All Entries (pictured) from the 2024 World Fish Carving Championships® Coralville, Iowa • August 6–11, 2024 To subscribe or renew, visit www.breakthroughmagazine.com or call us at (985) 345-7266.

The skin on a warthog cape will rarely fit properly on most of the forms available from our suppliers. This is especially true with the lip area of warthogs and how this part of the facial anatomy fits around the tusks. Warthogs, as with most species of game animals, are all different and adjustments need to be made. There are a couple of ways you can do this. One way is to...

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...

The purpose of this article is to inspire others to embrace creativity and experiment with different model-making techniques, both among museum model builders and technicians, as well as taxidermists. My philosophy when constructing models of extinct animals is that I should exceed beyond anatomical accuracy. Attention must also be paid to surface textures and execution to...