Have the chance to mount a Fawn. Need some help please. I would like to do it laying down. Where should I make the cut and how to skin out the hoofs. Have never done a full mount yet. Thanks for the help BOB
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When laying down I like to make a vent cut to the brisket. Then a small (short) cut from the base of the skull to base of the neck. the legs I tube and make a small cut (3") from the ankle up. Make sence? Joe
Joe
It takes care and tedious work, but it CAN be done. The outline on how to do it is someplace in the archives. I only make a small ventral cut, cut all four legs from the hocks/knees to between the toes and that's it. I cut the foreleg and back leg bones between those joints. As for the head, take extreme care when you cut off the ear canals and work it forward. When you go back together, cut the mannikin head off with a wedge cut right above the jawline/neck juncture. Use the Bondo method on the ears. Don't worry about the butts at this point. YOu can push clay through the mouth and build them when the form is installed. Install the head up the neck tube and pin it in place. Then shove the neck up the tube and the wedge will align it with the head. I cut the head off of long japan pins and just pin the form back together. The disjointed mannikin legs sometimes have to be cut as well. I cut them at the same point I did the actual bone. I push the upper bone down and imbed a wire up the leg. Then I install the lower leg and mate it up by sharing the leg wire. Sew with invisible thread. No visible seams anywhere.
I have tried to skin them little buggers from the face and allways ripped the mouth up. I have also tried to skin without having a short neck cut but tear between the ears. If you can skin without making a cut on the neck by all means go for it. I have had too many of them with skin like rabbits. George is the master! If you can do it like he says you should. Joe
Just such a bad seamstress I had to learn it differently. I skin them out on a soft, plush towel and I set the nose down on the towel and use it as support for the head as I press the skin down over the skull. Once you clear those ears, it just pops out.
sure, a bad seamstress! I bet if I ask how to sew up a fawn without showing a seam, you'd be the first to tell me how!
Be hunest, you are the master!
I have allways hung them upside down by there back legs and used a sharp knife to help with the skinning around the head, but allways nicked the skin or it just flat out tore when I get to the ear bases. I will try using a soft towel and see how it works. Thanks! Joe