Quote Originally Posted by rayzor65 View Post
I'm sure you can spend as much as you want on an air brush but what would you think it would cost to get started to paint your own cranks?

Ray
I use a $600 Iwata Custom Micron B airbrush and lacquer to paint fish in my taxidermy studio but use a $100 Badger Renegade Velocity airbrush to paint my cranks with acrylic paints. I use fine nozzle on the airbrush so I can spray transparents, pearls and opaques.I buy most my crankbait paint off the shelf at Hobby Lobby--Createx. I do have some unique acrylic taxidermy paint colors that I use on cranks. Anybody can buy that paint from taxidermy supply companies--I prefer Polytranspar paints. I went online to find formulas to mix my own reducer to thin the paint and use Windex to clean my airbrush between colors. I paint all my cranks solid opaque white before I ever put a speck of color on.

You are only limited by your imagination when you paint your own and it sure doesn't hurt as bad to lose a $2 crank I painted than a $7-8 Bandit. Lots of times I've hit on a totally off-the-wall paint scheme that is dynamite and you can bet nobody else has one like it. I do take pics of most of my cranks so I can duplicate the scheme if I lose all of that particular bait.