I'm looking for a semi upright or upright offset
with a straight on face. I want to show more of the left
shoulder but with the deer looking straight out of the wall
with maybe a slight left turn? It's for 6-1/2" x 19".
I looked in McKenzie's cat. but couldn't find it.
I know I can udjust the head on a left turn but wondering
if anyone knows of one that comes this way.
I had a [a supply company] form laying around and spent all
day sawing and shimming but those forms are hopeless.
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I'd say you cant find an offset mannikin with a straight pose. That wouldnt make sense. If they did, the result would be actually that the deer would be looking at an angle rather than straight ahead. This is due to the offset shoulders angling the deers direction. BUT, if you use an offset mannikin with a turn in either direction, the result is you have the face pretty much looking straight out (in a 90 degree angle to the wall its hanging on). Because the offset in the shoulder counters the turn in the head, it results in the deer looking straight if you get my drift? You can make minor alterations to have the head precisely wher you want it.
Just buy a left turn offset form and alter it. Wont be much alteration, should be pretty easy. Hogger is right, it wont be a straight pose, it will be a slight left turn.
Thats why I said straight 'face', knowing that
everything being straight an offset would of course
point the face down the wall.
I just didn't want to cut on a (McKenzie) form if I could
find one already complete.
No big deal tho -
thanks
...Has what you need. I had a customer that wanted his third deer head to be straight, to go between a left and right turn heads that he already had. I refuse to do straight ahead deer heads because they look too "dead". Research has a series that the turn and the offset shoulder are balanced so the deer is virtually looking straight out when it's finished, WITHOUT the stuffed "dead deer" look of the typical straight mount.
look on ben mears website. they have them.
I'll check with Research and Mears.
With all the creative new poses I'm surprised
they aren't in a standard lineup. In fact I live
an hour from McKenzie's Texas warehouse and I'm
gonna suggest it to them to come up with one.
I was just leary of cranking a head around that far
cause' then the lower throat muscle detail wouldn't line up.
R