fish casting

[wildriver]

I have been casting closed mouth fish with bondo for some time now. Now I want to cast an open mouth salmon  so my ? is how the heck do I do it! any help would be great thank you WRT

[Randy Budzynski]

Just do what you've been doing only make a plaster mouth plug before you mold.

[wildriver]

then do you dremal  the mouth out and sculpt with epoxy?

[rp]

Hi there

U can use plaster as Randy said and after u have moded ur fish u can remove the mouth plug and use either latex or resin to make a mouthplug of ur mold. My suggestion woud be to use latex.
Gary Bruch did a tutorial in one of the Breakthrough magazines on this. I posted a tutorial on old school molding and casting with plaster.
Go chech the tutorial section out

[rp]

here is a link
http://www.taxidermy.net/forum/index.php/topic,102007.0.html

[rp]

here is the casting link
http://www.taxidermy.net/forum/index.php/topic,109503.0.html

[wildriver]

thanks a bunch rp I dont know how I missed those in the tutorials