Trophy Room......Finally Finished......Last Pics

smelly pete said:
Take a digital picture of the wall "as is", and shuffle the mounts around to your liking on your computer monitor? Would save forklift fuel...

The room looks amazing, thank you for posting.



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That would be truly awesome...................but I haven't got a clue how to do it. Those are digital photos............Forklift is electric, remember I'm a lifetime electrician.........what else would I have?
I'm going to have some serious patching of holes before I have it the way I like it........I can see that already........


jjohn.............I got about as much concept of "feng shui" as a Hereford bull


'Looky, what the hell are you talking about..........spinners? Giraffe ears...........I don't see no giraffes yet..........sometimes you're even too cryptic for me to grasp.............
 
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c-fbmi said:
Not happy with my large ungulate wall..........doesn't look right to me.........any suggestions??????????
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I am assuming you are talking about the L shaped wall above/to left of Bar ...The spacing is thrown off by the rather massive antlers of the Elk/Boo/Moose.

May want to consider placing animals with short antlers/horns on the first line below ceiling. I don't know if you are planning more mounts there but you could always draw out the exact space on the floor (large sheets of paper) and placing them there to figure out the spacing. Photoshop skills would be the ultimate as you can take individual pictures of the mounts and drag and drop to the space to maximize the spacing.

In the end, it will be trial and error... Don't forget, It is YOUR trophy room :)
 
c-fbmi said:
Not happy with my large ungulate wall..........doesn't look right to me.........any suggestions??????????
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I see what you're saying. The Bison and the Muskox seem odd. Another thing I noticed is the left caribou is hung slightly lower than the right.

Might I suggest moving the elk up to the top row, or at least as high as they can. This will force you to not 'jam' other mounts right up against the ceiling. All the mounts look great though and I'd love to have a tour of that room sometime and hear some of the stories associated with it.
 
c-fbmi said:
That would be truly awesome...................but I haven't got a clue how to do it. Those are digital photos............Forklift is electric, remember I'm a lifetime electrician.........what else would I have?
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Sorry, should have added a :p after the forklift fuel thing...
If you're uncomfortable with Photoshop or other editing programs, how about snapping individual pictures and printing them, then shuffling them around on a whiteboard?

....Or move the Musk Ox and Bison down to form a bottom border of large mounts, and intersperse the various deer (is there another way to describe them?) above them?
....Or move the three....cow like...mounts to the perpendicular wall, and make the wall with the Moose just about racks?

The joys of organising a hard-won collection for proper visuals:).
 
c-fbmi;13164852 Not happy with my large ungulate wall..........doesn't look right to me.........any suggestions??????????[/QUOTE said:
I think the mounts look great, have you thought to perhaps break up the white walls with some nice oak panels and trim ... IMO a little wood trim gives a comforting feel to any room and would really complement the mounts :)
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The half wall with 6 mounts what is the bottom row center. Has spots and long narrow antlers. The 5 th picture posted its between the 2 whitetails on the floor almost the center
 
BB...........that guy is tiger food...........Axis deer from India, originally.............that one migrated to Texas and then to Canada............Ah sh!t, that reminds me I have 3 more mounts sitting in Texas..........Scimitar horned oryx, North African Addax and an Indian nilgai. F**k...F**K...F**K, where am I going to fit them in my scheme of things..........



Anyway, no forklift operator today as he has school, but I did some balancing on the African wall with a step ladder........wife critiqued it, and I changed it..........What do you all think?????????????







I felt I had too much mass on the left side of the room so I swapped out the black and white springbok for the two wildebeest and moved the Hartebeest over and put the 3 springbok together.

And here is my 6 of the tiny ten........I have seven but you all know what happened to my blue duiker in the Congo........

 
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smelly pete said:
Sorry, should have added a :p after the forklift fuel thing...
If you're uncomfortable with Photoshop or other editing programs, how about snapping individual pictures and printing them, then shuffling them around on a whiteboard?

....Or move the Musk Ox and Bison down to form a bottom border of large mounts, and intersperse the various deer (is there another way to describe them?) above them?
....Or move the three....cow like...mounts to the perpendicular wall, and make the wall with the Moose just about racks?

The joys of organising a hard-won collection for proper visuals:).
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That's a good plan, I'm gonna try that and see how I like it...............Thanks.
 
I thought axis deer had thicker antlers. More like a fallow deer. I do like the look of it. Thanks for clarifying
Any plans to complete the tinys?
Have you taken all of the spiral horned antelopes?
 
BB.........nope, the axis only usually gets 6 points total 3X3 but he is not a big one..........he's the one I got though. Spiral horns I'm missing a few, the lesser kudu, sitatunga and of course I have no mount of my bongo.......not sure if I missed any..........I do plan to do Tanzania for the lesser kudu and the gazelles I don't have and gerenuk.........supposed to get sitatunga in Congo but didn't work out........just as well, it would have been just another lost trophy. I'd like to finish the tiny 10 one day, not too strenuous for an old man. ;);)

Oh and there are about 5 different bush buck so I only have two, Chobe and Limpopo
 
Looks like you've got the "Small Five" sorted out there.

edit - I see you are past that and looking towards the Tiny Ten. Perhaps a .270 Win would be sufficient for that caliber of quarry.
 
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