Painting new decoys ?

[bigbird2]

I have just recieved some new flocked shell pigeon deaks from our site sponsors today... looking at them they are very good quality but im just wondering if i should put a bit more white on the flashes as they seem a little dull ? what do you fellas think ??

[m0t0deb]

I have just recieved some new flocked shell pigeon deaks from our site sponsors today... looking at them they are very good quality but im just wondering if i should put a bit more white on the flashes as they seem a little dull ? what do you fellas think ??

 

 

white undercoat no shine dries absolutly flat, dont bother with the wing bars, watch real birds u dont see them, paint the neck bars bigger

[vampire]

Go for it,did the same to mine.Made the neck ring bigger,cut the tail feathers down a bit so not so wide and with a white paint pen went over the outline of feathers that lay ontop of tail feathers,looks very good and gets results with them coming to land in my patterns.

You could down load a picture off web to copy.

ATB.

[soontjen]

i thought the white paint was uv paint ??

Edited March 2, 2010 by soontjen

[chrispti]

Tippex

[pmiddy]

A grout pen from b&q are as good as anything just do the neck bars though works a treat

 

cheers.......................paul

[bigbird2]

Well done chaps will be painting the neck rings asap ..

[Ballymac]

if you google woodpigeon and go to images you will find that on some of the pics the woodpigeon has a white wing bar and in others it is not visible. Also the neck ring is infact two circular spots either side of neck rather than bar. So perhaps a variety of decoys with white spots, white bars some with wing bars and some not might produce better results. Anyone do this?

[yipyip]

dont forget mine that r in your bag to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!m8

Edited March 16, 2010 by yipyip

[anser2]

I would paint the wing bars as well as the neck ring. Its true the wing bars are not always visable when they are feeding , but if you watch a feeding flock some birds are always flitting from the back to the front of the flock and flashing their wing bars as they do so. I lay a few dead pigeons with their wings open and wing bar showing about the decoy patten. It all adds to the visability of the decoy pattern.