First Green River fish prep

[Fossil Claw]

I bought this 18 inch layer in March of 2016 from Blake.  @FossilDudeCO

 

Finally felt comfortable enough with the air scribe and micro air abrader to tackle it.  looks like I might have found a bit of coprolite in there too.

 

  Needs a little bit more final clean up work but I am pretty happy with the way it turned out for my first one.

 

[Kane]

Good work -- and especially for it being your first go at it.  Seems like you really made this one pop!

The possible coprolite is definitely an added bonus. 

[Tidgy's Dad]

That looks great! 

Good job! 

And hurrah for the coprolite! 

[SailingAlongToo]

The fish looks awesome!  You should be proud. . 

 

I just don't have the patience to do that type of detail work. Thank goodness my buddy @Daleksec will prep anything and everything for me, for a nominal fee of course.

 

That green ink scale cube from @aerogrower is quite the looker too!

[Pagurus]

NIce work, Dom. Coprolites seem to be pretty common in that layer. The couple of slabs I got from Blake also had them. It's pretty cool uncovering a fish hiding in the rock, isn't it?!

[Fossil Claw]

8 minutes ago, Pagurus said:

NIce work, Dom. Coprolites seem to be pretty common in that layer. The couple of slabs I got from Blake also had them. It's pretty cool uncovering a fish hiding in the rock, isn't it?!

Yes,now I need to do another one

[smt126]

Great job for a first prep. I've got one sitting around that I've been waiting to prep as well for the first time. I can only hope mine comes out close to as well as this one did.

[RJB]

Uh oh,,, your first prep job.  The disease has started. 

 

RB

[Ptychodus04]

That’s a good first prep @Fossil Claw. Don’t give up yet, there’s more caudal fin to be revealed under that matrix.

 

I circled bits I can see poking out in red and the lines approximate the extent of the caudal fin for reference. An unintended result is the face. 

 

This is way better than my first prep.

[Fossil Claw]

14 hours ago, Ptychodus04 said:

That’s a good first prep @Fossil Claw. Don’t give up yet, there’s more caudal fin to be revealed under that matrix.

 

I circled bits I can see poking out in red and the lines approximate the extent of the caudal fin for reference. An unintended result is the face. 

 

This is way better than my first prep.

Thank you!

[ynot]

Nice first (fish) prepp.

[Barby]

Agreed--a great first prep!

And--- you have the eye in the orbit---so many of these fish lose that bit to the OTHER side. Beautiful!