Painting Soft Baits the down and dirty way 

Hello, you are the Leonardo da Vinci of Fish painting. Thank you for the great Video. I wait for the next one. Best wishes from Cologne/Germany🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣

Once again, Paul, you've impressed. Thanks again. I'm always hanging out for your uploads.

Fun easy way to get into lure making. I started making balsa minnows this winter after watching your videos I plan to use them on this up coming stripped bassand blue fish season here in the north east usa.

You are my Hero. Have been thinking on stuff to colour my lures for a couple months, and now Isee a Hanmade's Fisherman video about that topic and my reaction is "here it is, the solution" before clicking on the video. Thanks Paul

I always used cheap baits from store but now im making my own baits thanks for you Paul.

I'm impressed. Very clever

Hi Paul , Great vid Great Channel , I make my own soft plastic lures , the way I colour mine is with regular glitter from hobby craft , I sprinkle silver on the sides and belly and smear it with my finger it goes shiny like chrome down to the start of the tail then the same on its back with a coloured glitter , then I hold it by the tail and dip the whole thing in hot clear thin plastic up just past the colouring for just a second , in and out , which seals it all in , then I hang it in a cardboard box I made with slots in by the tail to dry , there is a little drip on the end which i just snip off , they look loverly Jubberly,

Like the idea of using glue to hold glitter on the surface of the lure.

use heat insted of mend it, locks in all of the color and you dont have to destroy anyting by touching it :) great video and love your work! // lurebuilder in sweden!

Well done, Paul. Inspiring as always. Looking forward to seeing you next upload.... very intriguing! The quality of your videos has grown fantastically over the years mate.. well done!!

Short and sweet but very effective, as always quality vid, cheers!

Hey paul, thanks so much for the great video content as with your inspiration I've started to make my own lures, I've only made a few so far and the first couple I actually painted with straight nail polish but now I've got my air brush to work I've been using it and actually getting some pretty good patterns which Im very happy about, thanks again for making such great and helpful videos and I hope you had a great Easter 🐣

Nice video thanks for showing me this

Good idea! Congratulations for this wonderful RU-vid channel! I subscribe without hesitation!

Your videos are great. Love your attention to detail.

the master taught me how to make whatever the material is the teacher

Once again, a great watch, very informative. I just purchased some chrome nail powder from EBay to try on my own timber hard bodies.......

Very nice idea

"Another quality video fella, Great work, Well done!"

TY not even making lures but I can use your technique for my project, good vid.

As usual ... excellent work Paul! ;

You know this job. Greetings from Türkiye.

To prevent the color bleeding problem you could, in theory, use more of that finger nail powder instead of permanent markers. I am sure it comes in a variety of colors. Granted it would likely take longer to apply and would most likely cost more. But I think for small details like the red fin it wouldn't take much longer. Who knows maybe there is a place where you can buy this powder in bulk quantities at a discounted price. It would be interesting to come back to this lure in one years time and see a side by side comparison of how big a problem this color bleeding is.

You are best Paul 😉

very nice, just love your work

👍👍Thxs for the tips !

hand made baits...fine video..

I use spike it and a q tip to paint my plastics

Any suggestions on alternative dyes for soft plastic? Food coloring, air brush paints, marker inserts?

Thanks for sharing, going to give this a try..

Does the clear plastic fix put off a foul smell? Do pike use sense of smell? I know fish around here do not go for odd smelling baits I use air dry acrylic colors... Or you can paint the areas of the mold certain colors BEFORE injecting the liquid plastic

Very helpful thanks so much. Can you make more soft plastic videos in the future?

Hey Paul one more thing you asked in the video how we color baits try useing nail polish.

Enjoyed watching Paul. Wierd how that ink bleeds like that. Is there anythjng that would seal the plastic to keep the ink on the surface

Another great video. Just wondering if you have tried to dip the finished lures in a thinned out clear plastic? I do this after applying eyes and that seams to make them bulletproof.

Please make a bait for at sea sir. Thank you very helpful video

Micas of different colors can be dabbed on a soft plastics that has been softened with a hot air gun. it is necessary to dip them in clear liquid plastisol to permanenetly seal. Clear dip may also seal sharpie colored plastics (though I haven't tried itI). TBKtrading.com for micas. I use micas in Etex for coloring my metal jigs. Alumidust is probably the same as micas.

Hello Paul is Aurélien of the team "Yes We Craft" in France, tell me, seeing your video it made me think of something. Do you know what sort of painting is used for the decoration of Frog "hollow body"? I imagine that the material used is a kind of latex but can I use classic paintings (Tamya or createx)? If you have the answer I am taker because I think to make for this summer. Thank you Paul

Wish I found this channel months ago! This is great. Will the nail polish colors also bleed through the bait in time? Also do you think regular spray paint in the can will stick and dry to large soft plastic swimbaits? Was looking for an easy way to paint my trout swimbaits white is all... Keep up the good work man.

Excellent video

You make awesome videos

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I have been following makelure and alumilite for lure building tutorials. I have been buying Copic markers and I'll be using alumilite Metalic powders as well I have a question about heating that finger nail glitter. can you heat the plastic and bond it I think that works too ??

I put a red soft platic bait next to a white one and forgot about it. When I found them they both were red. Funny how that happens.

Great Paul. Have you tried spray painting them?

when you paint with a airbrush do you use waterbase paint? i can only find a water base paint gun

great video!...do you have any advice for fish belly white?

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Hard Plastic Crankbaits to Soft Rubber Crankbaits. I will use the Berkley Flicker Minnow as the example. The Berkely Flicket Minnow is a hard shelled crankbait. But I want the same lure, hooks and bill, to be part of a rubber lure of the same design. Using a Do-It mould for hard plastic lure making, how would I set the bill and hooks in the mould so that as the hot goop is poured into the mould, the goop forms around the bill and hooks? Would the mould have be a special design to accommodate the two treble hooks attached the bill via stainless steel leader line crimped into a half barrel swivel so that rings can be used, or can the hooks be ran from three eyed barrel swivel instead? The three eyed barrel swivel would use one eye for the rod line, the trailing eye for the rear hook and the lower eye for the ventral or bottom hook. Hopefully this type of lure making will become a thing that will see airbrush paints for rubber worms used to airbrush the rubber body crankbait lure. Getting the bill into the soft body lure is easy. When making a mold of your favorite hard plastic lure, leave the bill on the lure. Order the same type of bill for your lure from a lure bill store. Drill holes in bill so the hot rubber will flow through the holes. The only way I can see this idea working is if the spin, bent wire, running from a weld or crimped area at the back of the bill to the rear hook, is created. With the bill resting in the mold bill slot, the bill should hold the spine and leg, second wire running to the bottom hook, in place. Resin might run out of the spine and leg holes, but that can be trimmed back to the body of the lure. The extra length of the spine and leg wires are then trimmed and twisted so a ring and hook can be attached.

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you aren't catching enough fish if you still have soft plastics from years ago, mate.

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