This was clear, detailed, and VERY helpful. I'm embarrassed to say that I just discovered your channel, even though I've been making lures for two years! I'll certainly be seeking you out for painting advice from now on-as a subscriber. Thank you, Chris
@@keales9564 Wow I would love to catch a GT once in my life. Insanely strong fish I believe. I will be making some more informational tutorials in the future and less paintjob tutorials for a while. I hope you can learn something from those as well 👍😁
Good stuff man, I spent a lot of time practicing on spoons and it definitely paid off. I highly recommend it. I Enjoy all your videos they are very helpful, keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Yea we can learn so much from just painting plastic spoons, it is so simple but feslly ups your game immediately. Fun to hear you did it as well 😁!
Really good video! I would like to also see what kind of pressures you use from the compressor, what airbrush you use and how much thinners you use when mixing up colors.
Thank you! I will be getting more in depth on those subjects soon in seperate videos 👍 but to give you a quick answer 😄 I used an iwata eclipse with an 0.35mm needle, I shot all the paint in this video at the same airpressure which was around 35PSI, and I thinned down only the black and white base coats with about 30% thinner (4012 from createx) the metallics and pearlescents I did not need to thin down to spray larger areas
Over thinning opens up lots of opportunities for a very thin transparent appearance. But, beware of running from spraying to much, less is more, let dry, repeat. Also, what I have found with my Paasche Talon is, with metallic and pearls and some very micro glitters, you need to mix your paint, mixing I mean shaking up paint, the longer it sets, the temperature of the paint, can work you, I don’t care who you are, no human can shake up most of those paints correctly, I use a paint shaker I found on youtub, easy to build if you have the needed parts, but worth its weight in gold for me. My Paasche Talon has built in its body only one air hole, I noticed the Iwata has 3 air holes, think of the aircap as a sealed funnel, air blows through the funnel picking up paint, to spray. The Iwata with its 3 holes will have a way better balance of air going into the funnel, VS the Talon with one on the top of the body. We’re the top of the funnel will have more air flow VS the bottom. Hence a unbalanced spray.
Agree with you on the overthinning paint. I use it a lot when I am airbrushing on canvas or metal. And thank you for sharing that valuable info. I did not know that about the paasche and iwata.
very good video and very nicely explained, I'm just waiting for my first airbrush set to arrive, I ordered ten colors for softbait lures, now I'm wondering if I didn't find it anywhere on RU-vid, each color I took costs a lot, 9 euros for a 60 ml bottle , I will practice coloring with them and I hope that the composition is written on them, so I think to take one bottle if it says the composition of what it is made of and go to a local store where different colors are mixed, and ask them to do the same thing for me, I think those colors would be much cheaper, have you tried something similar?
I used to paint soft baits in the past and what I did is i bought pigments online ( which are not that expensive) and then just bought the clear softbait paint and mixed my own colors. this is great to start with but all colors mixed with pigments are opaque or pearlescent. After some time you will want to experiment with transparent colors too. Then you could color the paint with other things maybe ( not sure what, maybe softbait coloring perhaps?) in general quality paints are expensive, but 60ml goes a very long way and you can often paint a few 100 lures with one bottle ( depending on how often you use the color, black and white used the most ofcourse)
