Making Bird Forms

I mount quite a few sandhill cranes for use as decoys for my personal use (legal species to hunt in Texas). I purchase commercial forms and cut them. None of them will work without extensive carving for regular mounts or how I heavily modify them to work with my metal bases.

I am looking at trying to learn to pour my own foam or cast them. How would I go bout building a mould from my carved up body?

Some years I make 20, some none. Always mount a few for friends for thier homes that they bring to me. I am an amateur, but do hold the federal permit.

I am tired of buying bodies as I cast my own heads....etc..

Thanks for any help.

P.S. I am allergic to fiberglass, but ill brave it if its the only way.

 

I searched and found my nearly exact post from a year ago. There was a link there to make bodies, but I just bought commercial ones after looking at it. Not going to purchase any more.

 

Not sure my wording is coming across correctly. I need bird forms. I Weld light weight EMT to plate steel. Cut forms. Insert plate and pipe. Foam over and then mount bird.

Id like a way to pour my own instead of purchasing forms, cutting them down, etc. It would be nice to alter 1 form and then pour them myself, instead of cutting every one of them down. I looked over some made by another taxidermist and altered my design to make them durable on stakes.

Carving each would not save me any time. I already basically am doing that but with store bought forms.

 

My design is sound. Just tired of cutting perfectly good forms down 1 at a time to make what I need. Covered my uglymug

 

Here is a pic of a form of a goose my young nephew was helping me prepare. You can see where I basically cut it in half to do what I do and then foam back over. It would be waaayyy easier to cast a copy of my prepared form.

 

Yes Sir. What and how would I make the mould? Plaster of Paris?????