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Confusion aside…paint pens might be interesting. But I did some dry brushing and stepped back 15 feet. Looked great. Birds won’t care. I’ll be honest my black ducks are herters bodies that I inherited from my good friend Jon Yenni and heads that I carved from pine that he gave me. He is not...

Wow I hope you don’t drive yourself completely crazy like I have done over the years. I have owned a lot of boats trying to find the right one. What style of fishing do you do? I exclusively troll on Lake Erie which generally requires a deeper wider boat. I’m a big Hewescraft fan. Heavy...

Typically, your barrel should like the 77 grain better than the 55 grain. My 223 is a 1:12 and won’t shoot anything over 60 grains very well.

Are the flexible And come painted or did you have to paint them? I have a canvasback sitting on a log and want to add a foot to it.

It’s not as bad as the time she came home and found the whole skinned pronghorn head spinning around in circles in the microwave. I was trying to loosen the horn sheaths. True story.

I’ve been texturing with gesso and acrylic sculpting clay and agree that it’s a real game changer. Not the flocking I see here but half as good. I brush paint so that’s a limiting factor as well. I have an airbrush in a box in my basement that is defective because it doesn’t turn my decoys...

Thanks. I think I’ll try a wash for some texture. Then move on the the body.

Do I really need to paint on the 300 feathers on the face or can I just leave it like this? I am finding the exercise rather tedious. This is a wooden head I carved that I will be putting on a herters body that I burlapped. It will be for big water hunting, mixed into my layout rig.

They didn’t look even remotely special or expensive to me…