HABITATS

I DON'T KNOW OF ANYONE WHO WOULDN'T WANT to improve his work, especially if he could do it quickly and with little time and expense. When it comes to habitat, realism is the name of the game. The more realistic you can make it, the more impressive and desirable it becomes, and the price you get for it should be commensurate with the quality of the work. The better it is, the more you should charge. Some of you have already learned that you can make more money with habitats than you can with the taxidermy work, and do so with the expenditure of a lot less time, effort and materials. The addition of some veining and perhaps a geode to artificial rocks can increase their realism significantly.

Before getting into how to do this, let me give you a brief summary of veins and geodes, just in case you were absent from school on the day the subject was covered or you happened to be dozing off at the time. A geode is a nodule of stone, having a cavity lined with crystals or mineral matter, and...

...Continued in the Winter 2003 Issue of Breakthrough.

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