Got a bunch of A40's waiting for clear, Got Jerry S. Flaptails waiting for clear, Got a bunch goo goo's lrg waiting for paint, got a squid waiting for paint, got a hypno waiting to be wired, got needles waiting for primer. :sleeps:

'Timber's my best friend....

waaaay toooo much.

trying to get caught up, basement.. AAAAGGGHHH... ;)
right now, in order of importance... swap plugs, and Owseies, first, then a few fixed up ooopsies, and some bodies from a couple of other builders need to be finished... then a couple of new, (for me) styles... was hoping to make this my winter in darter hell, but that will have to wait till next year :(

Pikies: mini's, jumbos and a couple of sizes in between. Oh yea, jointeds. Been messing with a different joint design hoping to tighten up the wiggle a bit from that wide snake-swim. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But right now I'm just getting out of component hell with a new plugging rod I'm putting together.

Cowboy, A40 and a couple of spooks are going in the indoor test facility this afternoon. Kinda nice to have access to a Olympic size swimming pool on winter days.

i'm perfecting the fine art of completely screwing up nice looking plugs in the final stage. :uhuh:

it was sweet til i got greedy and tried one more coat of clear after waiting too long between coats.
the fresh stuff attacked everything that had already started to set up :wall:

I'm up for it!

swimmers
 

The big ones are about 9". The small ones 4 1/2-5".

pikies and surfsters
 

all about 5"

just sealed.

some needles in the works now as well.

there's the picture-had some problems with uploading earlier

The spraybooth is now completed so I hope to be doing some painting this weekend.

Hey TFF, Nice crackle finish!!! You just made an antique! The fish won't care :-)

Orange crackle glass. :hihi:

i was going for the crackle to bigin with just on the bottom, but the clear messed everything up big time.

spray yellow then right away hit it with florescent orange. the orange dries much faster than the yellow so it will crackle nice.
i'm gunna try it agian.

is the yellow oil base and the orange something else? I remember having that happen with a base color and a black over spray. AT the time I got pissed and wiped it off so I don't remember the combination of paints. Now I wish I could replicate it....

nope both krylon short cuts rattle cans.
not sure on the formula but florescent dries really fast and solids dry slower.
silver or gold same thing.dries really fast.
you can get krackle rattle cans. but i just stumbled onto this combo.
i show you in about an hour

Ohter than the plugs for the rookie swap here is a danny I finished in the attempt at a mackeral pattern and a carving that I finally got around to finishing.

GREAT fish:uhuh:

Heres a couple I've been working on. They are my first plugs. One of them as you can see didn't turn out quite the way I was Hoping. Oh well It's all a Learning experince right.

ON, awesome carving and paint. :drool: :kewl:

your carvings ok,
but the eel skin mack danny should be sent to me for further review.