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Location: Asheville,NC | Here is a White perch fish decoy. Decoy is 9 in white cedar belly balanced good swimmer .Aluminum fins . Painted in acrylics I use both airbrush and paint brushes to finish my Fish decoys. MuskyMitch 
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Location: Madison, WI | Cool Cool!
Do you use a burner to carve the scale detail? Crazy cool! What would something like that weigh?
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Location: Asheville,NC | It has about 8 oz lead in belly to swim balance the decoys the scales are done with my burning pen I make custom scale tips out of Nickel cadmium wire . MuskyMitch 
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Edited by MuskyMitch 1/25/2013 7:38 AM
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Location: Madison, WI | WOW
What kind of time to scale one of those? Very cool
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Location: Asheville,NC | Muskyslayer, The scaling process takes me about 3 hours or so on a fish this size .I have different size scale tips I use to simulate the scales on fish. I once did a 27 inch brown trout wood carving for a client that took me over 2 weeks to scale since the scales were only about 1/32 in wide .I like the effect of carved or burned scales over using Wedding veil netting and spraying them on however the veil method is effective on certain fish like trout and small bait fish. I use a Paasche VL1 and a VN1 as well as a Millenium airbrushes for 25 years plus and am comfortable painting with it. I mix my own airbrush paint . MuskyMitch |
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Location: S.Wisconsin | Awesome work man! Those things are sweet!! |
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| These look very nice. Love the detailed scales! |
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White Perch