This is my thread to show the stuff I have been mounting. Been during taxidermy on and off for a long time. Got to a point where I needed some professional help. I contacted a taxidermist I knew and started training under him the first of this year. My goal is to do this full time , so I can retire from my current profession in 8 years and do something I really enjoy.
Here is my latest mount I completed. This is the first deer that I did about 90% of the work on. Still have a few areas for improvement, but it is coming along, slowly.
Here are some pics of a restoration job I'm doing on my father's 20 year old mount. These are before pics. Will be cleaning up the cape, recontructing the nose, repairing eyelids, repairing lips, and repainting areas on the face.
This last one is a close up of the old nose, sorry kind of blurry.
Ok here are ths finished pics of the restoration. This first one is a overall shot of the deer.
This pic is showing the rebuilding of the eye and side shot of the reconstruction of the nose.
This pic shows the same on the other side.
This pic is a closeup of the nose. This was the major area to do. Rebuilt the nose, textured it, painted it, and glossed it.
Here is a pic of my first largemouth bass I mounted and painted. The paint job still needs work, but my instructor said it was real good for a first time.
This pic is a walleye I mounted on the form today. This stage is what it looks like until it dries. Using plastic screen to keep the fins upright until dry.
The next step after it dries is to paint on a flexible fin glue, that's so the fins don't break off. Set the eye, fill in shrunken areas with epoxie, bondo up the back, seal the fish, then paint.
Here as a few fish that are ready for finishing work.
