" I enjoy enhancing things that are already present rather than covering them up.  For example:  The buck mounted in the shed horn scene above shows wounds and battle scars.  Reflecting what happens during a full season of rutting.  I think it tells a more complete story when those fresh scars and scrapes are put back in,  rather then repaired,  to look as if they were never there.

 

Showing off those little imperfections makes for a more realistic mount.  It gives you a little peek of  the character of that perticular animal.  Split ears,  nicks,  cuts,  rubbed spots,  all little pieces of a story that makes that animal who he is.  Why hide it?  I say if you got it flaunt it!"