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Thanks for the help. I did end up on the orange end of things. From what I was seeing if you had a hundred pictures of mottled hens you'd have a hundred different bill layouts. This is what I came up with, I think I had green, yellow, black, orange and a carmel mix color on the bill. I'm...

it's a great site. I had it on my favorites bar under the heading Birds. When our computer turned red during and update it was adios bird references and 13,000 pictures of black bears which distressed me more than the bird site at the time. Maybe I had too many photos on my computer, ya think.

It was like finding an old friend. It's back on my favorites bar where it belongs, I've no doubt spent 100's of hours looking through references on this page and as soon as I saw the picture from the link I knew I was home. It's a great resource for birds and many other things. I'll put the...

oh man Jason, you saved my life. I used to have the e j Peiker site on my favorites bar and had a computer meltdown and lost nearly everything. I think I'll roll a little more on the orange side and noticed a few things I need to change on the feathering. Thank you. you're the man.

I've never had one in hand, can't find any good picture reference hens online that I trust and they all vary widely. Some photos labelled as hen mottled show a greenish bill like a hen black, some are orange like a hen mallard. I see so many references on line that are obviously mislabeled...

That's gorgeous Ron. I love it. Kevin, that makes me think when my son Caleb thought we needed to make cedar lawn furniture and wood boxes for about 5 years. It about killed me, NO MORE WOOD. I'm terribly allergic to about any wood dust.

Another flocking color combo. I've been flocking wigeons with goose grey over leather brown for a long time and it's kind of semi close, but still takes a lot of airbrush blend to get the color where I want it to be, a little orangish toward the lower flank up to a more brownish chest and back...

When did you start carving? My aunt died last weekend and my cousins have been sending me pictures of all the stuff that I had given my aunt and uncle over the years to see if I wanted any of it. There were some carvings that peaked my interest, a couple I didn't remember at all, but my name...

Brad, I can certainly understand the not being in the mood part. At this point it involves more of how much pain it's going to cause compared to how much I really want to do something. I'm very allergic to wood dust and very rarely do much of anything in wood anymore. I carve nearly every...

excellent work Brad, that's a big project. Makes me think of wrestling a moose, which is how I describe making geese.

I had a carving friend in Kansas that always carved his eyes like that. He would coat them several times with fingernail polish. It probably all depends on what your end game is with your own decoys. I like the look of glass eyes, but taxidermy eyes are so expensive. I saw upholstery tacks...

I have used that same Surform on some carving projects in the past, but it's probably been over 30 years. I haven't carved very much cork and only the high density cork with the polyurethane binder. Off hand I can only think of maybe 5 or 6 cork decoys and that's only because someone gave me...

good looking birds. It sounds like it's a great time to be indoors painting. If it's snowing that much it must have warmed up.

I do the butt end of the brush like you mention every now and then, my wife taught me that when she was toll painting. You can get a much rounder pupil more easily that way.