Re: first bass mounting
i did a skin mount because the customer brought me a frozen fish. and skin mounts are cheaper. and bass reproduce.
the customer wants a big ol mouth. and this one isnt distended as alot ive seen. the fluid line should run from tail to lower mandables and this one does pretty good.
if you want a closed mouth ask for it.
this is if you were saying this one was distended. or maybe just courious as many are. depends on the taxidermist. some are better than others and represent a better pose of a real life animal than others. search largemouth bass mounts. my pait job smokes many youll see. why on my first? because i watched a step by step painting dvd
here the way to distened examples. obviously not done by me since this was my first
but its what the paying customer wants. if he says paint it purple then its purple. replicas are ok. but if someone is paying good money and wants the actual fish he caught then thats his choice.
this is the fish i did. red is fluid line blue is to overbearing example.
bass in the wild do extend thier mandables to engulf prey. see any fingers?
another note. the foam form i used for this bass was $18. the eyes. were $5ish. a fiberglass repro blank that requires many hrs of sanding seams and attaching fins and buying gills and attaching ect is roughly $150-$170 dollars depending on the sculpter and line you get. meaning this fish would been at least $100 more than the skin mount.
im not even going into the artistic aspect lol.
