Pink Powder Paint Question

[Jaxon2]

Im painting some jigheads with pro tec powder paint. Im wanting to make a 2 color chartreuse/hot pink jighead for walleye fishing. However, after I bake the jigs the hot pink looks more like a fluorescent orange. I was wondering if anyone has any tips.

 

Im still new to powder painting. What I did was powder paint all my jigs white. Next I coated them all chartreuse because I want that as the primary color. Lastly, I added the hot pink.

 

Im wondering if I baked them too hot or too long? I set the oven to 300 and left the jigs for 15 min. Or if its putting the pink on top of the chartreuse that is making it look more fluorescent orange.

 

Thanks

[cadman]

Yes, all of the things you tried, as you have found out caused a disaster, and yes this is common especially with dark colors over light colors like yellow chartreuse. This is what you can do

 

#1 Put your base white color over your entire jig. Put on your second to last color. To me that would be the color over your lower half (belly) of the jig.

#2 Now go and bake your jig. Take all of your jigs out, and let them cool.

#3, Take them over your heat source again, and reheat the jig thoroughly, (do not burn the paint), once jig is hot, put your last color over the area you want to cover.  Heat this through, so the polymers can cross link, and you should be good to go. Once your paint is all glossy you should be fine

#4 Now sometimes if your lucky and depends on who makes the paint, you can toss these back into the oven and bake them through, without any color change.

#5 Bake only one jig to see if you don't get the paint change again. If you do, don't do anymore of them, and just leave the second color on without baking.

 

Let us know how it goes.

Edited April 21, 2016 by cadman

[gaspumper]

When I do hot pink I never put a base coat of white on first,just dip in hot pink powder then tap on my second color.

[Jaxon2]

Appreciate the feedback!!

[LimpNoodle]

I use the pink from Rosey's and never put white under it.

[BLT]

I think the white base coat makes the pink "pop" more.  I only use one cup for my fluid bed, and that is white, everything else is tapped on.

[smalljaw]

I have a transparent or candy pink, if I want to do walleye colors I go with a white base first but if it isn't a candy color I don't. What Cadman told you will work, I had the same problem with a color called "Tablerock shad" It had a chartreuse body with a purple back and when I would cure it the purple would turn brown. So the way to fix it is to put your chartreuse on first and then cure it and let it cool and then go back and do the pink and you'll be fine. What is happening is the pink is mixing with the chartreuse enough to form another color, but when you cure it and let it cool, it will set the first color hard so that when you heat your jig and apply the pink and then cure, it won't get soft enough for the color to mix and then you'll end up with the 2 colors you started with.

[Jaxon2]

Thanks again everyone for the help. The tips helped and I got the colors/pattern I wanted.

[BLT]

I think the white base coat makes the pink "pop" more.  I only use one cup for my fluid bed, and that is white, everything else is tapped on.

I wrote p.o.p. (without the comas), and it came out plaster of paris? Is this an auto correct feature?

Edited April 22, 2016 by BLT

[RayburnGuy]

I wrote pop, and it came out plaster or paris?

 

It's a glitch in the software BLT.

 

Ben

[Basseducer]

Well MODS, when is this going to get fixed?

[gone2long]

Well MODS, when is this going to get fixed?

 

HaHa that's funny it's been going on for many moons just don't think its a priority, but for the vetrans we know what ya meant! 

[RayburnGuy]

HaHa that's funny it's been going on for many moons just don't think its a priority, but for the vetrans we know what ya meant! 

 

X2  Been like that for at least a year so don't count on it getting fixed anytime soon. Like gone2long said pretty much everybody knows about it and don't give it a second thought.

 

Ben

[andy1976]

I do a lot of fluorescent pink and I never base coat. I just lay it on a little heavy. I did recently received some fluorescent red inside of a new jar of one pound of fluorescent pink. Florescent red is the only color I have to base coat. It's kind of translucent and looks orangish red without the white base. Here's a pic of Protec pink glow with a little of Columbia's pink mixed it. Kinda makes it pop.(p0p)

Edited April 23, 2016 by andy1976

[Fatman]

Never had that problem - wondering if you got the white too hot and maybe scorched it a little.  This is some I've done and no orange color on it. No undercoat, base coated the whole jig in chartreuse and then tapped the pink over the top.  

 

Then switched around with chartreuse on bottom and pink tapped on top

 

Chartreuse is from Janns and the hot pink is from Rosy's.