CATFISH HEADS

My suggestion is to cast them

 

There was a women from somewhere in Europe , Latvia I think, that posted a huge catfish head a few weeks back. I would find her and ask her for some pointers. I thought the head looked very nice and am pretty sure it was the real thing.

Paul B

 

Kazo, The lady Pescado is referring to goes by the name Sarmite on this forum. Just look up some of her posts on this forum and you should be able to contact her. She does some really good work with catfish.. Good luck! George

 

Just my imput........the eye sockets are too small to go through and remove the cheek meat so you will have to cut the skin around the cheek with a scapal and scrape all the meat down to the skull. After the head dries you can use Great Stuff foam and spray into the cheeks and let dry for a day. Then carve and sand the foam and cover the head with a thin layer of sculpturing compound and set the eyes. You will also have to cut the whiskers off and rebuilt them. What I have done is measure each whisker before you cut them off. Make your whiskers with magic sculp and attach to where the original whiskers were and have your head positioned upward so the whiskers will dry in a flowing motion.

 

heads can be molded with silicone caulk. when i do a mold of a large fish head i put the silicone on in a couple coats, not just one thick coat because it takes a very long time to set up.