This Ruby Splashtail is a wooden carved fish. Ruby measures 12 inches long and is made from Basswood ( a great carving wood) and Baltic Birch for the fins
Painted with many many many layers of acrylic paints. Painting Ruby was difficult because depending on the time of day and sunlight when I would catch a this splashtail, the colors on the fins would be different and I would go back and try and match them
A few more in progress shots are at the replica prop forum.