How to get speckles on crank baits

[Rnd101]

I recently saw some crank baits with speckles of black paint or blue paint that was airbrushed randomly throughout the bait. Anyone know how one would achieve this look? Thanks!

[DingerBaits]

you can use a tooth brush to flick it on there, or load up your airbrush tip and make a splatter effect with it. you will need to practice it to make sure you get the right look

[Hughesy]

Dinger is right. The tooth brush method works well. You can also try putting a straw over the end of your air brush and shoot the drops on.

[Benzin555]

Great looking paint job. You could always ask the person that did it. Who painted it? Where did I get the pic from. 

[Rnd101]

i believe i got this picture off of facebook.

 

[DingerBaits]

Rnd101, the guy who commented before was the painter of this and is a good friend of mine. If you do borrow pictures like this, we like to give credit to the painter. Just common courtesy around here. 

[Benzin555]

I did paint it but I was just being funny. No worries. The previous posts were correct. It's called stippling. Many ways to accomplish it but I prefer to load the brush and then rapidly hit the trigger. Here is another example. I like to add a couple different colors when doing the stippling as on many craws the colors vary. 

[Dl07]

Great looking craws

[Rnd101]

On 2/8/2018 at 1:10 PM, DingerBaits said:

Rnd101, the guy who commented before was the painter of this and is a good friend of mine. If you do borrow pictures like this, we like to give credit to the painter. Just common courtesy around here. 

gotcha sorry i wasn't sure who painted it.

[mark poulson]

On 2/8/2018 at 11:10 AM, DingerBaits said:

Rnd101, the guy who commented before was the painter of this and is a good friend of mine.

 

Doesn't the sort of cast suspicion on him right from the start?

[Benzin555]

it was a joke Mark

[mark poulson]

3 hours ago, Benzin555 said:

it was a joke Mark

Hahaha.  I guess it's hard to see me smiling through the keyboard.

[Anglinarcher]

On 2/8/2018 at 12:15 PM, Benzin555 said:

I did paint it but I was just being funny. No worries. The previous posts were correct. It's called stippling. Many ways to accomplish it but I prefer to load the brush and then rapidly hit the trigger. Here is another example. I like to add a couple different colors when doing the stippling as on many craws the colors vary. 

A dumb question if I may?  I have always done this, as a hobbyist, with the brush flicking. 

Do you have a video of how you "load the brush and then rapidly hit the trigger"?

[DingerBaits]

Pull the trigger back with out pushing it down will load the tip, then just hit the air on and then off.  Depending on what air brush you have you can removed two of the front pieces just so the needle and cap are left and it will load the tip when you try to spray it since the air flow will not be directed towards the tip.  I have an Iwata that i do my splatter patterns with.

[ScottV]

Another way to get a splatter effect is to use a small piece of sea sponge. Wet the sponge and squeeze the water out. Then lightly touch the bait with a small amount of paint. 

[mark poulson]

19 hours ago, DingerBaits said:

Pull the trigger back with out pushing it down will load the tip, then just hit the air on and then off.  Depending on what air brush you have you can removed two of the front pieces just so the needle and cap are left and it will load the tip when you try to spray it since the air flow will not be directed towards the tip.  I have an Iwata that i do my splatter patterns with.

 

Thanks for the technique share.  I'll try it next timer I'm painting.

I have been just using a fine tip sharpie to add a random series of dots.  Your method seems like it would be a lot easier, and more efficient.

[dog1660]

I really like the sponge way to do it as well. I have been doing it that way a lot lately and really like the effect you can get, very easy to go heavy or as light as you want. Very effective technique.

[Munkin]

All my paint jobs have the splatter effect whether I am trying or not.

 

Allen 

[Munkin]

On ‎2‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 2:15 PM, Benzin555 said:

I did paint it but I was just being funny. No worries. The previous posts were correct. It's called stippling. Many ways to accomplish it but I prefer to load the brush and then rapidly hit the trigger. Here is another example. I like to add a couple different colors when doing the stippling as on many craws the colors vary. 

 

Do you give lessons on painting baits? I am like 45 minutes away and would pay for the instruction.

 

Allen

[Matt Moreau]

I struggle with this technique!  

I have tried like Benton suggested with a straw and just made a mess LOL. Sea sponge, ripped sponge, stencil dottied with wood burner, tape, geez I have tried them all.

I have tried loading like Benzin but never took the front two shrouds off the brush I will have to try that. When I was experimenting with this technique I had to reduce the more than normal like 2:1 to get the best results. Do you guys do this with the shrouds off? What paints are you using? I mainly use createx when I care about the paintjob otherwise walmart 50 cent apple barrel and thinner baby! HEHE

[Tuna]

Just thin paint more than normal, turn up air pressure and pulse your trigger. Many times I accidentally splatter but like the effect on most of my baits. 

[FishCandy]

You can just lower the pressure on the compressor, until your airbrush starts to spit out bigger drops, instead of atomizing the paint. Might take a little experimenting to get the right size stipple. Works with my Badger, anyway!

[bobv]

Google up "stippling effect with an airbrush"  lots of info out there!

 

[eastman03]

Haha, I was going to say the same.  Trying to paint with lower pressure, especially with my black opaque paint, it kinda gums up on the tip and I end up with this effect accidentally.  I was hoping to not spatter the baits.