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Post by fishhead on Feb 1, 2008 12:16:00 GMT -5
I just put these eyes in this pike and as I am looking at my reference of a pike eye I see that there is not much of a gap between the eye and the socket.As you can see there is a large gap on my fish.What am I doing wrong? This is happening on all my fish. I even have some reference pictures of other taxidermists eyes and theirs are just like the real thing with hardly any gap between the eye and the socket. Reference picture. Now my eyes.
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Post by cecil on Feb 1, 2008 15:43:28 GMT -5
Fishhead,
You simply need to sculpt in a groove around the eye with a modeling tool if you want to duplicate the original eye oribit. What you need to model in is the scelratic capsal. (sp?) I will see if I can take some close up pics on a pike I will be working on next week.
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Post by weasel on Feb 1, 2008 15:51:24 GMT -5
wish i could do fish.....
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Post by cecil on Feb 1, 2008 15:56:57 GMT -5
wish i could do fish..... Why not? Just about anything can be learned if you set your mind to it, and go about getting as much knowledge as possible to reach your goal.
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Post by fishhead on Feb 1, 2008 22:34:39 GMT -5
Cecil is right. I never thought I could do fish and now I get better at it with every fish I do. All I did was get the Breakthrough Fish Manual and went from there. I would not be where I am now if it was not for all the other great fish taxidermists helping me out with a problem. wish i could do fish..... Why not? Just about anything can be learned if you set your mind to it, and go about getting as much knowledge as possible to reach your goal.
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Post by fishhead on Feb 4, 2008 14:56:15 GMT -5
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Post by cecil on Feb 5, 2008 7:11:21 GMT -5
They look fine to me for commericial work other than maybe tilted in the front a little more than I would do. Maybe cut in a crease to separate the sceral band from the eye orbit although I don't always do that with commerical work. Funny thing about fish eyes... They vary in the depth they are in the eye socket from species to species and fish to fish unlike mammals. I've seen some really buggy eyed fish like the one below. I've also seen eyes flush with the eye socket especially in northern pike. The brown trout's eyes below are almost flush. Add to that a fish can move it's eye independently of each other. Do you have Tom Sexton's Fish Finishing manual? He coveres setting eyes in a bass in detail.
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Post by fishhead on Feb 5, 2008 22:51:35 GMT -5
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Post by cecil on Feb 8, 2008 16:57:00 GMT -5
Dude!
You're scaring me! You're picking up things so fast!
Nice!
For commerical work I use flex eyes and don't worry about it.
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