Last week I made a large order from Amazon....

 

I ordered an airbrush kit, complete set of wicked paints, and 5 different type of crankbait blanks. After watching lots of youtube videos on it and getting some confidence. I finally got to play with it today and took my time, made three. Except for the mesh I used for the scales on the second one, all by hand no stencils.... What do you guys think?

 

First one I made, having never before touched an airbrush. I was going for a small simple sunfish look

http://i.imgur.com/8T5Jp0s.jpg

 

Second one, didn't really know what I was going for here, just kinda let my mind wonder..I used an old net from a cheap made minnow trap to create the scale pattern, but I went a little too dark. A little dab will do ya on these paints kids.

http://i.imgur.com/vWyvm6Q.jpg

 

This one is my favorite. I got the basic idea from a youtuber and went from there.

http://i.imgur.com/oHwSVlP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/aZeD2nr.jpg

 

 

awesome!!

Very nice

Great looking for sure!  I wish I could get my gills looking like that!

4 hours ago, Ringonu said:

Great looking for sure!  I wish I could get my gills looking like that!

 

i layed a white base paint over the gill plate and then put the blue on with low air pressure. just flicking the trigger.

They look great man, hope you catch a fish on them. I can't even color inside the lines with crayons. Lol

Incredibly nice work!

Those will catch fish, nice work. 

That last one!  

some more today... my favorite so far is the shad. The red lipless crank, the photos don't do it much justice. It has a thin layer of gold on it that reflects the light when its hit just right. You can see a bit of it on the lower gill plate.

 

Those look very nice. You have the artist's touch. 

Looks like you are a natural.  All look awesome.

Wow!  nice job!

Beautiful work!

 

Dave

Those are nice!

thanks!

 

I have learned a lot from trial and error lol. It helps a lot if you make a checklist to go through in order to create one properly. For example, making sure the eyes are set before you start mixing your epoxy.... I also do a dab of glue on the eyes so they don't move while applying epoxy. Also make sure you remove the masking tape on the bill before removing the masking tape. Otherwise it removes paint when you remove the tape with epoxy over it.

 

Two of Navy buddies like my mistakes though. I keep a box in my little bait shop. Any baits that will still work but have minor defects I can't rework and sell to a customer, I throw in it. When the box gets full I ship it to them so they split it.

Karma , 

Great Work On The Gill.

Mike 

Dude, very nice stuff.

 

There's some real talent on this forum for

painting cranks, and such. I'm impressed.

I really like the first and last one. Look very nice

A few more, I had some time at the house last night and today before I had to hit the road again. I created a few. This is my first popper and I love it. Sadly I got a little too eager to get it off the drying rack and examine it and I took a chip of paint off the belly. I can repair it, I just felt dumb about it. Should have waited...

 

 

I made two of these guys, I was going for a chartreuse shad pattern and kind of messed up, from what I originally was trying to do, so I got a little created and salvaged them.

 

 

Fine Job! Keep it up. Beautiful detail. I'm definitely envious. 

great work, keep it up!

my latest...

 

Tennessee Shad Jerkbait

Midnight Special 2.5 Squarebill Crankbait

Raspberry 2.5 Squarebill Crankbait

 

Just be careful were you buy your bodies.   You invest alot of time in the paint and some of these are not up to standard quality.   I have a box of nice ones, that'll crack in half.  

I think  I have finally gotten my bluegill where I want it. I wish I had taken pictures of a yellow chartreuse 2.5 I made, but the last time I seen it a 30+ rock fish was taking it to the bottom of Cordell Hull never to be seen again after the line snapped.