My last spray-can lures

[chokka 123]

Ive been working the whole week on these two lures. They are by far my best work to date.I have also bought some duco paint, primer and 2-k clearcoat so i'm desperately searching for a airbrush.

These are both sinking jerkbaits, i'm sending them with a friend to test in Botswana , hopefully they will nail the tigers

 

[chokka 123]

.this photo does not do both these lures justice, the 'scales' carved onto the foil looks like wrinkles

 

[fai-lure]

I only saw this now... Looks good! I like the red gills. Red gills are underrated! Any feedback on the tigers?

 

[Limpopoking]

Howzit Chokka. I'm not an expert on airbrushing but to my knowledge, you can't spray duco or 2k with an airbrush. You can only use airbrush "inks" for the colour and then overcoat with clear coat from a normal spray gun.

I bought myself an airbrush to mess about with then discovered that, once I had thinned the paint sufficiently to flow through the airbrush, it was too transparent to provide real colour. I then had to find (at quite a huge expense) airbrushing inks (actually paint but referred to as "ink").

Perhaps Bennie can give us some of his wisdom on the subject.

 

[caesar]

Limpopoking wrote:

Howzit Chokka. I'm not an expert on airbrushing but to my knowledge, you can't spray duco or 2k with an airbrush. You can only use airbrush "inks" for the colour and then overcoat with clear coat from a normal spray gun.

I bought myself an airbrush to mess about with then discovered that, once I had thinned the paint sufficiently to flow through the airbrush, it was too transparent to provide real colour. I then had to find (at quite a huge expense) airbrushing inks (actually paint but referred to as "ink").

Perhaps Bennie can give us some of his wisdom on the subject.

I have been spraying 2k with my airbrush for months now without any problems.

 

[oomfaan]

Me too. I just played around with the pressure. 2K thinned only 10%. And I use an elcheepo airbrush.

 

[Limpopoking]

Thanks for that info guys... will try that later today. Do you also spray colours in 2k or just clear coat?

 

[oomfaan]

I spray my colors in normal duco and just put a 2k clearcoat, 2 coats over. I just have white, black and the 3 primary colors, yellow, red and blue. and I mix all other colors from them.

 

[Little Green Fish]

Been spraying 2K colours, candy apple colours and even a rather thickish plastisol paint (which requires a special thinning agent) with my airbrushes for more than a year now and two of them are 0,2mm nozzles, and no probs, same appalies to the clear coat and even the metalic silver candy apple base coats, no probs with the airbrushes.

 

[Limpopoking]

Cool. Thanks guys. What pressure are you running?

 

[chokka 123]

thanks for the input guys! my friend only caught a small dwarf tiger so no good pics sorry.

 

[Patrick]

I use a white water based primer, water based acrylic paint and cover it with clear 2K, with an airbrush. Work ok for me.

Nice thing with the water based stuff is its easy to clean and cheap! These 2 were made with this method.

 

[Limpopoking]

Good looking stuff there mate! Do you use particular brands and what sort of pressure are you running on the airbrush?

 

[Patrick]

Thanks. Bru to be honest I dont check what pressure i'm spraying at. I've a really old compressor that my work colleauge gave me.  I just let the thing run for a while til there's enough pressure, test spray on a bit of newspaper and then let rip. I use a crude wire/rubber band device that allows me to turn the lure as i spray it which helps get the coat on evenly. The airbrush is one of these Builders Warehouse cheapies.

I'll check tonight what make the primer and 2k is. The paint I know is Dala craft paint. Must say the success with the water based acrylic is down to the primer that i use. It's great stuff and sticks to the Smooth Cast plastic lure very well.

 

[caesar]

I spray at between 40 and 55 PSI. Higher pressure for bigger surface spraying and lower for more detailed spraying like thin lines. This is how I do it, not to say it is the ideal pressures. I "played" around a lot when I got my airbrush. Experiment with your airbrush on paper and see what works for you.

 

[Little Green Fish]

I normally run anything between 3 and 4 on my compressor rather large industrial one, but as ceaser said lower for more detail and higher for larger areas, i also find that closing the nozzle a bit leeting out the least ammount of paint makes my brushing a whole lot better, so rather spary ten times getting the effect than spraying twice and it looks overdone!

 

[caesar]

Little Green Fish wrote:

I normally run anything between 3 and 4 on my compressor rather large industrial one, but as ceaser said lower for more detail and higher for larger areas, i also find that closing the nozzle a bit leeting out the least ammount of paint makes my brushing a whole lot better, so rather spary ten times getting the effect than spraying twice and it looks overdone!

Jip do not try and cover an area with too much paint at a time. I use to do that. You gave me this tip a while back and my airbruching improved 100%.

 

[Little Green Fish]

Cool man, i just haven't used mine in a very long while now and sortof forgot about that and did two poppers without any, absolutely NO patience and yes, now i have to sand them down and start all over again

 

[Limpopoking]

Gave it a bash with white 2k yesterday and yep, sprayed without any difficulty. Messed a bit with pressures and paint viscosity and no problems. Thanks for all the tips.

 

[CornelDelport]

I noticed this is a rather old posting , but being a new member 2 hours in fact. I am still finding my way... The paint subject... I have been useing DALA Acrylic Drawing Ink with no proplems at all .You need the Dala Acrylic Retarder,mix to the ratio of your choice and you will have no tip drying problems at all.Works on wood,metal,and plastics . As soon as I find the correct forum for this I will post my findings up to now

Sorry about the poor picture no close-up camera..