Miniature Prairie Chicken Project

[rjm6254]

My next project in the game bird category is this miniature Prairie Chicken Bawk! Bawk! The bird is 1/2 lifesize scale .
Basswood .
Mitch

 

[Sealeveler]

That is coming along great,nice detail.
Tony

 

[rjm6254]

Prairie progress I did some defining and made wing tips.I also begin to define the feather tracts.This is gonna be a sweet chicken.

 

[rjm6254]

Today I finished burning the feather detail and made the legs.I use a heavy gauge copper wire for the leg supports then apoxy sculpt the leggings.
For the base I smeared bondo on a oval plaque and used a stiff brush to dab in texture .When painted the texture will simulate a sandy soil.I uses the same technique on my quail and it turns out nice painted.
Feet are generic toes only in a size that is to scale of a 1/2 size miniature prarie chicken.
See pics more later.
Mitch

 

[MagGeorge]

Impressive work! Your amazing chicken looks real. Great attention to details especially on the burning of the feathers combined with the painting. Awesome talent and skills.

 

[rjm6254]

Today I worked on the base made some prairie grass and the chicken is in primer ready to paint .

 

[rjm6254]

Here is the finished painted Prairie Chicken .The carving is basswood the eyes
5mm glass the base is multi media wood, bondo, wire and brass.The Bird is 1/2 life size scale and looks much better in chicken then in pictures .
Im happy with it .I hope you all enjoyed the progression pictures.


Mitch

 

[Steve_Honeycutt]

This is amazing.

Steve H.

 

[Charlie]

Fantastic and amazing work. So lifelike.

 

[thrt15nc]

That is absolutely amazing! Holy cow!!!!

So you carve it, then burn feather detail and then it looked like you "primed' it and finally did what looks like lots of painting. If I were to look at it real close, can you see through the final paint coat and still see the detail of the very first burning you did? How does that work?

Tom

 

[rjm6254]

Simply yes you can see the detail burning under the following layers the effect is to create layers of texture to exaggerate the feathers so that the paint layers are enhanced .

 

[thrt15nc]

Thanks for the explanation. It's beautiful.

Tom

 

[Flootsie]

Wow! I finally got the nerve to venture into the carvers' forum...and what a bird! I am tremendously impressed.