Half of the drakes I finally finished to replace some Smyser corks I sold. These are made to float with minimal ice-buildup on Great Lakes waters and afford maximum visibility.
Goldens Heavy Matte acrylics; basswood tailboards and tupelo heads, sealed with thinned epoxy.
Half of the drakes I finally finished to replace some Smyser corks I sold. These are made to float with minimal ice-buildup on Great Lakes waters and afford maximum visibility.
Goldens Heavy Matte acrylics; basswood tailboards and tupelo heads, sealed with thinned epoxy.
These are some of the ten hens that compliment them. Hens take-up much more time to paint. I made these a little brighter than life to show up at a distance.
I found some really nice cherry wood, in of all places, a shipping crate frame for a replacement storage/transport cover for my TDB-17' classic that will become the keel wood on al thirty of these. Normally I use oak.
I prefer to stick with hunting decoys, no miniatures, no contest birds, no urns. Wood is a better carving medium for those and I prefer to work in cork, partly because I am allergic to cedar, cyprus, and palownia
It was built by one of the pair-of-hands guys at their shop, constructed of oak and cherry with douglas fir slatting, all from the scrap lumber pile held together with four different star drive and square drive screws. It took me nearly two hours to tear it down in the parking lot of the veterinary clinic where my wife works, all during a really nice steady snowfall! The shipper told me I would save some money by having it delivered to a commercial address. Consequently, I had to break it down completely via hand tools and slide the cover in the truck, along with the lumber. The driver announced that he would only help me get it to the back of the trailer and that I was on my own from there. He stayed true to his word, too, bless his fat lazy a$$!
Half of the drakes I finally finished to replace some Smyser corks I sold. These are made to float with minimal ice-buildup on Great Lakes waters and afford maximum visibility.
Goldens Heavy Matte acrylics; basswood tailboards and tupelo heads, sealed with thinned epoxy.
Four more drake bluebills along with a two piece hed and body redhead that is going to become a mold plug to be used in the production of some 8lb density foam birds from in the spring.
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