Lion Taxidermy Pictures

[Warbird782]

Members,
I need your help. Please post pics of full body lion mounts. I will be hunting a lioness in March and I am trying to find the right mount for her. I am looking for aggressive poses but not finding exactly what I want. I have looked at all the big studios web pages and they look ok but just not the right pose. I would just like to see what you guys have.

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Warbird782]

This is the closest to what I would like that I could find.

 

[Royal27]

Dave,

Have you seen the one that was just put up by Relive on FB?

 

[Royal27]

Here it is.

 

[Deleted member 15212]

wow wow wow!!^^^

 

[hunteratheart]

My lioness is being worked on by Critter Creations in PA and will be similar to above poses. I'll have to see if Steve can give me a pic or two of the in process work. She'll be on a rock base, basically pouncing/leaping with front legs extending/reaching out. We were debating just one back leg down and I'll have to see what he decided and came out with.
Remember, a good taxidermist can cut and reshape any of the forms into poses you want. The biggest will be getting a close starting form as lioness' seem limited in sizes/poses to begin with

 

[BnC 04]

Mine is a non aggresive pose, semi relaxed mouth, while standing on a Impala ram.

 

[CAustin]

She is being done by Mike Smith at Capricorn Taxidermy in Polokwane RSA. This is how she presented to me when I took the shot.

 

[Deleted member 15212]

great looking lionesses!

 

[CAustin]

Thank you Deleted member 15212. I look forward to getting her back to the states.

 

[harden]

Not agressive , just doing what lioness' do most of the time....

Not a lionesss but THIS is aggressive ....

Not aggressive....

WARBIRD, Just because you can't find one get what you want, work with a taxidermist that can make any pose you choose. Why copy some one else's. We work with clients all the time making custom poses, you need skill and artistic ability to do it. How it works? You talk to me and show me what you are thinking of. show me a few pics That gets me into your head and on the same page. I email clients pictures of the manakin being altered and posed. YOU have input thru these pics and tell us as sculptors what you like and what you'd like changed. Am movement, change the rear legs, turn lift or lower the head etc. We change it till you like it and it's right. THEN and only then does the skin go on the form and it's mounted. If you would like to work on this we would be happy to make any lioness in any pose you can show me EVEN a live picture and we copy the anatomy in your mount.

 

[Warbird782]

I like the sleeping lioness. I do want one in a pose that when a person rounds the corner into my man cave/trophy room it looks like it is going to pounce. Either like the first photo I posted or on all fours snarling with tail wild in the air.

 

[harden]

NO problem, we take the pic of the one you posted and make a lioness like that . That ones head is to striaght for me if you doing it around a corner, I would like to see the floor plan and then would know how much curve to put in the body the make it more lifelike and really moving toward the person entering the room. I would make the mount a little lower and make the head actually looking more down thru the center of it's paws that's where it's going to grab your guest....

 

[harden]

The floor mount standing on all 4's isn't going to give the shock and awe effect I thing your looking for. I would stay up on 2 legs that gives the mount movement and speed and a real attack scenario.

 

[Roseman]

 

[harden]

STANDING GUARD .....

 

[hunteratheart]

Keep in mind that to get the best effect, you really should be looking at it eye level. Unless the base is high, down on all fours just does not give the effect of looking it in the eye!

 

[harden]

I do not believe this is true in my mounts anyway.
That is like saying a lion can't look you in eyes unless he's standing on a 2 foot high rock.
I'm 6' 1" and took this picture standing up in front of him 5 feet away from this lion that is only on a base 4" off the floor.
He has plenty of eye to eye contact.

It's all about eye rotation and sight angle. I've mounted cats lying on the floor that look you straight in the eye when you are standing just feet in front of them and have done them on ledges 12 feet above the floor with the same eye to eye contact when standing in front of the mount and your looking up at them.

 

[Royal27]

I do not believe this is true in my mounts anyway.
That is like saying a lion can't look you in eyes unless he's standing on a 2 foot high rock.
I'm 6' 1" and took this picture standing up in front of him 5 feet away from this lion that is only on a base 4" off the floor.
He has plenty of eye to eye contact.

It's all about eye rotation and sight angle. I've mounted cats lying on the floor that look you straight in the eye when you are standing just feet in front of them and have done them on ledges 12 feet above the floor with the same eye to eye contact when standing in front of the mount and your looking up at them.

Dennis,

Your detail never ceases to amazero me....

 

[ActionBob]

I have a painting where I swear the eyes of the animal in the middle follow you as your walk by.