Tried my Hand At Making Some Paint Like Some I Saw

So tell me what you guys think. I know that some were looking for a way to do Gold well other than plating them and I think there is a decent one right here. Also seeing the Disco colors I decided to try making my own. I call this one Lemon Lime Dazz, LOL!

Skip

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4...psyl2hxlkq.jpg

Then the Gold
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4...pssggtovhw.jpg

And just a couple of Colors with some new Glitter.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4...pseqlb809y.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4...ps298tkc7c.jpg

Boy Skip you hit it on the head those are very nice colors you no you got to put it on a sticky your PM will be full.

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If you go to this link you can see a lot of different powder mix's and how to make them up. Cardinal rule of mixing powder to make other colors WHATEVER YOU DO WRITE EVERYTHING DOWN!!!! Take it from DA here - have a great color mix and can't remember how the heck I made it!!

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/pouri...nt-custom-mix/

Skip

Might think about putting those up in the paint mix sticky with amounts to do it!

Great post skip really like the Disco color's(especially the gold disco over a white base)"the fish have really liked this color"(have caught 2 ,10 lb bass on it)several nice crappie(with disco don't need a base coat) the sky is the limit with these powder's like the mix very professional.WOW

Really pretty colors skip

Wow - that lemon lime pops!

Good looking colors!
You're getting it.

The first green or green chartreuse one really nice.

Hey thanks guys, also here is the Lemon Lime Dazz under a UV Light or Black Light, I don't remember which, but same jig as in the other pic.

The best part about this Fatman is I didn't mix any paint so to speak! I was seeing guys using that Disco Paint which they have in 8 colors. So looking at them I thought I knew how they were making that stuff so I decided to make my own and now will make some more. Little story here, I bought some Metal Flake Glitter from CSI a some years back and bought a pound of each on the good many I have. I was thinking of it to use on bodies of my Sparkle Jigs which sold okay, but not special like I thought they would be. Anyway I have messed with glitter over paint color and all, but never was very excited about it before this and now can see some may be worth making, but think most colors still not possible or not worth it. So I have a lot of Candy and Transparent colors which is what I thought had to be the main part of this. SO I have some Candy Lemon Lime and I added in a good bit (no measurement done) of both Gold Holo and Silver Holo Metal Flake Glitter in it and that is what you see. The Gold is accomplished by using Transparent Gold and Gold Holo Metal Flake Glitter.

On the other 2 I am using some very fine stuff called Prismatic Glitter and it is also Holographic. I am playing around with some so small it looks like powder and these are not cheap! I say 3 because I have the very fine stuff in both Gold and Silver, but the Prismatic is just Silver with a ton of fire.

I don't have enough data to help with the measurements yet, but I am not sure you need them and just have to add glitter until it gets like you want it.

Skip

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4...ps4l0ajqea.jpg

A bit bumpy. What you're using is probably Micah powder. And a lil goes a loooooooong way. Smooth it out with more clear.
All look great, but the lemon lime and gold look awesome to me. Have never gotten those effects myself, but can see where a smudge more clear would be good on the line. The gold looks excellent.

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Originally Posted by Micropterus salmoides

A bit bumpy. What you're using is probably Micah powder. And a lil goes a loooooooong way. Smooth it out with more clear.
All look great, but the lemon lime and gold look awesome to me. Have never gotten those effects myself, but can see where a smudge more clear would be good on the line. The gold looks excellent.

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Thanks! I didn't do clear over it at all, but I may have some clear mixed in the paint, not positive about that.

The stuff in the more normal paint jobs is the very fine stuff, but the flakes I used in the Gold and Lemon Lime is just the Metal Flake CSI sells, like TJ's has. I have a whole pound of each color I bought, maybe 6 or 7 of them so I need to find something to do with it, LOL!

Oh almost forgot the Disco colors they sell also have that kind of textured surface and the guys using it seem happy with it so far. I have not tried any of it! Also the bumps get magnified a little because of its glowing effect.

I do also think it's a good idea to add a coat of clear and that would be easy to do!

Skip

I like using finger nail polish on my jigheads. Pretty loud colors.

Ok. Thought you were doing a seperate top coat with the effects.
That's how I do it.....just takes longer.
Good experimenting though. I enjoyed This post a lot.

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Originally Posted by Micropterus salmoides

Ok. Thought you were doing a seperate top coat with the effects.
That's how I do it.....just takes longer.
Good experimenting though. I enjoyed This post a lot.

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That is what I did on the Pink and Chartreuse. Just saw the guys using the Disco Paint and it's bumpy too so I decided that maybe I know how they make it and looks like I was right, they just use Candy colors and dump Metal Flake in to make it come out like this Lenon Lime one! Once I saw how they were bumpy in a photo I decided to give it a shot and am pretty happy about it. The Pink and Chart ones I did use clear with the Prismatic in it.
I have a lot of Candy Colors so will try more to see what happens and have some ideas!

Skip

Spot on for the colors, great work.

Skip....Thanks again for letting me grab your picture!

Here's a gold I came up with using the candy lemon lime, clear and a couple different gold micro glitters. These are the two on the right. I added some Jacquard Aztec gold and Solar gold hi lite/pearl powder to the last yellow color and came up with the two gold jigs on the left. Poor lighting for the picture but a lot of the fire your picture shows is in the pair of gold ones. I'm calling it Fool's Gold.

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...51a7806c01.jpg

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Great post skip really like the Disco color's(especially the gold disco over a white base)"the fish have really liked this color"(have caught 2 ,10 lb bass on it)several nice crappie(with disco don't need a base coat) the sky is the limit with these powder's like the mix very professional.WOW

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Jackie does that mean that we can start calling Skip the "Macho Man". I know that is how Martha looks at him. I couldn't help myself with the Disco color's. Sorry!!!!!

Dern Skip, Just when I think I know what I'm doing you through something like this out. Superb job on the mix my friend.