FireTigers

Ive been wanting to do color ever since I got my airbrush but just now getting around to doing it. Flo green wasn't contrasting too well with the chartreuse so I decided to darken it up a bit by mixing a little watermelon with it. I painted one side of several baits with this mix one night and liked it. Welp I played heck trying to match that color two nights later! Woulda thought by now Id remember write everything down. These may come across as more of a perch color now but I was still satisfied. The last one is a 5" jerk bait.

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while Buddy you went way beyond me those are fantastic I guess somebody have to get me an airbrush and get with it I will be ordering some stuff from spike it this week mainly plastic have you tried there plastic out yet they have one made just for injection molding I will send you a private p.m. on the rest.

Nice work Ron. That air brush stuff does wonders on plastics and you certainly have got it mastered.

Imagination is everything.WOW!

Thanks fellas! I worked on these off and on for this past week. Just don't get to spend hours at a time in one sitting like I use to. Ha when I see a 15 minute window I sneak out! Then I hear my lil two year girl open the shop door, "Daddy you makin baits? I wanna make baits" Then all the other questions follow... Whats that? Huh? Whats this? You paintin? Can I have this one? Occaisionally I get the OOOHH that ones pretty!

I've got a 5 year old grand daughter that has commandeered several of my pet frog baits. The minnow baits? Nah. She likes those frogs. I have to hide them now when she's coming to visit.

Wow, those are mighty fine lookin baits. I tried regular airbrush paint and it will not stick no matter how clean you get them. Spike it has some nice paint and I may get me some. I wish they had some low VOC paint you don't have to redip the baits. Really nice technique . May be a new fad before long. You done got something started again. The bass guys will be all over that jerk bait!! How much??

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Originally Posted by RonDon

Thanks fellas! I worked on these off and on for this past week. Just don't get to spend hours at a time in one sitting like I use to. Ha when I see a 15 minute window I sneak out! Then I hear my lil two year girl open the shop door, "Daddy you makin baits? I wanna make baits" Then all the other questions follow... Whats that? Huh? Whats this? You paintin? Can I have this one? Occaisionally I get the OOOHH that ones pretty!

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My 2 year old all but stopped my bait making almost completely lol, but they are well worth sacrificing a hobby

Now you are showing me that I need to get an airbrush and some paint from Spike it and go play some more with my soft plastics. That could be a whole lot of fun and very expensive. How do you stop the paint from bleeding? How about shooting me a pm on what I need to order, and from whom.

What did you cut the templet from that you urged to make the strips

That's as nice a fire tiger as it gets. My two cents is well done!

I will say that airbrushing these small baits takes a good bit of time for me to do. You have to paint in stages letting the paint dry between each coat. I use spike its new water based paint that has no fumes which is great. Downside is it takes a little bit longer to dry but when painting several baits at once, the first one is usually dry by the time i finish the last one. After you get the paint job how you want it, you either have to spray a clear coat or dip in clear plastic. By the time you do all this i can do a BUNCH of 3 or even 4 color hand pours!

First off you need an airbrush. They range from el cheapos to expensive. I went with an iwatta eclipse and really like it. Id recommend a .35 tip and a dual action on whatever brush you choose.

Then you need a compressor of some sort. They make compressors for airbrushes but i just use the one in my shop. I put water/oil traps in my lines leading to the brush. 35 psi is a good avg pressure to use.

Fisher, an exacto knife and clear transparency film is what i use. You can buy stincels from alot of places too tho.

How much are you thinning your paint
I tried to spray the water based paint through a .3 and .5 tip and didn't get good results
By the time I got it thin enough to spray it wouldn't coat good (that brush was a elchepo airbrush "master")
But I can spray through my paashe with a number 3 tip

Note: this is a great product and I have had great results using it just not with that airbrush

Im not thinning at all. I bought a .5 needle when i ordered my AB just in case i needed it but never have. I think its worth spending the extra bucks to get a decent airbrush. I also like the double action feature.

Me to my paashe is double action
A double action is all I have ever used
You do great work that's for sure
I have sprayed a lot of spike-its solvent base paint and I'm starting to change over a little at a time but I still got a lot of the other left so it will be a while before I get fully swapped
But I sure look forward to being all done

I only use spike-it products for my plastic they are great to work with they are a big company who still looks out for the little guys and there products are outstanding

Yep they have EVERYTHING!