Mouse Taxidermy

Step 17 Wire the legs

Now find your four pieces of thin wire and a cotton ball.

Unroll the cotton ball, and wrap some of the wispy bits around a leg to simulate the flesh you previously cut off. Be careful not to overstuff, as the leg needs to fit back inside of same skin it came from.

Now take a wire piece, and put one end up against the cut-off end of the leg. Run the wire straight down towards the wrist/ankle to make a brace, then make a U-bend and wrap it around the leg, cotton, and brace on your way back up. Crimp the U-bend just enough to make sure it'll fit into the wrist skin, but be careful not to break the delicate bones.

Leave the long piece of wire poking out for later use.

Repeat this process with the other three legs.

Comments

[blackderby]

I was confused by this step at first. But then reading on you understand what happened here.

[dogisdead]

I'm really confused by this step, could you possibly explain in more detail?

[dream of dmt]

i believe he has left the foot inisde of the pelt, cut off at the ankle. it seems to me that the wire/cotton stuffs are wrapped/tied around the remaining ankle bone.

[Darwinfish]

Looks like he's attaching wires to the original leg bones, then stuffing the bones back into the legs so that the joints are in the right place. The cotton pads it all like muscle, and the wire bends so that you can make your dead mouse into a disco star.

[Rhasputin]

Ditto... I really don't understand what you did here. ):