All Eyes

Yes I brush it on and turn them on a wheel.

Love the iridescent haze and overall paint job on these. Outstanding!

Exceptional! Awesome looking bait.

TY! I use a minimum of 2 coats of EnviroTex epoxy on my baits.

Thanks a lot Mark! One thing I've learned from my mistakes is to clear the basic paint job in epoxy before adding details such as fins or other close up stuff. That way if you mess up it's easy to wipe it off with alcohol and keep trying until you get it right. I have ruined plenty of nice paint jobs trying to get too fancy.

Stunning!

Thanks Mark! My vision and shakey hands get worse every year. The smaller baits can be challenging some times.

Thanks Mark. If you find that it's making spots that are too large or just making an uncontrollable mess, turn your pressure down. Practice on scrap until you get comfortable. I've screwed up quite a few paint jobs trying to get cute.

Thanks Mark. The black specs is a technique called stippling done by turning the pressure down to almost nothing on the airbrush. Pull the trigger back to load the tip with paint and then it spits when you press the trigger.

The bill in this bait has the line tie molded into it. I've had several packs of these laying around a while, so thought I would use some.

Thank you both for the nice comments. All of them start with a white base coat. The neon ones get the top color first, which gets faded into the sides a bit. Fluorescent pink on one and transparent Caribbean blue on the other. Then the sides and belly are done in fluorescent yellow. The greenish color you see is the Caribbean blue over top of the yellow. No green was used on either of them. The throat/belly area is done last in fluorescent orange. All are Createx colors. It looks like there are more colors, but it's just the overlay of the blue transparent. The pink bait is done in 4 colors, and the blue one is 3. Hope that makes sense.

Thank you!

Thanks Mark. I picked those eyes up on E-Bay. They really look cool on certain baits. If I remember right, they were referred to as snake eyes. Makes a bait look almost possessed.

Incredible! All of these that you posted are great looking work.

This bait looks dynamite! Love the details in the paint job. Very nice.