This ad ran in the winter of 1997 to celebrate the sweeping of all the top awards at the World Taxidermy & Fish Carving Championships by wildlife artists using Polytranspar Airbrush Paint. The text from this ad is reprinted below:

Polytranspar Does it Again!
... Sweeping the top Fish Awards at the 1997 World Taxidermy & Fish Carving Championships!

Best in World Fish Carving
by Clark Schreibeis of Billings, Montana
Tinkers butterflyfish and dragon moray eel wood sculpture painted with Polytranspar airbrush paints.

Best in World Fish
by Mike Orthober of Egg Harbor, Wisconsin
Brown trout skin mount painted with Polytranspar Airbrush paints.

Second in World Fish
by Jeff Lumsden of Everett, Washington
Brook trout skin mount painted with Polytranspar paints.

Third in World Fish
by Cory Caruthers of Urbandale, Iowa
Largemouth bass skin mount painted with Polytranspar paints.

The 1997 World Taxidermy & Fish Carving Championships held in Springfield, Illinois was the largest event of its kind in history. And when the best fish taxidermy and fish carving entries in the world were chosen by the judges, it came as no surprise that all of the top award winners were finished with Polytranspar Airbrush Paint. The unique paint system designed BY wildlife artists FOR wildlife artists has set the standard at competition after competition. Entries painted with Polytranspar have won more major taxidermy and fish carving awards than all other brands of paint combined! At World, national, regional and state competitions for the past fifteen years, Polytranspar is the choice of champions!

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