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Community => Taxidermy & Scoring => Topic started by: blindluck on December 26, 2013, 04:22:07 PM
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Has anyone spray painted their bear skulls in a bronze or copper hammerite type paint and got good results? I'd love to see peoples pics.
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It would probably be a bit difficult to get it to look good and not peel. There is a lot of oil in a skull and the paint would probably have a tendency to lift.
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I paint bones ummmm and skulls....and stuff not sure I have any good pics but let me go dig around and see if I have any pics
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I'm donating a wolf and wolverine bronzed at the sci banquet in lynwood in january
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I paint bones ummmm and skulls....and stuff not sure I have any good pics but let me go dig around and see if I have any pics
hmm, I'd like to see some pics!
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I have a few bear skulls I'm currently degreasing, thought when they are grease free I'd try my hand at painting a copper or bronze look. Any pictures or tips would be awesome.
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Mine are more artsy screwing around with what I can do..... the one little skull I am working on a patina that looks like old worn leather and in person its darn close. I use lots of different things when I make sculptures so my paints arent something specific often I use all sorts of pigments, been having good luck with walnuts on bone and plaster.
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Here's mine. I macerated, peroxided and dried the skull, taped the teeth and then painted the skull with Sculpt Nouveau's Bronze metal coating. It's real metal flake in the paint which when dried is a true layer of metal over the object - skull in this case. The C type coating allows you to sand and polish as you would any metal casting. Pretty cool stuff. I bronzed and put a patina on this skull. I was a little heavy on the patina - I'll thin and use less next time. Providing a link to a site that has done alot of this using copper, nickel, bronze etc.
http://www.sculptnouveau.com/ (http://www.sculptnouveau.com/)
http://www.skulltaxidermy.com/brnzskulls.html (http://www.skulltaxidermy.com/brnzskulls.html)
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bone is very porous so I am finding it takes almost anything I can do with plaster, I intend to try some more metallic stuff some day when I can afford the mediums I want to work with. that is cool I will have to look into that coating but still wanna work with more traditional metal flake as well...
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those are cool! I have been beading one, (interrupted by hunting season) ...must get back to it..
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Annette, are you glueing direct to the skull or using the wax base method? The first time I saw that done was by Jana Waller who I believe uses the wax. Make sure to post a picture when you're done - would be great to see.
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Pygmy the method you used look great!!
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Pygmy the method you used look great!!
Thanks. Nice cougar in your avatar.
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That looks fricken awesome Pygmy
