My first Attempt at Repainting A Crankbait

[RonB]

My first time every touching an airbrush too.
I decided to give this a try while waiting for my jig molds to arrive from Janns.

I used an old Manns deep diver yellow crankbait. the split rings and hooks are shot so I removed and pitched them. I used green painters tape and taped the bill up and suspended the bait on two snap swivels on a folding lladder.

I started out by lightly sanding the bait and painted with grey etching primer. After blow drying the etching primer and hitting it with fine steel wool, I opened a cheap airbrush I bought at Harbor Freight for $14.00 and painted the bait with some acrylic gold paint with 14 k gold flake. I put two coats on, blowdrying each coat. Next I taped some mesh over the bait to make scales and mixed some acrylic kelly green paint and painted the sides fading to the bottom and top.
For the last i mixed some forest green acrylic with some black acylic to get it darker and painted the top and vertical stripes that run down the sides.

I finished by brushing on a thin layer of top coat and sprinkled on some make up glitter I stole from my kid. After blow drying that coat, I did one more coat of clear.

I need to find some devcon epoxy I read about. and make up some way to spin the bait until that can dry. It was a lot of fun and I don't think it looks too terrible. I definately need more colors and air brush lessons. I couldn't figure out how to adjust my spray fine anough for what i want to do. I will buy a better airbrush if I get any better at this. I'm searching now for an airbrush class near me. I did find all the acrylic paint at hobby lobby for around $1.00 a bottle. The eyes are just "glow in the dark" stick ons I found locally.

It does look better than the pics I took with my 2mp phone.

I'm reading all the topics I can find...lots to leard about this!

Ron