10 inch Alewife

man vince that is top notch, best ive seen, great paint work,im gonna print a 8 by10 and put it next to my kids pictures. haha jody

Extremely neat job and bait design , ....as usual:yes: !

Hats off:worship: , ...........greetz , diemai:yay:

Superb

She's a beauty Vince! How deep will it run?

Douglas

outstanding

:yay::worship:

No clue what an Alewife is but my guess would be that it looks just like your bait. Love what you did with the paint coming down from the back of the head to the gill plates. Great looking bait!

ho hum........just another Fatfingers Masterpiece. Anything less and I would be sorely dissapointed. You do amaze me.

David

Thank you guys, very much. You're all very kind.

The gill plates were made by stenciling and the paint was created as follows:

White base coat.

Gray faded over the back and shoulders, very lightly. Spray darker gray over heavier netting.

Apply fine scaling material over the entire bait: then mist silver pearl over the sides only.

Apply large scaling over the back and shoulders: mist gold pearl over the back but only near the edge of the shoulders.

The head details came from a stencil and were painted in layers with a finally overlay of darker gold pearl above the gill plate near the eyes.

Belly: Fine scale material with light blue pearl shot heavy on the belly over the white. (Light blue pearl is a very subtle color and requires a lot to get a pronounced effect).

Fin: Made stencil and shot it two layers; gold pearl and white trim

Eye:. I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.

3 finish coats of epoxy. 3 others were laid down during the painting process between layers...give the bait a bit of depth.

Just curious.

If, by mistake, you would pass me the information about how to make such eyes, then how do you intend to kill me? http://www.tackleunderground.com/pho...milies/hmm.gifThere are some thousands of miles between us, but should I be affraid anyway?

It seems that people here do get bored when they realize you are not able to make anything less than masterpieces.http://www.tackleunderground.com/pho...lies/smile.gif

Oustanding.. I love it!

Grtz

Swap you a weeks fishing in Ireland for that one Vince.....I know some big pike that would like to bite that! Excellent