Watermelon help

[Chris]

I have just started pouring my own baits and am having trouble creating a color. I am trying to create the Garry Yamamoto Watermelon with large green flake. I really like that version of watermelon but can't seem to get it. My version is not as deep green even when I add more color. My current closest receipt is 1/2 cup 536, 4 drops heat stabilizer, 16 drops watermelon and 1 drop black(just added this part to try and darken it up). All lurecraft supplies. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

[alsworms]

Hey Chris,

Sounds like you're on the right track. I use black to darken any color. If you're not using any salt, I would suggest going lighter on the watermelon and add more black. Another option is to get MF brand brown watermelon and add it to the Lure Craft melon. The brown melon is more of a darker, cloudy color.

Hope this helps.

By the way, nice name you got there.

Chris

[Fuzzerr]

Believe it or not but I add black/grape to my watermelon to darken it. You will have to play with this according to the amount of salt that you use. Here is my heavy salt watermelon:

4oz plastic

8 drops Watermelon

4 drops black/grape

Fuzz

[alsworms]

Fuzz,

I mixed those two colors one time and got a perfect root beer copy. BUT.....I mixed equal parts melon and black grape. I would never have thought those two would make root beer.

Sometime if you get the chance, try it and see if you get the same results.

[Mac10]

You can also try this idea in darkening colors. In paint mixing, red and green being opposites....a touch of one will darken the other....a touch of red will darken the green, and vice versa. The advantage of using an opposite color is that the red, when darkened with green, will stay in the red family of color whereas in mixing it with black, it will get darker, but will start to go toward a muddy gray of sorts....it will lose the reddish glow of redness along the way. It doesn't take much to darken a color....if mixed half and half for example it turns a yucky brownish gray-black, in general yuck....so just a drop or two at a time and stir well.

green and red

blue and orange

yellow and purple will all darken each other. As some of the posting has mentioned already, it gets really neat when you are mixing but are not using the pure colors. A blue purple darkens a yellow differently than a redish purple. An orangy red darkens a green differently as well. When you can, try adding red to the watemelon, just a drop at a time and see what happens.