Scarlet/Western Tanager Cast

Scarlet/Western Tanager CastImprove your carving and painting skills with accurate, highly detailed resin cast reproductions by award winning sculptors Bob and Josh Guge. These casts are the same ones used in the carving classes. If you use acrylic paints, simply wash your cast with denatured alcohol and youre ready to practice again.

A Colwood handle is needed for the replaceable tips

They can be painted and attached to your carving

An indigo bunting is used in the demonstration but the principle applies to any smaller beaked wildfowl

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This kit simplifies the complicated process of creating bird eye rings

This is the original bent-tip design that Bob Guge created decades ago

This tip is ideal for miniatures or smaller carvings

Improve your carving and painting skills with accurate

or used as reference to sculpt your own feet

This tip is permanently attached to the handle

The sculptures are finished with a turned black walnut base

-sculpting habitat textures like branches