I will be mounting a blue wildebeest on a form that I have modified. The head/kneck has been turned about 75 degrees and with just a touch of a head tilt.
All my feild photos, video and other references show rather "fat" wrinkles.
I have been thinking about using, along with some caulk, foam bird neck material, of different sizes, to form these wrinkles. Maybe 1/2 to 1 inch dia.
I have used caulk and clay for smaller mounts like bushbuck, but think for this BIG Ole Beest it would not be the way to go.
Anyone use the neck material befor? Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance.
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Wrinkles are just that: wrinkles. File some relief "wrinkles" in the form. Use a good hide paste and allow the skin to wrinkle naturally. Neck material will only make it look goofy.
B-wildebeest's skin is what i call Brindle. It "natuarally looks like its wrinkled because of coloured "stripes". So be carefull of where you do the wrinkles on the form.If its to deep it might hide the coloured stripes and your end product might not look like the true Beast.
get one and put wrinkles where they are in the form
and if you add any get good reference photos
the tol is great and seems to protect the hair somehow
ive damaged hair before by pushing to hard