I have had work done by a couple of the top studios and the service has sucked. They are so preoccupied with museum pieces for primarily Chinese museums that they don’t care about one off clients.

I switched to splitting image taxidermy on 5e last few trips. Service is really good.they will get you a full quote and ask for a power f attorney so you don’t have to be copied on 20emails between the shipper, I porter, pack/dip and taxidermist. The service is door to door. Africa to you.

http://www.splittingimagetaxidermy.co.za

They have a studio in RSA, Europe and Houston in the USA. If you get the mounts done in Africa, faster and less expensive then you have a problem, the studio here will fix it. I had a mount damaged in transit and they sent a taxidermist to my home to do the repair!