Taxidermy Behind The Scenes...

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You spend 99.95% of your life as a taxidermist working real hard to make dead things look alive. Then you get those once and while mounts that are different and even more difficult.
Making a dead thing look real and dead is even harder to pull off.
The body must be limp, soft and you have to express gravity and the weight bearing on the dead muscle and legs.
...I start sewing right now....
First picture is what they requested
Others are the model/form I made to start sewing today.

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Thats Really Different
 
Really cool!
 
Dennis, I have figured out your problem; You don't know how to say No.
(even to crazy people) !

Great effort man.
 
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Update !!! 12 hours later working on my bench today gets this

The underside is completely finished, No felt covering and cut all the unseen skin off..

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Good job, but kinda weird that is what they wanted. Definitely different though
 
It's not for a client trophy room or anything like that. It's for Hollywood.
They need it on a Movie.
 
mate, they must have a huge trophy room ,the mind boggles ,at ,in what scenerio that will end up
 
I'll let you guys know what movie it will be in as soon as I know.
 
hope its not a anti hunting , shitcom...
 
Now all you need is the tongue hanging out and the eyes cloudy and fixed and it will look like you just walked up to it..... great work!!!
 
yes Kman, Thanks ! The tongue is showing slightly on the bottom side about 1/4 inch and the eyes can be is they choose blue dusted , that happens about 30min to an hours after it dies. The first scene is walking up to it after it is shot seconds after, the next scene it is in is in the back of pick-up truck hours later they will of the dusting and dulling for that shot.
 
Ok I feel a little better about it now. To be honest I thought it was just too weird for a trophy room. But hey it's not for me to say.
 
Ok I feel a little better about it now. To be honest I thought it was just too weird for a trophy room. But hey it's not for me to say.
I had a elephant biscuits find it's way too my room this last trip
 
:sick:
 
Thanks for the clarification.
 
Amazing what you can do Dennis!
 

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