Lure Paints.

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tauruck

Sealiner
I was just looking at getting Createx paints for painting lures.

Bliksem.

R216 for a 60ml bottle of paint.

There are about 40 colours I'd like and some are more expensive.

R8640 to set up with paint.

80 lures to make just to break even.

Automotive paint for me.

I thought I'd do my bit for the enviroment but at these prices that can wait.

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Klipdrift

Senior Member
That is heavy. I'm paying £19.50 for a pack of 6 x 60ml bottles of createx paints on this side of the world. That's more like R40 odd a bottle.
 
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Weasel

Member
Hi bud.

I have been a keen follower off your posts and has come up with some awesome ideas thanks to you.

I bought myself a airbrush setup but haven't started at all. Been doing allot of video watching on the net.

Please help!!!!!!

What type of paint do you use? Is it 2K?

Thx
 
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Klipdrift

Senior Member
I've tried that but it seems to make the paint run. It might be something I did. I even tried with the finest dusting of spray under low pressure but it didn't work for me. I've found paint used on screen printing to be quite good and cheap, it cures with heat, IE; blowdryer, no running thereafter.
 
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benniejordaan

Sealiner
There are a lot of advantages to using automotive paints.

1. affordable
2. Very tough and durable
3. Doesn't fade
4. Good available selection
5. Can get "over runs cheap". I got some pearls at R50 per litre. I ask, and if there is a small amount left over from a special mixing, they usually give it to me for free.
 
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Little Green Fish

Sealiner
This post is only in-line with the paint part of the heading, but I received my soft plastic paint from accross the sea two days ago and ended up paying around R1500 for 10 x 120ml bottles which brings it roughly down to R150 / bottle which is crazy I suppose but it's worth it, all the issues with retaining structural detail and the near perfect colours and patterns is something of the past, this stuff works like nobodies business, I'm already making up the list for the new order to be processed sometime early next week, just gotta sort out some blokes garage floor first.

Candy apple paints? Is R60 for 250ml's expensive or within range?
 
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benniejordaan

Sealiner
Little Green Fish wrote:
This post is only in-line with the paint part of the heading, but I received my soft plastic paint from accross the sea two days ago and ended up paying around R1500 for 10 x 120ml bottles which brings it roughly down to R150 / bottle which is crazy I suppose but it's worth it, all the issues with retaining structural detail and the near perfect colours and patterns is something of the past, this stuff works like nobodies business, I'm already making up the list for the new order to be processed sometime early next week, just gotta sort out some blokes garage floor first.

Candy apple paints? Is R60 for 250ml's expensive or within range?
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I paid R80 per litre of candy colours.

Come to think of it, candy colours are actually dies and not really paints so should work well for you??
 
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Little Green Fish

Sealiner
Bennie I'm not so sure about if it'll work on the soft plastics, as it is diluted with 2k thinners, which seems to attack the soft plastic, but I might just as well give it a try and see, there's tons of old plastisol lying around..... actually donated a junebug grub to the paintstore a friend owns and dropped it into some thinners they had open mixing stuff, awaiting feedback.
 
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benniejordaan

Sealiner
Little Green Fish wrote:
Bennie I'm not so sure about if it'll work on the soft plastics, as it is diluted with 2k thinners, which seems to attack the soft plastic, but I might just as well give it a try and see, there's tons of old plastisol lying around..... actually donated a junebug grub to the paintstore a friend owns and dropped it into some thinners they had open mixing stuff, awaiting feedback.
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Cool, worth a try. Big difference between airbrushing and chucking it into a tub of thinners. With an airbrush, it is virtually immediately dry. Anyway, let us know.
 
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Little Green Fish

Sealiner
Will do, it's just the type of thinners that I need to identify that won't leave the soft plastic tacky, ordinary laquer thinners isn't the way to go, I'm now trying 2k and even tried something called e-thinners which also doesn't work. Tried benzine, and even alcohol these evaporate just far too quick to be an effective medium for the plastisol paint, thing is I can get the specialised plastisol thinners from over there but it costs an arm a leg and half my left kidney to get the stuff here, no I;ve even received info that a special paint retarder is the way to go, which I suspect will make up the new order for early this week coming...... and there goes the credit card again.
 
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