🦁 Over the past few weeks, our workshop has started to look a little like a lion pride.
One lion in the finishing room. Another just a few metres away. A lioness in the early stages of being “dressed” in her skin. Another nearly finished. Walking through our workshop this week, you might start to wonder whether you are still in a taxidermy studio in South Moravia or somewhere out in the African bush.
In a short space of time, we have had several lions and lionesses reach the final stages of completion.
And with big cats in particular, you can clearly see just how many details determine the final result. Correctly fitting the skin over the form is not enough. Expression is created in millimetres. The position of the eyes, the shape of the eyelids, the line of the mouth, the placement of the ears, the whiskers, the work with the fur and the overall carriage of the head. A tiny deviation is all it takes for a majestic predator to become something that may resemble a lion, but lacks life and character.
We will leave it to you to judge how well we are doing.
In the photographs, you can see part of this journey – from works in progress covered with pins and temporary fixings to finished lions and lionesses already waiting for their owners.
Most of these lions were hunted with Franc Hunting Safaris, and we are proud that with us, the journey to a trophy can both begin and end in one place – from planning the African safari and the hunt itself to trophy transport and final taxidermy.
One team. One journey. One outstanding result!
