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Location: Minnetonka , MN. | Were can I get Paint? What kind of paint do I use? I have a cheep air brush and want to try and paint some Jakes
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| You may want to search www.tacklemaking.com
I've been thinking about purchasing a cheap air brush and painting (or re-painting) some lures.
good luck.
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | I use Createx Auto Air. It's the same stuff they use to air brush cars, helmets, motor cycles, etc. It is available on line at Dixie, or an auto paint supplier in your town may have it. It's water based, so it's easy to clean up and it won't fume up your house. I use windex glass cleaner for cleaning. The bad thing is, is if you are not planning to clear coat your baits, you really should not use a water based product. If you have any other questions, shoot me an e-mail. Good luck, and have fun with it. |
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| Oops...I forgot to mention www.tackleunderground.com
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Location: Holly, MI | depending on how fancy you want to get, good old spray-bomb paints have worked great for me. It is easy to put a base coat on the entire lure (white or light helps subsequent paints show their true colors), then shoot some dark fron the top side, orange/yellow/white/whatever for the belly, shot of pink or red at the throat if you wish, and ta-da..new lure. I have made some stencils with card stock or index cards and cut out perch patterns etc with an exacto knife. Hold it up to the lure and spray as you would any stencil. The glitter silver and gold paints give nice scale effects. You can spray through mesh (potatoe/orange bag for example) to make scales as well. If you want to try this make your lure darker than you want before wraping it in the mesh, now spray with a lighter color and the scale outlines will be left dark. have fun. |
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| I never used water based paints. For some reason, using water based paints on something that I plan on throwing in the water never made much sense to me.
I tried several, and now I use nothing but House of Kolor products. From primer/sealers to reducers, paints, catalysts........everything. You can thin it 100%, so it airbrushes well.
It's more expensive, but you get what you pay for. You can't use it in the house because of the fumes, but I'd rather use something that dries fast and dries hard and I don't have to put it in a heated or lighted area for the paint to dry. It covers in one coat, regardless of the color.
Search House of Kolor, and only buy from an authorized dealer.
The Createx Autoair is good paint. I've seen lures that my friend has painted, but he too has problems with a clearcoat that will last.
Be patient and practice. If I can do it, it can't be that hard.
Beav |
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | Painting baits for your own use doesn't really have to have exspensive paint as long as you don't mind re-doing it now and then. You would probably re-paint the bait over and over again anyway if the color pattern didn't catch any fish. But if you are painting for customers than I agree with Beav as you need to offer up a quality paint job so the paint holds up, thus, the exspensive paint comes into play. I use certain Createx paints for certain applications but the vast majority of my paint is the exspensive automotive paints. |
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| A quick search on ask.com and here are some hits
http://www.dixieart.com/
http://www.airbrush.com/
http://www.airheadairbrush.com/
I have a divellibus duel action airbrush and it works great.
It's allot of fun to paint up your own lures and catch fish on them.
Jeff |
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| Last time I tried airheadairbrush it said that "this page is not available". |
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| It's there now |
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Location: NeverNever Lake | I paint my baits one at a time, and always finish them with an epoxy clearcoat. I will use any acrylic that will shoot through my Iwata HP-C gravity feed gun. I just found neon red at Walmart and it looks awesome (99 cents a bottle) I thinned it with Golden airbrush medium. Golden products are my personal favorite, they spray better than anything I've tried. Slightly more expensive than Createx.
I don't sell lures, I paint for my own personal enjoyment. I often will paint a bait the night before the hunt. I have a good system now that serves me quite well. I can't tell you how many times I've rode to the lake with a bait hangin from a wire or in the jaws of a pair of vise-grips to finish drying.......
To sum it up, I have found price amongst acrylics to be less important than sprayability. And none of the acrylics have ever failed once epoxy has sealed them from the enviorments. Almost half of all the baits I paint are plastic (grannys, jakes, depthraiders and Sledges)
Crystal Sheen is my epoxy of choice |
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Location: Duluth, MN - Superior, WI | Teck,
When I begin using the airbrush I begin with the cheep paint from the craft department in Wal-Mart mixed with water. I experiment with the Createx one day and have never gone back. I will always use 3 or 4 of the Wal-Mart colors that mix nice. What I found was it would get clogs from chunks in the paint after a week or so. Check the craft stores they sale airbrushes and accessories.
-Corey |
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