Altering a black bear form to fit a grizzly bear

Hi. We are looking at altering a black bear form to fit a grizzly bear. Seems like lots of people do it when we were looking at catalouges. I would appreciate some pointers on changes to the form or if anyone has seen an article on this? I checked the archives with no luck.

thanks in advance.

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Hope it's a big bear

You're definitely going to need a changeout head as the grizzly has more of a stocky look (and certainly more than some of the black bear forms on the market that look like German shepherds. The body has to be stocky and it needs that hump on the back. I hope you've looked harder for someone with the correct form.