Author Archives: Mike Gadd
LINK: This was my inspiration for the Short-eared Owl Hi I found this great photo of a Short-eared Owl and just had to have a go at reproducing it, taking may precious caucus out started the project I did struggle to get the pose right and as you can see it came close but not close [...]
Nov
This is a Beginner Taxidermy question from Jane "I bought your book 'Beginner Taxidermy - Small Mammal' earlier this year and have found it absolutely invaluable. However, I have one problem which is not addressed in the book and I can find no reference to it elsewhere. I have a background in animal sculpture so [...]
Aug
Fixing bird taxidermy cases and other wall taxidermy mounts on a wall. If you’re like me, continually changing the stock and customer taxidermy items you have on display and find having to do so you need to drill new screws holes into your wall to secure the latest case or mount you’ve created. This was [...]
Mar
Hi All I attended the 2014 UK Guild of Taxidermy Conference again. It is always great to see old friends and meet new members, I like many other UK taxidermists look forward to the annual taxidermy conference meetings and Competitions. Taxidermy Lectures We were expecting the talented German Taxidermist Yvonne who was going to do [...]
Feb
Beginner Taxidermy Critique Critiquing a piece of work One of the most important ways to improve your taxidermy is via a taxidermy critique and to be able to self-critique your own work as you are working on it is the key to improving. This is the main basis of producing a good piece of taxidermy [...]
Jan
The Guild of taxidermy Conference 2013 Held this years conference and competitions again at the hays conference center, The meeting had Carl Church mounting a Buzzard, Pat Morris on Taxidermy History, Steve Toher Fox Manikins, Colin Scott on Groundwork, Kim McDonald on Taxidermy Law, Mike Gadd (me) Did the taxidermy Doctor surgery how to fix problems [...]
Sep
The Guild of Taxidermists held a seminar at Sutton Bonington this is one of the the mid year meeting we have. I did a demonstration on Grey Squirrel Taxidermy to promote the new Book "Beginner Small Mammal Taxidermy " showing the flexibility of woodwool as a manikin medium. There is now an article on the Guild [...]
Aug
This is an article published in the Well known bird breeders and keepers magazine "Cage and Avery Birds" it is just a simple about me and taxidermy article and focuses on UK bird taxidermy. The man who came to do the article Ron was a very knowledgeable person and was good to meet and discuss people [...]
Aug
We had a requested to do a life-size mammoth. The budget was very small and didn’t allow us to use an ideal species of hair as we would have liked and also spend the required time on the project that it realistically needed. This is my excuse the poor quality of the project, but I thought [...]