TUTORIAL - Painting Homer Brant

[Steve Sanford]

Good morning, All~

I just posted a Tutorial on my site for painting Homer Brant. The full step-by-step - beginning with coating and priming the birds - is there at: https://stevenjaysanford.com/tutorial-painting-homer-brant/

Here I stay within the 10 photo limit to give you a taste. Here's the Behr Paint Schedule:

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I coated these birds with my usual epoxy from u. s. composites but used Homer Coat - a custom blend of more finely-ground walnut shells than I had tried from Harbor Freight (too coarse) instead of my usual sawdust.

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All the birds are primed with an oil primer to fill some of the voids in the coat. If the coat is too rough, I have found that the decoys can be impossible to rid of fine mud.

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As usual, I work from stern to stem.....

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Most of the paint lines are molded into the body.

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Although a quick bout with fine sandpaper would be better, I just hit the hardware with Self-etching Primer from Rustoleum.

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The back should be blended - darker aft, lighter forward.

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I use a "formula" for suggesting the barring on the sides.

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Dark and light feather edgings do the trick.

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The necklace is the last little detail.....

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Hope this is useful!

SJS

 

[Tom Whitehurst]

Steve- after seeing the Brant you did at Cedar Beach and now providing a tutorial I guess I really need to do some of these birds. Thanks!