Maypo1979 Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 I am new to painting crankaits with an airbrush, and I am looking for some help with recommendations on my first order of Createx paints. I am trying to paint color schemes similar to the following commercialy available patterns: Norman: Green Joe Norman: Sun Chartreuse/Blue Bagley: Chartreuse Crayfish Bagley: Firetiger Rebl: Bone Orange Any help with recommended colors, extenders, size bottles, etc would be appreciated. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtrs5kprs Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 Size of bottle will depend on how much you intend to paint, and how much you like the paint. On colors, at a minimum: Pro Flow White (x-treme opaque white for base coats...shoot with #5 assembly) Opaque: Black, White, Yellow, Red Transparent regular: Leaf Green, Pthalo (sp?) Green, Dark Brown, Light Brown, Orange, Scarlet, Yellow, Gray, Red Pearl White Fluorescents: Sunburst, Red, Yellow (out of the bottle chartreuse), Green (lime for the f-tiger) Hi-Lite or Chameleon colors: All of them...Gold, Blue, Violet, Green Additives: Retarder (slows tip drying, aids color blends), Extender (to increase transparency), Transparent Medium (use for mixing colors & decreasing a color value). Also invest in some Createx cleaner. For the bone/orange color I use Golden Acrylic Titan Buff in Golden medium and mixed to the correct shade with C-tex browns and yellows. Best bone color I have found. Should be able to mix to most colors you need with the colors listed above. My most used colors (except for white base coat) are the Flo Yellow, Flo Orange (bellies), Leaf Green, and the 2 browns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maypo1979 Posted March 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Thanks for everything Dave, I placed the order tonight from DixieArt.com. I was able to get the 4 oz bottles of most colors at about the same price that Michaels and A.C.Moore wanted for 2 oz bottles. I ordered the Pro Flo White in a 32 oz bottle. One question I had for you is what you meant by the "#5 Assembly" for the X-Treme white base coats. Thanks again, Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtrs5kprs Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Pro-Flow White shoots best thru a larger tip/cone/needle assembly. For Paasche this is a #5, for some others I think it is called 5mm. Basically, it is a thicker paint that requires a larger diameter set-up to shoot well, plus some thinning. Dixie has good pricing, but don't be surprised to run into some out of stock issues. They are not the best about informing you of outs. On my most recent order ($100+ of C-tex and parts) I included in the order message a request to be emailed about out of stock items...got a generic letter back about their out of stock policy Not thrilled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maypo1979 Posted March 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Thanks for the head's up Dave. I also didn't see the Golden brand of paints on their site. I may look for that locally this week. However the Bone pattern isn't one that I want to paint right away. Thanks again, Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtrs5kprs Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 The golden acryilic comes as pigment which needs to be added to their airbrush medium and thinned. It is a nice opaque paint...can get a color similar to the Rebel bone or the old Normans bone. I buy it at Michael's/Hobby Lobby (sorry...they are a few blocks from each other where I go, so I never remember where I find things...find some neat stuff looking though). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatnik13 Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 MAYPO1979 check your mail! if you didn't already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
