Recent content by Don Mintz

The pintail mallard crosses are ready for paint. I've been scratching my head about the color of the cape on the cross, It's kind of mallard drakeish, I went with black enamel and goose grey flocking and it will at least give me a decent base to work with the airbrush. I did a little more...

I did a little blend flocking on some Pintail /mallard crosses today. Blend flocking is when I can use the same color of flocking over two different colors of enamel. Grey on the flank and brown on the chest give a nice base for the airbrush without leaving a seam. I have three more days of...

I've started tooling the feathers on this Ross' goose. This project was interesting, I got the dimensions of the neck band and built a goose around it.

As far as high tech, at one point we had designed a flocking booth that would have shortened the dusting process and contain the flocking much better, but once I moved my shop back home I didn't have the space. The big deal with flocking is painting the glue on, that's what takes time and there...

There are several guys on here capable of a first rate paint job. You might want to post this on the main forum. Most of the cork and wood guys seem to hang out there.

I put flocking on 40 decoys this morning by noon, some full coats, some second coats like the chest of a mallard drake. This is a photo of my high tech flocking set up. A kitchen sieve and a plastic tub, of course normally I'd be covered up with a respirator and goggles. The fishing shirt is...

I finished up the pigeon and dove designs. It's a lot heavier detail than I would do on my own decoys.