Painting Cranks

Obviously I am very early into the the self teaching process of learning to do this. I am trying to not get fancy but doing colors and such that I think will catch crappie. I look for old beat up cranks to redo. Not many pull cranks here in kansas but it has been productive for me in the summers.

I am using basic equipment until I get better....be a while....then want to up grade. But I want to keep it basic. So I did a dozen or so and to a pic of a few over the last couple of days playing around. Of course when a sale comes up like the one Overstockbaits had I load up.

Would love to find some Generic old Wiggle Warts blanks but nothing so far I have found comes close that trolls well. These are old bandits and cotton cordells

Wish we had a Crankbait sub-section

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I like the work, very nice. I have seen some nice patterns come out of lace, a sort of scale effect. Might be worth a try. A deep hot pink Bandit, with a bit more red in it than the others offer works well for me. Have fun....Skeet.

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Originally Posted by skeetbum

I like the work, very nice. I have seen some nice patterns come out of lace, a sort of scale effect. Might be worth a try. A deep hot pink Bandit, with a bit more red in it than the others offer works well for me. Have fun....Skeet.

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I have some micro netting for scales, never used it but something to try. I found some pink colors, should be easy to match

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I like the two on the right. Nice work.

Very nice

Nice work. Talk to ScottV and/or check out tackleunderground.com.

Looking good, like them all.

you are doing a fantastic job on airbrushing and I'm sure that more practice that you get the better your crank baits will come out glad to see that you are enjoying a beautiful hobby like that now if I can get into airbrushing jig heads that would be interesting.

Looking good!

Look-n-good

Look good

Thank you for the kind words........Hoping the next set will be better. I will say this is one of those things that you learn something every time you do it and hopefully get a better finished product because of it.

just score a "Bunch" of Cotton Cordell Deep Diving Crankbaits for a $1 each in the Walmart clearance box that I am going to repaint.....these are great Wiper / Walleye and mimic close to the Rapala Wiggle Wart actions.....plus its fun

Good job very nice. Gary