Making fake fish for the ACA convention

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loach43

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These will be mounted to plaques and awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in six different discus classes at the ACA convention courtesy of the NADA. I was commissioned to make these about 3 months ago. They are made of polymer clay and painted with oils, acrylics, metal powders and glaze. A two-part silicone mold was made to reproduce these from a “master fish” that was also made of baked polymer clay. The details of the original fish were achieved by using dental tools, knives, pins, and asst. household items. This was a really fun project and I must say that the folks at the NADA are super nice (they pay very promptly too!). Of course, I had to take a few pics of these before they ship to Chicago just because I have alot of work in them! These aren't monster fish but the convention will definately be monster!

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Nice work. :thumbsup:

Is this your profession ?

Just be glad they weren't Monsters. Imagine having 27 two foot long snakehead /arows/stingrays etc. to do ! :WHOA:

Again Nice work. :clap :clap :clap
 
Those look pretty good! Have you ever made any other fish before? I would love to see pics if you have any other cool projects like this!
 
Thx all for the replies. Not totally my profession, just a pt thing. Yes, I've made several other fish doodads (belt buckles, keychains, fridge magnets, light switchplates etc.) and many are monsters! Would love to put some of these thingies in the MFK buy sell section but I'm not really sure if that's cool since I'm a retailer (?).
Pics of some other fish I've made.

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Yea, guess you have done a couple.

Hope they let you put them on the board for sale.
 
This is not the buy & sell section so I will kindly say to all, please do not ask me to sell you a fish. As said, I might put some kool custom stuff in the buy/sell section like dats, pbass, aros & such, but for now I'm not sure if that's ok with the administrators of MFK.
Thanks though for your interest and enthusiasm:)
 
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