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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.

you guys are putting together some good stuff.

Next on the list is mother's day caddis on the Henry's Fork. The crowds aren't too bad and the flows are usually about right to pick up some big browns on dries. Thousands of people float the Henry's Fork every summer and the major hatches like green drakes and salmon flies are about ruined...

I was doing a search on google for Tom Rowe today and found this old thread. I was primarily a wildlife woodcarver before I met Tom on another forum. He is the guy that really got me into making duck decoys. He was always generous with help and advice when I needed guidance. I haven't heard...

that's beautiful. I haven't mounted very many birds, but enough to know how difficult it is. I mostly mounted deer heads and largemouth bass.

very creative, what a great idea.

those are looking outstanding Ron. That's a pretty cool idea with the half decoys.

I sure get that, painting other people decoy designs is a real pain, not to mention the fact that I just don't like adding value to someone else's artwork. There is nothing realistic about painting some of the plastics these days, the relief carving makes things twice as hard, ignoring the...

In the past when I was burlapping decoys I would do two or three coats of gloss oil based enamel on them, both as a sealer and a base color. then I'd paint over it with oil based paints to keep everything compatible. The enamel soaks into the burlap and mastic pretty well.