We did a telephone talk with
Bill Nelson and Dan Lavender. At that time it was mentioned that a
figure was being created for the Ventriloquist Central Collection by
Dan Lavender. I am happy to say that figure has arrived and I could
not be more impressed.
I would like to let you know how this figure and came about for the
collection. I was talking to Dan Lavender a couple years ago and
mentioned to him that I really wanted have one of his figures in the
collection. He was amenable to that and that I have a casting of Cecil
Wigglenose II and how would you like to use that casting and make a
figure from it. He thought that was a good idea so I packed up the
Cecil Wigglenose II casting and I sent it to Dan. I did not give a
timeframe for building this and said do it in whatever spare time you
have and when it's done it's done.
I also told him that this is no longer a McElroy but it's a Dan
Lavender figure so therefore I did not need him to do the cradle or
the typewriter style keys and he could created in his own style that
he uses on the wooden head sticks that he builds.
This figure is a loaded figure and it has all around moving eyes with
eyelids that will follow and also blinks its eyelids, it has raising
and lowering eyebrows, side to side self centering eyes, it has
wiggling ears, it has upper lip sneer, lower jaw and stick out tongue
so it really is a fully loaded figure and I have to give my
compliments to Dan because his mechanics are very very smooth and work
flawlessly.
I've attached pictures for you to look at his Cecil II figure and I
have to tell you I am really impressed with his paint job as well.
I know he is partnered with Bill Nelson on building figures and I
think Bill has rubbed off on him because his paintwork is really
really fine.
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