Made these today. Tried to exaggerate the eyes. Next time I will try to add a core shot for a lateral line and then perhaps melt hot red blood plastic and add a flared gill or something. Comments and suggestions are welcomed.
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Made these today. Tried to exaggerate the eyes. Next time I will try to add a core shot for a lateral line and then perhaps melt hot red blood plastic and add a flared gill or something. Comments and suggestions are welcomed.
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Those look nice Ship. Gills would really make em stand out.
Super looking paddletails, gills wow they will be real stand outs with gill & eyes, make some good colors My wife gots some $$ in her cookie jar and all 13 grandkids presents are bought.
Nice looking baits their ship they should knock the fish dad earlier this spring we caught a 4 pound smallmouth using clear silver glitter in a baby shad stinger it sure did the trick I believe using silver glitter in any of the plastic baits that you have tell action will definitely work it puts off a lot of flash in Clearwater also it is a good imitation.
Bob, and others, I desire your help. My minnow is still a work in progress. I was able to make entrails and get them inside the body before shooting it. I still have to resort to using a permanent marker to get the gill flraring open look. I have not quite gotten the hang of getting the blood plastic to adhere inside the mold and staying in place before shooting it. The eyes are looking great. Now if I could only find a way to do the gills. Any suggestions anybody?
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I would have to play with it Mike to see what I can come up with but I would imagine a small toothpick and hot red plastic and just make up thin line there you'll have to double dip it in clear to make that little line the whole I That same mold I will mess with it later on and let you know the results.
Ideally the gill line should be put in the mold along with the eye before i inject the mold.
Nice!!!!!! A hot pink with green and purple glitter would be nice and a white pearl bottom with a smokey top with holographic glitter would be nice too!!!!!!! And!!LOL the same colors in a split tail grub 1 1/2" to 2".
Hey I've been good this year - I can wish!!!!!!LOL
That's pretty slick how you dot the eyes with black before you inject, Ship. That gill slice won't tease you too much.
They look great I like the eyes. spike it makes garlic markers in like 5 different colors. I use the dark blue to put a blue stripe on top of my white shad and a little orange or red on the belly most of the time do it right before i put on jig as it will fade over time. Let us know how good the paddle tail catches fish it looks good Merry Christmas Ship and a Happy New Year Cub48
Thank you my friend. Merry Christmas to you too. I only ose "Spike it" in chartreuse sometimes on the paddle part of the minnow only. It must be me, but when I use it on other places it tends to run all over the place and not stay where you intend it to be. Same with "Permanent markers" as they also fade after many hours in my test tanks. (Home aquariums) I will probably end up doing just like I do the eyes. Open the mold and melt some black plastic and use a toothpick to dot the eyes. Keep the mold open, melt some red blood plastic and use a toothpick to draw the gills. Close the mold and secure with clamps. Melt some clear plastic to 350 degrees, or until really syrupy, add silver and / or green glitter or a combination thereof and inject the body. Dip the tail in a little spike it (optional). We will see how it comes out tomorrow when I try it. Here is a photo of my test tank. You might see a few of my lures in there. The real live minnows are swimming in the top left area of the tank. My duplicated and replicated minnows imitate them pretty good I think. Just sayin......Quote:
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