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that's looking pretty good.

I made this cork mallard hen in the same manner Brad described. only the top of the head down to about where the eyes are is a separate piece of cork, the rest of the head was carved into the body block. A cork body with a basswood tail board. I painted it with acrylic since I figured it...

You are correct Kevin, decoys don't need carved feathering to work. nearly all of my decoys are smooth, only feather groups defined. The flocking would eat up any feather detail I added. I'm making a mandarin right now and trying to figure out what I'm going to do with all the neck feathering...

Caleb got the hens over here this past week to join the drakes. We finished up the wood ducks as well, the never ending paint job.

It's kind of a common thing amongst divers for hen heavy looking groups during hunting season. We use lots of hen decoys for buffleheads, usually 9 hens and 2 drakes improve our ability to decoy by a significant amount. What we noticed was lots of groups of buffleheads will seemingly only have...

it's 17 to 18 months for mergansers to get their adult breeding plumage.

As far as a similar body shape, probably a bufflehead would be close. As with any pattern I develop I do a ton of research, look through thousands of photos. I get an idea of the look I want on a head or body, usually pretty generic on the body to allow for multiple poses. Heads vary so...

four more this time, but the canvasbacks didn't need anything other than to clear the eyes. I'm kind of liking this division of labor, I would much prefer the creative side of making interesting poses to the painting part. I really like this offset head angle on the canvasback, just more...

finished up three more, on to the next three.

These are the first three of 37 decoys that I'm finishing a little detail work on this week. Seven of the remaining are wood ducks which are of course the never ending paint job. It's been really nice to get my son up to speed on a variety of species on the airbrush. He had never done...

looking good Bob, you just keep getting better.