How to Enhance Your Lure Painting Technique with Metallics and Pearls

[@MakeItTakeItOutdoors]

Figured I might as well start painting baits again and found your channel. Great stuff!

[@lureblanks]

Thank you so much for the compliment! Great to hear that you are pitching it up again. Some passions will always keep coming back in our lives 😄

[@labtrainer09]

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

[@lureblanks]

Thank you Chris! That is amazing to hear! Appreciate the comment 🙏!

[@timpaterson5154]

Thanks for making these videos. Very helpful as my lure paining journey begins.

[@lureblanks]

Great to hear that! Thank you and always nice to know that the world of lure painting is expanding still with more creative minds! 🎨🐟

[@michaelthompson1185]

Thanks brother, very nice tutorial. I truly received beautiful tips. I love watching you airbrush. You know so much thank you so so much brother!!!🎣🎣🎣

[@lureblanks]

Thank you so much for the kind words! 🙏 really appreciate that! 🙏😊

[@endscreen1shorts478]

Wow man that i need i order pearl White for fish scale and sparkling silver , look nice on black base , thank you

[@lureblanks]

Yea pearls are awesome! 😄you are welcome!

[@keales9564]

Thank you, love your tutorials! ( I recently bought stencils from you, I'm from Hawai'i)

[@lureblanks]

Yea I remember! Thank you for the compliment and I loved the comment you added with your order 😄 thought it was cool 😁

[@keales9564]

@@lureblanks Looking forward to your next tutorial! I'm always eager to learn new things. I'm @rokulures on IG. I make lures for GT fishing.

[@lureblanks]

@@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 👍😁

[@gabifishing642]

Nice job well done

[@lureblanks]

Thank you! Appreciate the comment!

[@dmanpro2020]

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.

[@lureblanks]

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 😁!

[@kalavalheet]

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.

[@lureblanks]

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

[@djradrs199]

Looks Like I'm heading to Dollar Tree to buy some Spoone !! 🤟

[@lureblanks]

Haha yea they are always helpful!

[@endscreen1shorts478]

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 KZbin, 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?

[@lureblanks]

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)

[@markoharoldoronearmedpoohb7816]

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.

[@lureblanks]

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.

[@martinstephan8077]

what kind of stencil did you use at 1:30 min. ?

[@lureblanks]

That is this one lureblanks.eu/lure-parts/stencils/stencil-15-cm-x-30-cm-1.html 👍