glitter colors?

[clemmy]

Hey all,

Just getting ready to jump into the soft plastics, slowly been aquiring the neccessary tools, salt, etc. So far I've just been coming up with color combos in my head, who knows what they'll look like when actually made.

The thing that makes this tuff for me is that I have no idea what the glitters actually look like. The best I've been able to do is examine your guys's baits in the gallery. For example I read earlier that the purple flake is not a true purple, how light is light royal blue, is blue/black like gun barrel blueing, etc, etc..

I was hoping next time some of you have your digital camera out to take a pic of your latest soft creation, would you mind taking the lids off your glitter jars and snapping a pic of the bunch? No rush, as I'm at least a month or two away from "the big order", but this would help me out a bunch! Perhaps the "Glitter Guy" would also show us his wares.

How's his glitter test going now that I think of it...is it standing up to the heat?

Thanks all!

Craig

[Senkosam]

Clemmy, no negative reports. Colors do no come out true when uploaded to the site and even more so when put in colored plastic. The cookbook of colors is a guide but variations will always occur depending on exact amounts (color concentration of the plastic) used. i.e. Fuscia will appear as a bright purple when put in blue or purple plastic.

If everyone only used clear or slight tints of a certain hue, flake color would hold, but that's rarely the case. When using pearl or mica powder + clear plastic, flake color stands out. The flake color is precise because both colorants are suspended in clear and do not tint the plastic. You see this affect in some laminates, especially those that use only pearl in the mix. (i.e. copper pearl and .015 blue flake)

Salt and opaque colors mute flake color the most, which is why I use larger flakes when I want the color to come through at the surface of the plastic. (.062-.090) Yamamoto has a salt and pepper design that uses large flakes of black, copper and silver in clear plastic that was very successful in lower light (clouds, setting sun). I've modified that to large black and chartreuse flakes, medium silver flakes in a chartreuse tint (similar to Zoom's Margarita, Fat Albert color).

Lastly, overhead light color and intensity affect how flake colors appear. This includes the color of water (tanin, muddy, green etc.) To see what a fish sees, you would have to be eye-balling the colors at the same depth and angle to the lure as a fish and have a fish's eyes and brain to know what it is actually seeing. (Maybe humans are all color blind and only fish can see the actual color underwater. Maybe different fish species see colors differently. )

FrankM