Now I get to show a little more shoulder and I get what appears to be more of a right turn w/o cutting the neck. I wanted to show a little more shoulder so I just added to the short shoulder side that would be against the wall. I could have cut the neck to turn it more but it already has a fairly good turn to it. This would be similar to what you want in that I wanted more of a right turn. Here is the new Revolution wall pedestal. Now it is a standard wall mount that comes straight out of the wall. So I added a piece of plywood to the back and foamed in the rest, then rasped some muscle details into it. I knew they were offsets when I bought them but after looking at one of them, I didn’t want an offset for the deer that was going on that form. Here are 2 of the Revolution semi-sneak off-sets. I don’t have any pictures of a neck being cut apart and reattached but here are some pictures where I changed the back of a form. The other option is to leave the neck turn alone and add or remove foam/plywood from the back of the form. One is to cut the neck apart, turn those pieces of foam and the head to get the turn you want then reattached everything. To get more of a turn out of any of those forms there are two options. The Matt Thompson is sold as a wall pedestal. Any of the table/floor pedestals could be made into a wall pedestal by adding a piece of plywood and foaming in any void space then rasping in any newly added musculature. You could turn them any way you want and convert them to wall pedestals. The pictures just happen to be taken looking straight at the deer’s eyes. They can be turned any direction at the brisket. The Tommy Hall, HQ, and Meder forms are sold as table or floor pedestals. You might have to pay more for that being done.
Yes, you can have the neck and head turned to however you want. So am I getting this right, you can have them done on those forms and then turned/shaped so you can have the head/neck angled to your liking? “muddy” wrote: I’m not gunna like, all those right turn wall ped forms look the same to me. Let us know sometime what you decide for that buck. Here are the Matt Thompson forms available through McKenzie. This would probably still require more turn to the neck.
This might also require a little more turn to the right.Īnother form close to what you want is the Joe Meder Profile Pedestal available through McKenzie. You might want to check out this new form from Headquarters Taxidermy Supply. He did the open mouth for the competition.
The form available from Van Dykes is a closed mouth. This picture is the competition mount by Tommy Hall that he specifically sculpted this manikin for. The link below is to the Van Dykes catalog for this form. It would be an easy alteration to turn the neck a little more past 90 degrees. This form is a 90 degree right turn pedestal. IMO you should look at the Tommy Hall Pedestal available through Van Dykes (which is owned by McKenzie now). Remember that any pedestal manikin could be converted to a wall mount. When having a form altered for a certain pose you want to go with something that is as close to the pose you want as possible which makes the alteration as easy as possible and still allows for anatomical accuracy.
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(Dewey – it looks like the manikin for your buck is probably a Buckeye Manikin available through McKenzie and not the actual McKenzie 6500 series semi-sneak.) There are some forms from a few diffferent suppliers that are close to what you want and those might work, but your taxidermist might have to turn the neck a little more. The turns on the McKenzie and Revolution forms are not even close to the amount of turn you want. I am not aware of any whitetail manikins available with the degree of right turn you are looking for and for that size of buck. Muddy – It looks like you want something with a sharp right turn that is past 90 degrees.