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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.

you may need to play around with a single decoy. I've heard oxyclean is good, but haven't tried it myself. We have lots of issues with moss leaving a ring around the bottom of decoys here on the snake river. I've never done much more than spray them off in my shop sink with hot water. We...