Need Help With A Crappie Form

No video but I posted pics here somewhere step by step. I demonstrated once at an Indiana taxidermy show and people were amazed at how simple it was. No sandbox, no proping the fish on a curved surface, no stapling or sewing the back seam.

 

https://www.taxidermy.net/threads/368036/#post-2471655

 

Well photo bucket sure didn't help on that one did they? What an idiot their new CEO was! The next half cast I do I will copy and paste the dialog and replace with new pics form a different site host. Not one for making videos.

 

You do realize it's in the Breakthough Fish Manual right? I simply forgo some steps and cast the fish flat in plaster on a garbage bag. Once the filler starts to firm up I pull the skin and filler in it from the cast, and prop show side up in a curved position with paper towels. Wet fins periodically with a spray bottle, and when the filler has firmed up enough predrill a hole into the back of the fish. Then screw in a 1 x 2 furring strip, card the fins and gills and gill covers, and hang from the raters to dry. I also pack the mount with paper toweling to hold it open in position for the first day or so. Then remove. Many times I speed up the drying with a floor mount fan.

 

Here are a couple more I mounted using the half cast method. A couple of locally caught 17 inch crappies.

 

Love to see the non show side.

 

if you click on photos it'll open in another page.. it did for me

 

You CANT its NON SHOW.. lol

 

I'll post a picture when I get more time.

 

Awesome creative mindset .....I am stuck on a frozen bass and how to start it from frozen measuring and how to cut it out and what's best