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1/5th Breaking Bad - Gustavo Fring - Boooommmm !

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Gustavo Fring

From Wikipedia;

Gustavo "Gus" Fring is a fictional character portrayed by Giancarlo Esposito in the Breaking Bad franchise, serving as the main antagonist of the crime drama series Breaking Bad and a major character in its prequel Better Call Saul. He is a Chilean-American businessman and major narcotics distributor in the Southwestern United States who uses several legitimate businesses, including a chain of successful fast food restaurants called Los Pollos Hermanos (The Chicken Brothers) and an industrial laundry facility called Lavandería Brillante (Bright Laundry), as fronts used to launder money for a vast drug operation. Though outwardly he works with the Mexican cartel to distribute cocaine, he secretly plots revenge against its members over the death of his business associate and romantic partner Maximino "Max" Arciniega at the hands of Hector Salamanca, the patriarch of the cartel-backed drug trade in the Southwest. To become independent of the cartel's cocaine, he constructs a secret lab under an industrial laundry to manufacture methamphetamine.

This 1/5th Bust is produced by Scale Collectibles and sculpted by the brilliant Sid Naique.

The bust comes printed in SC usual mid grey resin, in this case its in two parts, what remains of Gus's Head and his mangled Torso. The head simply drops onto the body, with no filler needed at all.

The 'Head'

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Body

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All( lol) together;

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A few shots of Gustavo from the show;

In Happier times

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Ring,ring,ring,ring, Booom !

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I have never seen the programme but the figure looks a devil to paint successfully. I have no doubt that you will pull it off though.
John.
 
Another breaking fan, so I'll be watching this.
Fun fact. Giancarlo Esposito was born in Copenhagen!
 
I have never seen or even heard of the program. The sculpt looks very well done but even unpainted looks horrific. As John said it looks very difficult to paint but no doubt you'll do a fine job.
 
A fabulous actor, he really bought that sense of menace to breaking bad...

Incidentally he went on to play Moff Gideon in the recent Star Wars based show 'The Mandalorian', which he totally smashed...
 
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A fabulous actor, he really bought that sense of menace to breaking bad...

Incidentally he went on to play Moff Gideon in the recent Star Wars based show 'The Mandalorian', which he totally smashed...

I know strange - Darth Chicken Man :smiling5: :smiling5: :smiling5:
 
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Started work on him

Just base colours applied with acrylics, next to start on his 'good' side with the oils;

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Got some oils on his good side. Off into the dryer overnight, then I can add some more highlights to his skin tone.
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Awesomeness indeed... loving this Steve, it really does look like Gustavo...your oil work is really doing this justice..
 
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More tones added to his skin, eye painted in, hair painted - still wet. Started on his gory side.

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I have never seen or even heard of the program.
If you like crime fiction, IMHO it’s one of the best shows you could possibly watch. Though don’t expect an uplifting or happy show — the basic premise is that it’s about how a normal guy (not Gus Fring, BTW) slowly turns into a ruthless criminal, and the effects of that on everyone around him.
 
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