>>1321185>As for taxidermy, you should be okay with spray foam, you usually don't put taxidermied stuff places with rodent problems to start with.I was just curious. Of course, I don't store my stuff where mice can get to it, but I'd rather not be doing something dumb should it be stored in a place where mice happen to be (though I don't have any place I have to worry about that). You use borax, permerthin, and other stuff to protect against bugs, so why use something mice want to chew on?
>The rodents completely annihilated the spray foam before they even got up there while the EPS was completely untouched.That just reminded me of something. Those huge rigid foam sheets at Lowes/Home Depot are very cheap compared to anywhere else you can buy foam from. Gluing portions of EPS/rigid foam together should work fine for me. Only thing I like about the spray foam more is that it's way smaller to store since it's in a can before you use it. I've found, though, that the center of spray foam blobs contain a huge hole, around 1-2" in height, at least when you try to make a blob/block out of it. I don't even try to make anything big. Just a squirrel sized block, oversized by about 2-3x, depending on how sure I am about the pose and where I need foam. I have a smaller one too; not sure how that turned out.
I found buying foam to be a bad solution, at least for now. I found I'm a terrible sculptor, at least while using foam blocks. Air dry foam "clay" (or some other product) might be better for me. I might think better making something by adding instead of carving away foam; I'm not sure. At this point, I'm tempted to just buy a form to make it easier for myself, though one squirrel from alone costs ~$35. You can usually chop those forms up and re-pose them to something you like more, which sounds much better than making my own. I'm tempted to get one and "clone" it using epoxy, fiberglass, and the spray foam I have left over. Who knows; I might try that.
