Thread: Painting a lot of decoys

Anyone have a quick and simple way of painting a bunch of mallard decoys?have about 120 to do up!

Originally Posted by The bomb

Anyone have a quick and simple way of painting a bunch of mallard decoys?have about 120 to do up!

Come on, your a painter?

Yep,houses not decoys!thinking rattle cans the way to go but might be pricey,heard some guys airbrush as well?

Also wondering what ratio to paint them?mostly drakes for colour standout ?shooting biggish public lake in Huntly with very dirty brown water and raglan harbour later in the season.

Get the kids to paint em with there acrylic paint.good fun at the dinner table.

One boy to four girls. Paint with brush. Hell if really worried do them plain dark brown blackboard paint and get fancy with the drake's.by time ducks get good look they should be dead. Motion decoy will take their eyes off anything else

Base colour of brown for hens, followed by stencil with cutouts for feathers, spray paint should speed up the process. Take your time on the drakes

Cheapish spraygun, stencils u can even use a spare tyre for airsource if u really wanna be cheap, airbrush is slow

I used this process with the kids "helping" couple of years ago. Rough enough was good enough. Worked well. Smashed out 50 in a couple of hours

https://www.resene.co.nz/weekendproj...y-painting.htm

@dannyb or other moderators...could we PLEASE get the above link as a sticky in the waterfowl thread????
and for parrie females resene hairy heath is the shite...

for years did this using resene test pots($5.50 per unit) ans cheap kids art brushes.genuinely suprised how well these lasted out on lake ellesmere where it can be bloody brutal at times.

great idea for and idle afternoon or two get in a few bevvies set yourself up in your mancave sport radio on and away we go ."sorry cant talk very busy on extremely important task"-response to religious door bangers or seekers of your precious money.
by the time the beers are frinished in your eyesa every decoy willlook like a rembrandt!!and youll be very happy.

Made a start,rattle cans from Bunnings and @ bit of brushwork to highlight the white bits and feather detail,doing it again tomorrow on the rest then onto strings and weights..need some lead now??

Looking great

Need to leave them in the weather for a while to get rid of the shine I think..