Decoy of the Month...October

[jasonmichalski]

Looking good guys I need to get back to mine, I have been busy trying to fill spear and decoy orders, in my spare time.

[Jameson]

  Neighbor_guy said:

Fins and tail all glued up. I also did the lead and the epoxy tonight. Think I may have over done the lead a little bit. She feels HEAVY!!!. I guess time will tell. With any luck I can balance and swim it tomorrow.

I will let you guys know how it turns out.

Gonna go with traditional red/white coloring?

[mrklean]

looking good

[Neighbor_guy]

Almost ready for the show and tell...

Put on the epoxy coat last night to give it the depth and shimmer I was looking for and came up with an idea for those external gills...

Cant wait to see what everyone else is comming up with, hope to see several different ones in the next couple weeks

[Neighbor_guy]

  jasonmichalski said:

Looking good guys I need to get back to mine, I have been busy trying to fill spear and decoy orders, in my spare time.

Thats why I went with the "Decoy of the Month" figured a lot of people had a lot of stuff going at one time. If we are going to get more people to play along a reasonable amount of time was the only way to go.

[jasonmichalski]

I was thinking going to my fly tying box for external gill ideas.

[Neighbor_guy]

Done!!!

Whata ya think???

[Neighbor_guy]

Really though, I am finished....

White basecoat, followed by a full coat of Marigold, then top/back in chocolate brown, a gold glitter coat to make it shinny, and hand painted spots. Two coats of clear coat and a coat of 2part epoxy to give that glitter coat that deep glitter boat look. Finally after a raid of the kids knitting yarn, those strange external gills.

It swims too... but the backyard pond has been put up for the season and has turned a bit to the green side, so the videos did not turn out to be viewable...

Can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with...

[jasonmichalski]

Looks greats !!

[mrklean]

very cool looking

[Mike89]

very good!!

[PGF]

Nice job!

[Gordie]

I LIKE...NG

[Dorkfish]

Sorry for late posting of this

[Jameson]

Looks Good!!

But next time try to get the bottle of pink stuff turned to see the label, and make sure the Dremel is all the way in the picture. That pop can is hidden, show it. This could be like NASCAR and the sponsors!

[Dorkfish]

Hahaha the paint is red and that's the dremels box it came in . I also used some little minnows and cut the tail off to give it a spinning look hopefully

[Gordie]

Dorkfish that looks nice are you going to call it a dork puppy

[Neighbor_guy]

"Dork-puppy" thats funny

Nice job! I like the use of the curly tails. Did you swim it?

[jasonmichalski]

Still working on it, lol!

I'm going to paint the legs on the fins.

[Dorkfish]

Not yet haven't had anything bi enough to test it

[jasonmichalski]

  Dorkfish said:

Not yet haven't had anything bi enough to test it

I used to use the bath tub before I put the IBC tote in the basement

[jasonmichalski]

finally done and its my 100th decoy!

[Neighbor_guy]

Nice decoy Jason!!! That turned out sweet it looks like it's smiling.

Glad to be part of the #100 milestone. I still have a ways to go to get to that point.

Thanks for playing along

[jasonmichalski]

Thank you, I wish I had more time to build a decoy for each month but I'm pretty backed up with orders right now.