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For the drakes, I'll flock the whole thing grey over grey rustoleum for a first coat, then the head and back all the way through the tail and femoral tract with black over black rustoleum. A second coat of grey over the area you want white. That gives you a double coat which is important to...

A little painting progress on the pintail urn. This is day one on the airbrush, there will be at least a day two on airbrush and then onto hand painting. Oil based enamel, though extremely durable, is also difficult do deal with because of drying time. It's kind of a paint and wait type...

The paint wasn't great on those tanglefree's. I just finished carving and flocking 10 more buffleheads that I sent to my son's shop for painting, four of them drakes.

it sounds like you are an innovator, finding and repurposing materials to accomplish durability. I didn't do well in art class either and only have one credit of art in high school. I grew up in the time that abstract ruled the art world and I didn't fit in well when the only thing I wanted to...

Welcome from the west side of the Rocky Mountains. I live in south central Idaho, the desert. I moved up here 35 years and figured I was giving up duck hunting for bear hunting in the mountains. What I did find was a mecca for a variety of waterfowl just 20 miles from my house all along the...

In my family it had nothing to do with age, but responsibility and good judgement, those things are what determined hunting privileges. I think the first time I actually hunted with a shotgun was at 9, it was even on my own, but I'll bet dad and grandpa were watching me from the barnyard as I...

I'm guessing you are talking about an airbrush. Don't waste your money on a harbor freight brush. There is an AIRBRUSH thread on the carver's corner. It never got much traction and is well down the page, but it might answer some of your questions. As far as those wood duck bills looking...

fine looking work Ben, what kind of wood is that.

That swan looks fantastic, I think canvas decoys are above my pay grade.

On rare occasion I do a little wood carving. I'm badly allergic to wood dust, but sometimes it just has to be done. I look like someone doing hazmat duty, but it still only helps marginally. I've been working on this pintail urn off and one for several weeks, work a few hours and recover for...

Scoter day. I've had this order for over 3 years and finally put my head down and finished them. I've put them here on the airbrush thread to describe how I sometimes airbrush over black flocking. Now it's a given that if I was hunting these decoys I'd just flock the drakes black and call it...

I can smell the sawdust from that red cedar, a lot more pleasant than western cedar.

Repairing flocked decoys. Every now and then I get a decoy back for repair, usually it's from a dog retrieving it or as in this case an overambitious 10 year old just getting started on his waterfowling journey. He made a good shot, the duck would have been dead had it been a real duck. The...