I used the McKenzie RF-21 for the first time and am curious as to how others might have used this form. It's a sitting fox, but sitting on it's right hind leg, with hindquarter rotated, with wires molded into the form. The problem I ran into is with the left hind leg, which is retracted so the lower part of the leg is pulled into the thigh. While the form looks very nice and natural, I couldn't find any way other than serious hacking apart of that part of the form to get the left hind leg skin tucked in as it would be naturally. I was just wondering if anyone else has used this form and how you may have handled those hind legs. I used a dorsal cut on the fox.
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Where the animal is sitting or laying down will require some kind of altering. By either using a Dermel tool or Foredom tool to cut out a slot so you're able to do your tucking. Or by remove the whole leg itself. Then you need to cut the leg off with a wedge cut, rasp down the leg smooth to look natural then insert the leg into the skin. Then bondo the leg back on to the form. It's all part of doing a mount So if you're going to do many of these, you better need to get use to altering forms.
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i have used this form many times, you really dont have to alter anything just made a relief cut. you need to go on the backside of the hind leg behind the hock and go up towards the hind quarter. i use a long 1/4" drill as you will need to run through both sides of the form. slide the leg in then attach as mentioned above. if you have a dog go put his leg in the same position and it will give you an idea where the skin needs to slide.