I am doing a boar whose ears had been pretty chewed by the dogs and also had old damage too. I turned the ears as best as I could but the skin on top of the ears is torn pretty badly. How would you go about fixing this?
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Mark,
I've had the same problem more than once and here's how I fix it.
Turn the ear as far as possible. Try to get it turned around the torn areas. I then take a dryer sheet that the wife uses in the clothes and cut it a little biger than the damaged part of the ear. I super glue it all the way around the edges. This gives me something to keep the bondo from oozing out all over the place. If I have any part of the ear that I can't turn, I will inject it with formaldahide and card till dry. Once dry I use apoxie sculpt to smooth in the damaged area of the ear. I will also use a tooth brush to texture the sculpted area.
Hope this helps.
Jimmy
I simply cut the inside of the tears and or notches open and turn the hole ear like you would with a good ear. I mount up the ear with a good ear linner with Five minute epoxy and after it sets, i cut the shapes of the torn out sections out and after the ear completely dries up I rebuild the edges with epoxy sculpt. i have done ears very many different ways, and this way is the quickest and it allows you to match the tears and notches perfectly.