So a lot of folks have asked for a side by side with the commercially available bust.
Here ya go...

I'm calling this done until I test fit it into the collar opening.
The folks that made the original may be great prop makers but they had no clue how to model beards!! Hilariously bad!!!

It's amazing what a little facial hair can do!!! The first pass with Magic Sculpt. I'll tool it more when it sets. Slowly starting to look like an old friend!!! When I saw the bust in person, I was surprised just how good the piece actually looked. It was the first time I even thought about making o...

Absolutely Wally!!! I just wanted to share a photo of the worst lockdown haircut on the planet!! LOL! I'm still tweaking but it looked so funny I wanted to post. I also wanted to say THANK YOU to our fearless Leader Scott. Without his fantastic photos of the bust he took at the auction, it would be ...

Sad indeed. Thanks for letting us know ...

Yep... if it was available for the Halloween film, there is a good chance it's still a working prop for set dressers...

My guess is that the Batman production made a copy of the Shakespeare bust at 20th Century Fox studio to make their bust. Looking at the bust in the Halloween H20 film, I think THAT is the Dobie Gillis bust based on color, finish and there is no hard line where there would be if it had the separate ...

Beethoven also from the same studio!! Fox had quite the collection from R&L ...

I'm just glad to know they didn't destroy the original piece to make a one off Shakespeare.

Here is the un-altered bust in the Dobie Gillis classroom with a "bronze" finish compared to a photo of the bust in the shop...

So the 20th Century Fox Set/Prop Dept. is where the Shakespeare bust was created prior to Batman...

Just read that these were filmed at 20th Century Fox prior to Batman.... Same prop and set departments.... just a few years earlier...

Lo and behold, The bust that becomes the Shakespeare bust is under the flag!!!

Back and forth with the electronics but we are in full Halloween mode so new things take a back seat.
I'm chomping at the bit to really get into the bust!!!

More awesomeness!!!!

I can't even imaging the hutzpah it took to do your presentation in character!!!

If I've learned anything over the years, to have a batsuit is to be constantly editing a batsuit!!! Onward and upward!!!

Epic work Mark!!!