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Community => Taxidermy & Scoring => Topic started by: Ray on June 13, 2010, 08:07:01 PM

Title: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
Post by: Ray on June 13, 2010, 08:07:01 PM: Still drying. They had a large degree of discoloring from the beetle festival. I'm not a pro. When the paint dries it doesn't look as shiny.

Should be able to get it on a plaque later this week. :dunno:

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Title: Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
Post by: rasbo on June 13, 2010, 08:10:12 PM: that looks great Ray...flat plaque?
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on June 13, 2010, 08:11:42 PM: yeah looks like you did a fine job :tup:
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Post by: Ray on June 13, 2010, 08:12:09 PM: My neighbor is making plaques. I asked if he could get one of those that makes an angle.
Title: Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
Post by: rasbo on June 13, 2010, 08:17:38 PM: Quote from: Ray on June 13, 2010, 08:12:09 PM
My neighbor is making plaques. I asked if he could get one of those that makes an angle.
those are good looking forsure..bucklucky I think had some mounted on that style that looked great..Not sure if he orders them or makes them
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Post by: Huntbear on June 13, 2010, 08:30:01 PM: Dang Ray, your reloading bench gets used for many things. Mine does too. :chuckle:

Nice set of Horns. Should look real cool on a plaque.
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on June 13, 2010, 09:04:18 PM: Ray did you use Burnt Umber?
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Post by: Ray on June 13, 2010, 09:12:48 PM: Yes, burnt umber. I did a patch yesterday and let it dry. Looked good to me. Takes a long time to dry.
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on June 14, 2010, 09:32:04 AM: Ray I would go back over it with some Black Umber. They are a little to brown.

Here is a quick pic that I have. I didn't color these. Only thing I did was touch up the base to match the rest of the horn.

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi126.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fp115%2Fmichellestaxidermy%2F2-1.jpg&hash=798b5f070634afb9d82d68d713526a014ac93885)
Title: Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
Post by: Ray on June 14, 2010, 09:34:48 AM: Black does look good. I have to disagree that they are too brown. In fact they are now much darker than the horns originally were. I've seen a few pronghorns on here that I felt were too black on the horns. No discredit as the taxidermists were great.

I'm going to wait until they dry before I decide if I will make another pass at painting them.
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Post by: bow4elk on June 14, 2010, 09:37:27 AM: Are you using acrylic paint? I have a buck I'd like to re-color like that. Looks pretty nice and easy to do.
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Post by: Ray on June 14, 2010, 09:38:29 AM: It's an oil paint. It is easy to do. Therefore if I want to recolor again it should not be too difficult.
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on June 14, 2010, 09:40:45 AM: Oil Paint. You can pick them up at most craft stores. Micheals and Jo-Anns should carry them.
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Post by: bow4elk on June 14, 2010, 09:59:11 AM: Thanks - apply with a soft brush for hte heavy textured areas and maybe wipe to blend into the tops?
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Post by: Ray on June 14, 2010, 10:14:56 AM: I think that could work. I've just used a small and narrow brush. Getting into the grooves seemed an easier task with a smaller brush.
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Post by: robb92 on June 15, 2010, 06:15:08 PM: Looks very nice!!!!
Title: Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
Post by: Ray on June 15, 2010, 06:15:55 PM: I had the paint dry. They do look a bit too brown. But I am going to go with it that way anyhow. I don't really care.

Thanks for the nice comments.
Title: Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
Post by: bucklucky on June 15, 2010, 06:49:44 PM: Ive never painted any of my pronghorn horns. Mine are all done natural. How did your lose color Ray?
Title: Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
Post by: Ray on June 15, 2010, 07:25:16 PM: It seems like the horns got wet somehow when the beetles were chewing on the flesh. So they laid wet for a long time is my guess. That caused a great deal of discoloration on one particular horn.
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Post by: bucklucky on June 15, 2010, 07:53:37 PM: Gotcha. I always swetted the horns off before I bugged the pronghorns . Makes sence to me now.
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Post by: Gringo31 on June 15, 2010, 10:14:49 PM: I used black shoe polish on the ones I did....the kind you turn upside down and squeeze with the foam tip on them (if that makes sense). It was easy to apply and I think they look good. Actually, half way thru this post I did a double check, they are blacker than the taxidermy mount I was given.

Here is a pic of the ones I did for reference. :dunno:

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi178.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fw252%2FDirtydog_pics%2FDSCF0220.jpg&hash=3df4b84fef89584d728be8bc067938cac8c594c2)
Title: Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on June 16, 2010, 01:36:50 AM: Ray did the pronghorn sheaths get mold on them? I have found when horns or antlers develop mold when allowed to sweat that will discolor them.
Title: Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
Post by: KNOPHISH on June 16, 2010, 06:10:12 AM: Here's my 1st attemp & a crappy cell phone pic, The horns were also kinda brown & dry. I put some mink oil on em.
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Post by: Ray on June 16, 2010, 06:13:25 AM: That looks nice. I am getting one that hangs off a wall at an angle like that.
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Post by: Pathfinder101 on June 16, 2010, 05:44:09 PM: Looks great Ray! Pronghorn Euros look cool. :tup:
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on June 16, 2010, 05:49:36 PM: yeah that mount looks nice hope we draw mt and i can do one like that
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Post by: cohoho on June 20, 2010, 04:21:49 PM: Hey Ray --- AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHH! AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH! Can't keep from laughing everytime I hear that sound in my head... BTW- Horns look great....
Title: Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
Post by: Ray on June 25, 2010, 06:20:03 PM: Cohoho, Yeah that son of a gun just realized he had been tagged and I am sure he felt that sting! LOL

I decided to leave the horns dark brown. We used my friend's drill press and put dowels onto this mounting plaque setup which I picked up from my neighbor. I could either leave it as a table mount or turn the dowel and hang it on the wall. I drilled a couple of small holes near the base of the skull and set some drywall screws down to hold the skull to the plaque.

All done..

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Post by: markts on June 25, 2010, 06:29:39 PM: Looks great :)
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Post by: Pathfinder101 on June 28, 2010, 03:29:35 PM: Nice final product! :tup: