About a week ago I finished a deer mount that I did for my brother. This is my 3rd deer mount I've done, so I am still a beginner. I haven't had any training or watch any videos, and have obtained almost all of my information on taxidermy from taxidermy.net. Taxidermy is just a hobby for me, and I would appreciate if you take the time to look at the pictures I took, and explain some major flaws or introduce some new techniques that would help me with my next mount which I will be starting here pretty soon. I have a fun time doing taxidermy and am always trying to improve.

The biggest problem I ran into during the mounting process was that that face of the form was too small. It seemed I had excess skin everywhere. Also after looking at different reference photos and other mounts, I'm not real please on how the nose turned out. Something just doesn't look right. Another problem I saw was that I should have built up around the back-side of the antlers with more clay before I put the hide on.

Thanks for your time, it's much appreciated.

The link to the pictures is here, by clicking on where it says "Taxidermy".

http://community.webshots.com/user/kansashunter

Or here is a direct link:

http://community.webshots.com/album/261390222VwxrfX