My pintail won best of show in the Novice/Intermediate IWCA Style division at the Oregon Waterfowl Festival
This is the 2nd Best of show win for me this year. If I win one more contest in the intermediate division I'll have to move up to Open competition. I may just just jump into Open anyway.
This hen is doing pretty well so far. It just won 2nd Best of Show in the IWCA Amateur division in the 2010 St. Clair Flats decoy show
These mallards took first and third best of show in the IWCA novice category at the PDFA show this past weekend. The drake was first and the hen was third.
This one has been in the works for a while now. I base coated it ages ago, then set it aside. I finally finished it up this week and I'm pretty happy with the results.
I uploaded some additional pictures of the wood duck I created for the carving demo. They are in the wood duck picture gallery.
Here's a couple of the birds I brought to Westlake with me. This first mallard was for the gunning bird contest on Sunday. The rules are very strict about carved detail so I carved the primary feathers to appear as if they were raised, even though they are not individually carved. It took third place in mallards. I hoped to do better, but it did pretty good considering there were over 20 birds in the pool.
Here's the birds all sealed up before paint.
And here it is painted.
Here's another mallard I entered in the Saturday IWCA contest. This type of contest allows for more carved and painted detail. This mallard took third best in marsh.
We're packing up the house and I haven't had too much time to spend in the shop as of late. Here's some stuff I've got in process. I was especially curious to see how mobile posting works with my new squarespace app.
The wigeon is hollowed, weighted, and glued together. I sealed the insides with WEST epoxy. I also coated the primary feathers to add some toughness. It's just about ready to seal up and paint.
The gadwall body is pretty much carved, but the head isn't too much more than cut out.
The mallard is basecoated with a little bit of detailing added to a couple areas.
