Interesting Projects

18 Foot Tall Mountain & African Diorama

This 18 foot tall mountain was built off site in sections, transported to the client's room and reassembled. The assembly time on site was only 2 days! There are several spots left on the mountain for future mounts. There will eventually be about 10 animals in total. The African diorama was done in a similar fashion as the mountain. It was built off site, brought in and assembled in 2 days. These two pieces certainly made a major transformation to this trophy room!

"Grand Slam Mountain!"

Here's a diorama we recently finished. Getting the "Grand Slam" of North American Wild Sheep is a feat not many hunters achieve. It is an extreme physical and financial commitment. It's a good feeling knowing that someone will trust such a project to us... from designing the base to fit in a limited area to posing the mounts in a unique, appealing way to delivery and set up in a quick, clean fashion. It's an even better feeling to see the satisfaction in the face of the hunter when it's all done!

African Savannah Diorama

This scene is 22 x 16. It is a work in progress as we will be adding more mounts in the coming months and years as they have more successful hunts! As most of our other large diorama projects, they are constructed off site, disassembled and then reassembled in the clients home. This one only took one day to assemble in their home! **Update** This trophy room is a "work in progress"! We have now built a "tie-in" diorama to join the jungle and savannah scenes. We have also added a number of animals to the scenes as well as the walls including a cape buffalo grouping with wall habitat. This has been and interesting, challenging and personally rewarding trophy room to work with!

There we thre are Guineafowl in the scene.

Central African Jungle Diorama

Our prior project for this client was a large, African savannah diorama (above). The most recent one fits in right next to the previous one. This is primarily a central African jungle scene (on the right side) which transitions into an east African savannah. In the future, we will be adding a giant forest hog, two Hamadryas baboons and two colobus monkeys to the left side of the scene. When we completed this, we also added a Hyena and a Jackal to the larger scene.

The animals in the jungle scene kind of blend in. You have to look closely to see them all. They are, starting with the largest one and going clockwise, Bongo, Sitatunga, Bates's Pygmy Antelope, Peter's Duiker and Blue Duiker. These are some very unique animals for us to work on as they are only hunted in a limited area where their population allows it. These were all taken in Cameroon.

These two projects have required a lot of effort from design, to construction and finally delivery and set up. It is however, very rewarding to see the final product!

Client's Trophy Room

This is a client's trophy room we have been working on for a few years. The clients (husband and wife) came up with some basic ideas they would like to see. We created sketches showing ways that we could accomplish their needs. The end results (which aren't really "end" results as they continue to hunt!) have proven to be very satisfying to them as well as our staff! The dioramas are all on recessed casters so that they sit just barely above the carpet nap and can be easily moved for cleaning as well as making room for additional mounts.

Lifesize Mounts on a Compact Base

Here is a very compact way to show three lifesize mounts on a fairly compact base. The "footprint" of the base is about the same size as one large lifesize mount. This whole piece is quite manageable with regards to transport. It was done in 5 removable parts (tree, base, 3 animals) and the entire piece fit into a full size pickup truck with topper.

Office Mountain

Below are pictures of what I call "Office Mountain" because it was built in our studio, disassembled, and transported to the client's business office. It was then reassembled including putting the sheep on the mountain, ALL within two hours! If you have any questions please feel free to contact us today!