Painting Foam Restle Coat Mallards

[John Ascherman]

So I'm getting close to painting my first foam, Restle Coated mallards. I was going to go to Harbor Freight and buy a spray paint for hobby. The small pencil sprayer. Understand, I am not a artist. I'm looking for the decoys to look decent. In the future, maybe touching up my plastic decoys. Maybe I should just stay with brushes? I went to Home Depot and bought all the colors that Steve Sanford web site. Thanks Steve. I noticed years ago, I saw two woodies beaks hand painted vs. spray. Spray looks so much better. Any thoughts?

 

[Michael McCord1]

Use whichever you’re comfortable with. Some parts will be hard to spray vs brush

 

[Don Mintz]

I'm guessing you are talking about an airbrush. Don't waste your money on a harbor freight brush. There is an AIRBRUSH thread on the carver's corner. It never got much traction and is well down the page, but it might answer some of your questions. As far as those wood duck bills looking better hand painted, I suppose it depends on who's running the airbrush. If you only paint a few decoys, I probably wouldn't bother with an airbrush, there is a pretty steep learning curve. It is a tremendous tool for painting decoys when you are painting lots of them.

 

[John Ascherman]

I'm guessing you are talking about an airbrush. Don't waste your money on a harbor freight brush. There is an AIRBRUSH thread on the carver's corner. It never got much traction and is well down the page, but it might answer some of your questions. As far as those wood duck bills looking better hand painted, I suppose it depends on who's running the airbrush. If you only paint a few decoys, I probably wouldn't bother with an airbrush, there is a pretty steep learning curve. It is a tremendous tool for painting decoys when you are painting lots of them.

Thanks for the info. That answers my question.

 

[John Ascherman]

Use whichever you’re comfortable with. Some parts will be hard to spray vs brush

Thank you Michael.