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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ed keeble" data-source="post: 1003478" data-attributes="member: 49020">Hello all- nice to see some traffic on here.  Those comments on drawing feet small as a sort of defensive tactic are spot- on. Subconciously, you think that if you don't make to much of a statement with them, you might get way with it..Dave B's of course quite right about true foot size- the toes on my little wader are probably about two thirds true length.  I could pretend the last third is covered by mud or might have a little tinker with it.   Commiserations to Birdpotter on the sculpting challenge - the side-on view can look OK but then  when you look from front or back..aieeee.  The number of times I have drilled leg holes in the base of a carving , then drilled another..then another until the drill holes start to merge into each other..then out with the filler..So one killer question is how far apart the legs should be where they enter the body- do they join the body close together and angle round it, or do they hang off the side of the body, just inside the flank feathers.</blockquote>