Yes, I tried the orange button. Now here is my question's. I am doing my first struting turkey, have books, and videos, they say that the head colors are red, white, and blue. Ok, fine but what I want to know is a type of paint, water base, enamal, or what. I personally have polytranspar products. If you know what colors you need to paint a turkey head in lacquers, please let me know.
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You can use any or all of them. Colors are colors, but the Breakthrough Waterfowl Finishing manual give you a paint schedule to follow. Still, use good reference pictures and mix your colors as needed. Most things we paint don't have solid definitive colors, rather subtle hues and tints using those colors.
George is dead on as to the turkey colors. I take photos of all my turkeys when they are brought in fresh and try to duplicate the way the colors were arranged on that particular bird. I recently got in a turkey that had almost snow white wattles. When I painted the freeze dried head to match those colors, I didn't like it so I called the customer for his opinion. He said paint 'em red! Turkeys have so many different colors that it's hard to mess one up if you use good reference. I use polytranspar and wildlife colors paint water based paints. If you are using a freeze dried head, I would take a soft brush and clean it well then apply an anti-fungal sealer as my base. I personally do a lot of white base paint to cover up the brownish tone on FD heads. I go bold on the wattles areas but very subtle on the sides of the head and around the white cap. Learning to run your air brush almost touching the skin and applying tiny amounts of paint will save you the cleaning paint out of the hairs and small feathers. Good Luck.