In the final installment of this article series, I will continue going through the World Taxidermy Championships® scoresheet and complete my reference study and discussion of fish anatomy and how it relates to fish taxidermy. We start this article by moving our focus to the accuracy of color of our painted fish. I feel this is a somewhat subjective area of the scoresheet for this reason: if a judge points out that a color is not accurate for a given species, more often than not the competitor will produce a reference photo showing that color scheme. While there are no absolutes as far as color is concerned, there is a range of colors and markings that are considered normal or acceptable.
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