In this issue’s article I will take you through my ideas and methods for making this habitat base with my goal of producing it as close as possible to the habitat of the location in Colorado where I killed my mule deer. I had taken a lot of photos of the flora and rocks for reference as well as bringing home some of the grasses and native bushes. The cacti of the area that I brought home had shrunk and dried so much I decided not to mold them, so I used it as reference and sculpted them in clay, casted replicas, and added the details of the cacti.
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