T R A C K ...C A S T S

FOOTPRINT.....CASTS

All footprint casts are life-size from wild, free-roaming animals and come with a written history of the animal, cast surface and location. Each is an exact duplicate and measurements may be made from the cast.

Casts were selected for large size; they are not from average sized animals. They are impressive!

Making the cast involves several stages.

In the field, I locate excellent quality tracks in a fresh mud surface. Into these I pour plaster. The resulting cast is a positive of the foot of the animal, in other words, it is as if the viewer were looking at the bottom of the animal's foot.

Next, a rubber mold is made of the plaster cast. This mold is a negative that looks like a footprint in the ground.

Finally from the rubber mold, a polyurethane cast is made. The final product is a positive which looks like the footprint. The cast is then painted to become a piece of art work and a thing of beauty both in the natural history it shows and simply as art.

All casts were made by myself, Jim Halfpenny.

15% discount when ordering all four cast - go to the bottom of the page.