Aoudad Alterations

Aoudad
In this "Behind the Scenes" you will follow along as I alter a commercially 
purchased Aoudad manikin to fit the skin properly.  The end result is shown in this photo. Many hours of work was involved to do this alteration, but that is normal, especially for exotic animals.

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Painting a Reproduction Striped Bass

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Here I snapped just a few photos throughout my creation of a Reproduction Striped Bass Mount. There are 1000s of different techniques when it comes to painting fish, and mine includes the use of an airbrush, powder paints, watercolor pencils, wax paint, and even finger painting from time to time. All my fish have numerous coats of a high quality gloss topcoat to protect the paint and give that wet look we all desire!

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Preparing a Cape for the Tannery

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WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES INSIDE. DO NOT CLICK IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO SEE THEM!
Inside you will see a few photos of the process from once the deer is dropped off at my shop to prepare it for the commercial tannery. The tannery I use is located in Michigan. All mammals are skinned, split, fleshed, salted, and shipped to Michigan where they are turned into real leather.

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Mounting a Red Fox

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Watch this fox come to life in this step by step photo sequence!

Mounting a Whitetail Deer

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Coming SOON!

Mounting Custom Bear Fight

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This is probably my favorite job I'm yet to have the pleasure to work on. Follow along from altering the forms to adding the saliva!