Here are a few plugs I did using oil paints. Createx is a little on the expensive side so I am working on switching over to oils. They are harder to work with and a lot messier but cost is less that 5% of createx. ( not initially because I bought quarts) Colrs are not as varied so mixing is in order. This isn't as easy as I thought it would be either. The surfster on left is supposed to be black over purple not black over grey. I guess it will be easier to have colors mixed at Lowes or Home Depot.

nice plugs... i like the olive/black eye one

:kewl:

Jr Link

nice.:D

Still cranking them out :kewl: What kind of clean up do you have to do with the oil paints? How about the fumes?

Jigman

Clean up is kind of a pain, I use mineral spirits to cut the paint and clean the airbrushes so fumes are minimal.

Hmmmmmmmm -- plugs. :D

Surfster - I don't have one of those (yet). ;) That "abnormal" one of the left looks like a good to me. :)

Dave,

I can help you out in the color mixing and supply avenues if you want, I work in a paint store and have for the last 4 years, with a short hiatus when I roofed (what was I thinking?). I have a lot of color mixing experience and I would suggest buying a color wheel and a set of UTCs (Unversal Tinting Compounds). The color wheel can really help you when correcting colors, for example, if you were making an olive color and it came out looking too green, finding green on the color wheel and adding the color (RED) which is directly across from it will cancel out the green. It takes some practice, but it beats having quarts mixed, the best thing to do would be to buy a gallon of each base, pastel, medium, deep and ultra and tint them using the UTCs. Mixing colors that are premade, you never really know what colors go into them so you will end up with grey purples etc. And having the bases and UTCs would allow you to mix small quantities of any color you can think of. Other helpful hints would be to buy penetrol to mix with your colors... not you whites or pastels though it yellows light colors. This would make it spray better and give it some translucency for pearl-x pigments ets. I have considered going to oils myself but the mess is too much for me along with the slow dry times. Hope this helps and if you need something let me know.

-Dave

Still nice looking plugs ..How about dry time Newelly ? Does it stink when its drying ,..., Gotta keep momma happy.

Newell guy, i have been using oil based paints from day one, with no problems. as canal man said get your self a paint wheel and keep a record of your mixtures. i try to paint all my lures at once so clean up is not that bad. when doing a few plugs at a time its a pain any way

nice:hee:

Great Purple Eel imitation! Thanks again for that Surfster it's awesome!:D

Love the colors. You know, all the fancy paint jobs catch fisrmen. The standard colors catch fish. I have been sticking to white/yellow with gray scales, white/blue gray scales. Green/white and plain old white and all black. Caught a ton of fish over 20# last year and never threw anything that I would consider a radical color

Nice stuff there! Did you take the knife to the other swimmers you had laying around to make the bottle darters? I like the surfsters, mmmmmm surfster:drool:

Hi Vic, yes these are modified Gibbs plugs

You got the nib bottle darter didnt you? mmmmm bottle darter, 54 more days til spring. Nice stuff as always Dave!

Blue topped surfster!

Great job...that one is calling me cousin!

Those eyes look terrific....as if in fear of a predator... you know I`m not a builder but I`ve been wondering about realism in the eyes....seems many fish have a silvery eye with black pupil but on all sorts of plugs I see quite a range of colored eyes.

Any thoughts?

Mike

Those are glass eyes, my favorite but on the spendy side compared to molded eyes.