Creating a super villain to not only take down your editorial enemy but also creating news stories from the effect to shine your own publication? Genius really.
Beats anything stage managers of television stations would do. Such as setting up kids on a disused cannon in a gunfire prone site. Or
stacking soldiers for effect.
What it all comes down to is selling sensations and newspapers. The flashier the better, but the flash bombs are not the desired effect.
Slow news day? Never when you can create the headlines yourself. Of course, it's not wise to
take things too far.
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Busts expected to ship are taken from the current week's shipping list.
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