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Community => Taxidermy & Scoring => Topic started by: huntinkid20 on April 06, 2012, 08:47:02 PM

Title: Homemade plaque
Post by: huntinkid20 on April 06, 2012, 08:47:02 PM: I got my 2011 Wyoming archery trophies mounted up. I started with a scrap piece of MDF board i had in the garage. I used a sawzall and a dremel too to create knots and some faux wood grain. I them used some left over spray paint from a gun stock to give it an old barnwood look. I used a rag to wipe the paint after each coat for desired effect. I found some rusty old nails my dad had in the drawers of the garage and threw those on too! I only had to purchase some 1.5" flat stock to bend some brackets to hold the mounts. The misc bolts and screws i already had. The entire project took an evening after work. Let me know what you think!
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Post by: seth30 on April 06, 2012, 08:49:57 PM: Wow I like that! I bet that will start a lot of conversations in your home. :tup:
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on April 06, 2012, 08:52:22 PM: Looks great :tup:
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Post by: Jason on April 06, 2012, 08:52:37 PM: Looks good :tup:
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Post by: woodman on April 06, 2012, 08:57:53 PM: I think it looks great. I love it when a person take time to create something instead of just watching tv.
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on April 06, 2012, 09:00:03 PM: I think it looks great! ! !
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Post by: scottfrick on April 06, 2012, 09:10:34 PM: :tup: Looks really good!
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Post by: huntinkid20 on April 06, 2012, 09:28:09 PM: Thanks everyone! I was pretty happy with how it turned out as well :IBCOOL:
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Post by: bucklucky on April 06, 2012, 09:42:29 PM: Good idea! Looks good!
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Post by: Elkstuffer on April 06, 2012, 09:45:47 PM: Very Nice! You look to be pretty artistic. Even more impressive is the pronghorn you killed with your bow. I've been on 3 archery hunts for pronghorn and have come up empty each time. They were all spot and stalk hunts in MT. Time to give WY a try.
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Post by: BullMagnet76 on April 06, 2012, 09:47:17 PM: Looks pretty Sweet!!! :tup:
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Post by: johnnyaustin44 on April 06, 2012, 10:26:28 PM: Looks awesome :tup:
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Post by: fair-chase on April 06, 2012, 10:39:50 PM: Looks great, and bonus points for creativity. Good job. :tup:
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Post by: ICEMAN on April 07, 2012, 06:02:39 AM: Very cool!
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Post by: WCTaxidermy on April 07, 2012, 07:57:08 AM: Now that looks awesome. Those mounts are very nice as well.......John
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Post by: FSTaxidermy on April 07, 2012, 08:10:25 AM: Very creative work ! looks great :tup:
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Post by: JohnVH on April 07, 2012, 08:22:48 AM: awesome!
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Post by: wolfie on April 07, 2012, 10:03:56 AM: that looks real good!
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Post by: bucklucky on April 07, 2012, 10:08:19 AM: I have a hard time beleiving it was a chunk of MDF though :chuckle: How the heck do you get a peice of fiber board to look like that , you need to do another one with pictures of your process :drool: Again , nice job.
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Post by: wraithen on April 07, 2012, 10:10:18 AM: Man I wish I could get something to look like that. I could use real wood and it would still look like some 10 year olds experiment.
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Post by: doyourtime89 on April 07, 2012, 10:14:27 AM: That looks awesome!! Great job!! :tup:
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Post by: PolarBear on April 07, 2012, 10:14:49 AM: :tup:
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Post by: boneaddict on April 07, 2012, 01:35:23 PM: Very creative. Nice idea.
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Post by: kyle78 on April 07, 2012, 02:00:54 PM: You might be able to market something like that. Looks great.
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Post by: huntinkid20 on April 07, 2012, 09:44:36 PM: Here ya go bucklucky :chuckle: I didnt paint the back so i took it off the wall to show its REAL mdf. I had extra pieces after a custom fit speaker enclosure i built for my tacoma. [smg id=11442]
Here is a picture of the brackets i built to hold the skulls in place as well. Its very similar to the skull hooker, but cheap and DIY![smg id=11444]
And a picture just after i painted it.[smg id=11445]
Thanks for all the good comments!
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Post by: bucklucky on April 07, 2012, 09:48:18 PM: Who would have thunk MDF could look like that :chuckle:
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Post by: hunting4sanity on April 07, 2012, 10:51:40 PM: Looks very good! Makes me wish I had some talent. :bash: