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Percabrutus, Welcome to TU! The swim baits look great. This is definatly not the place to find help for a plastic addiction, we all encourage the abuse All we can do is help feed your addiction, and by the way if you are married go ahead and buy your wife something very nice and expensive, that will help you when you place your next order for molds and supplies.

You gotta work fast and neat for sure. I had dowels in my patterns, so I could just put em rite together quick, and just squeeze like hell for 15 seconds. No clamps.You will need some acetone and an Xacto blade handy, cause I promise you that you will glue your fingers to the sides every now and then.Sorry if the pic is uber big.

Are you using createx? That is awesome if the paint isn't peeling with Solarez uncured for 45minutes.

I have been trying a new paint that is a water based paint that works on plastic but needs to be dipped after either in plastic or clear paint from Lureworks. BUT a new one is being shipped to me right now and does not need to be dipped. It can be shipped out of the country and smells way better than the one offered now. I really could not say anything before but now it is about to hit the market. AND it is from Lureworks. There has been a lot of work that has gone into this and I am sure it will have its growing pains. But being water based it can be used as a dotting paint or reduced to air brush it. There will be a clear that dry pearls can be added to. The best part about the clear is that it is a bonding agent too. In other words if you use laminate plates you can pour all the baits you want and coat the side that will be bonded so it will become one when poured again. You can coat Mylar and insert into a bait and it will become part of the bait. Need to play with it more like that but gives me plenty of ideas. Also for the dotting of eyes and spots I have been using a flow pen from passhe. It uses no air and is gravity feed. You can leave it in the brush all day and it never dries out. Don told me his children were playing with it all day and no smell. You cant do that with the other paint. You can get paint that becomes part of soft plastic baits and does not come off. Might be a challenge to paint an old bait but I don't do that. Lureworks is really working on some nice stuff for all of us. It should be out in the next few weeks so look for it. Frank