Spent the whole day yesterday cranking out mounts because I had to get all my bodies out of the freezer asap -0- I finished a mouse, a shrew, a rat, and a deer tail, all done with cotton bodies instead of my usual foam. The simple answer to why I switched is that I was running out of foam, but honestly I think I prefer the cotton method more. Happy accidents! I've been able to experiment with more dynamic poses and honestly the rat looks lovely, too bad I'm making it as a gift :'-]. I may have devolved a bit in my degloving method, the mouse tail was completely unsalvageable and I had to reattach the shrew's. The rat tail had no problems but it was also much bigger and harder to mess up, so I'm not giving myself too much credit there. Skinning the rat was such a walk in the park, nice thick skin I didn't need to worry about tearing, but making the mount for it took so long, and even longer to actually make it look passable. And I used up so much cotton to make it too :'''-]