I was just wondering if anyone has tried to fill a fish with liquid foam and get the fish mounted very fast,maybe this would work for small fish
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Better try it on a chicken first. It would not surprise me if the skin splits, foam oozes out on the feathers, , bulges appear where bulges do not belong and humps and hollows prevail. At least you are thinking and trying to improve in new and exciting ways but this one is, I think, fraught with pitfalls.
If you use very small quantities of foam at a time and allow to fully cure between additions. This way you have lots of extra space inside - but tis still tricky. pour some in and let it go to one end, next appliation should go somehwere else - keep doing this until all the contact surface has been foamed with a void at your incision. fill that last gap with the smallest amount of foam possible to avoid it pushing forth. By the time you do all this I doubt its worth it if saving time was your intent... btw - make sure your foam is fully cured between applications. any spongy foam can have new foam leak behind it and you can experience a blow out where it gets trapped betweent he skin and existing foam. thats probably your biggest risk.. if that happens its a write off - your skin has bust and the surface is now contaminated with foam. You'll know when yer ready to play with this technique - as you won't be asking here for questions on how to do it ;) You really have to understand and be able to manipulate foam to pull it off - but yes - with experience it can be done =) *safety note* always wear organic vapour cartridges on a tight fitting respirator when foaming as isocyanites and cyanide gases are given off during curing...
Looking for faster ways is great if the quality is maintained, but this one's been tried before and ain't stood the test of time nor tolerance. A good fish taxidermist can mount a fish in 10 to 15 minutes tops. It'll take that long for the foam to work and harden enough to start cleaning the crap off the fins and scales.
I said in my post and I'll paste it again here for convenience...
"By the time you do all this I doubt its worth it if saving time was your intent... "
The guy asked if it can be done.. yes it can - I told him how and said it wouldn't be an effective use of his time.
Not sure what your point was by putting my name in your post...