Post #817067 by MadDogMike on Tue, Oct 7, 2025 2:33 PM

It just might be Wendy... LOL
coldwarspacemonkey and hang10tiki, thank you

My wife had a Halloween raven for a few years that I wanted to transform into a hornbill. But she wasn't going for it.

This year I found her a smaller but more detailed and more animated replacement.

I 3D printed a beak for him

And trimmed it to fit

I picked up this foam putty to fill in the gaps. Never used it before but it's air dry, sandable, paintable, lightweight, non-shrinking. We'll see how it works

Put a gob of putty inside the beak and shoved it on the raven's face

Then smoothed out the putty

While the putty was drying, I started painting the base and tail. I wanted the base to be brown instead of black so the bird would stand out better.

I gave the tail a wash with grey and the base a wash of black to accentuate the texture.

Now to wait for the putty to dry