d'awwwww, lookit the precious :3

He is very cute, the eyes are huge :P

Wow, out of the ones you posted I think this lil guy is my fave, this lil one or Jona :3 What did you use for eyes? and how did you tan these guys?

I so want to see more of your taxidermy :3 I loves it <3

Awww The eyes here are black Sculpey with a thick clear lacquer coat over them, and the skin was tanned just by scraping it and storing it in a jar of methylated spirits for a while. After a couple days it's tanned, but I can store the skins like that indefinitely.
I'll have to hurry up and do more then :) <3

no way~! I was thinking you must have found some wicked glass eyes or something somewhere, but damn! that really works :D

Hmmm, metho, I'm gonna have to try that! Atmo i've been messing with rolling it up in borax, buuut failing, keep getting hair slip (kept derping up a few things, know what I did wrong roughly) I'm gonna have to try the metho though, because these lil guys look fantastic :D

I'm a master of reappropriating random materials :P

The trick is you gotta scrape the skins free of fat and sinew and crud, and make sure it's kept cold as possible. If you can get away with it, try putting the borax and skin in a plastic bag in the fridge, sometimes that helps. If skinning is taking a long time, stick the whole thing in a freezer for 20 minutes every half hour, that should fix your hairslip problems. Usually it's just too much heat while skinning/tanning :)
Hope that helps!

I love metho; it'll work for birds and mammals up to the size of a fox, helps strip off dermal fat and oils, requires little effort, dries hard so it's perfect for taxidermy (cleaves right up to the form).

Yeah I suuuuck at scraping everything off >.> I just havn't found anything that really works nicely to get it all off. Will have to do the freezer thing for lager things :3 Oooh, and I'm getting a fox on Sunday :3 Someone I know ended up trapping/shooting it because it kept taking out his chickens and he didn't want it going to waste.

Totally trying that :D I actually have two rat skins in metho now xD Hopefully these guys will turn out alright compared to the others xD!

A very sharp knife with a slightly bowed blade (think a paring knife with the end filed down), held at 90 degrees and scraped over the skin from head to tail will do just fine It's tough work on big skins and very fat things, but it's gotta be done if you want it to turn out awesome.

Oooh, you lucky thing! I have a fox skin in metho right now, we should compare the two when we're done

Best of luck with those! And I demand photos of all of it XD

Hmmm, Might have to see what I can get x3! I got this thing in a tanning kit (it seriously looks like a mini rake, its retarded) and it failed to do anything lol

Haha yours is going to be better xP guaranteed!

:3 there will be pics! just for youuuu x3 xD

I got one of those too, from a Leder tanning kit XD They're really only good for the meat species skins, like cowhide sheepskin etc. It tears the hell out of smaller things. So I got a random paring knife from an op shop, scraped the point on the concrete until it was rounded, then sharpened the hell out of it till it was razor-sharp :P
Hahaha thanks for the vote of confidence :P
Yay! I is speshul! :D

yeah thats the one I got, how did the tanning kit turn out for you? haha I might steal your idea with the paring knife xD or see if I can find something similar at least, might poke around tomorrow after work, because the thing I got in the tanning kit was so damn useless lol
x3 I seriously cant wait to see what you do next though, you've come a long way with your taxidermy :3

Well, it's really pretty good so long as you follow the instructions (including the instructions they don't include O_0), basically it's just a chrome tanning liquid. If you leave out the salt it'll turn things green, if you don't scrape the skins well enough it'll be greasy, if you don't break it enough after you put on that lube stuff it'll be stiff. But it's good for clothing leather and wallhanger-grade skins, I haven't used it for taxidermy yet though because of the expense. You're supposed to mix it all up and do 6 kilos of skins at once, but I screwed that up so I've only got enough for 1.5 kilos left.
Aaww thanks hun ^_^ Next is a few more bunnies, another rat and three birds.

xD yeah, I failed miserably with it, greasy, stiff, and generally a strange colour leather (I know I left it in too long, but yeah, I havn't found something yet that does really nice soft skins that don't fall apart that I can put over things.) But yeah, its so expensive >.> compared to some of the other stuff xD and yeah, I did one skin, rather than the 6 haha.

x3!! cant waiiiiit :D!

Oh no! Angel and Pearl are sad that he died "tweet' :(

I was sad he died too, I'm always sad when my critters die :(
But, once I'm over the initial grief stages, I try to always save what I can to immortalise them in a way. Might not make sense to most people, but it makes sense to me, to want to keep your pets around you :)

Thanks. Angel and Pearl give you a big, squishy, fluffy hug and lots of kisses to make you happy "tweet" ^_^