First two with the new airbrush

[Flaptail]

A Habs Danny body and a Slipknot drill out the side repair.

[BigFish]

Those are pretty darn awesome! Nice work Flap...real nice!

[Nebe]

Beautiful, simply beautiful.

where did you get those ????

[Striperknight]

They came out very sharp looking. I like the colors.

[Tagger]

perty burgundy scale job .. real nice ..

[NIB]

Nice all the colors to chose from more madness.before u go crazy byin all kinds a paint heres 2 things to think of.u can mix alot of things to get something u like an anything pearl is good.

what gun did u get.I just got a badger anthem a Great Volume brush this thing will shoot pebbles.

[Backbeach Jake]

Ya know, those look old school Race Point. I have a real feeling for red this year.

[missing link]

nice

[tynan19]

Can I have the next two?

[PNG]

Nice job!

I like the eyes

[thefishingfreak]

i quit.
what's ya gonna dip 'em in?
they look pissa

[Flaptail]

Thanks for the kind words. I am still in kindergarten with the airbrush thing but hope to get to grade school soon. I am using a Badger Anthem 155. The eyes are Enrico Puglisi fly eyes. You can get them on Cape at the Orvis shop in Harwich ( maybe Mashpe has them also) but the best and least costly is Bears Den in Taunton and he has tons of different colors. I will coat them in Devcon as I usually do since I am not pumping out the numbers you guys do I can casually coat a couple at a time. The inspiration for the colors come from Bassmaster on the needle on an old pattern of his I always liked and then Creek Chub on the Danny. Sorta of a Whitefish pattern with rose pink base. Got a bunch of Habs Needle blanks John was kind enough to send me that are drying from sealer now getting close to priming then the Badger will do it's thing.

[ChrisH]

Well done Flap! I really like that color combination.

[reelecstasy]

Love'em, great colors...can't wait ta see the rest
Attaboy-Flap

[bassmaster]

nice work, i have a few left on the needle but there trshed from fish

[Flaptail]

Thanks Dave, that's why I painted it that color pattern!

[Karl F]

Keep 'em comin' Flap... and get turning

[justplugit]

Nice colors and patterns You've already graduated

[NIB]

Hey Flap I just got the same gun.its a good tool for applyin alot of Product but if ya try to get fancy wit it it gets alittle tough.an there are no different needles to change the performance.The reason i got it was to shoot some of the heavier stuff an metalics an I was toyin wit addin in powders an other junk.the reason i got it was to because they where out of the eclipse an I had the 280 dollar gun in my hand but couldn't bring myself to spend that much.I was havin trouble spray some stuff an this one cured the problem so I still detail wit the old crappy referbished gun but that will soon change.

[Flaptail]

It's my first AB so I appreciate the insight. Since I like metallics and Pearl-ex it probably is good I have this one. We have a chain of stores up here called A.C.Moore and they have a good selection of guns. My wife almost got me the Vega 2000. If all works out I probably will eventually get into a more detail oriented gun but for now I am in diapers with it and scale patterns are cool and all but a lot of my fav plugs don't have 'em anyway. I want to get into layering and fogging with the Metallics and Pearl-ex pigments. I have tried Lumiere mixed colors like thier gold/olive and I like it and the devcon doesn't have a problem with it. It's a good utilitarian AB. Thanks for your info though Tony it's a great help when one like myself is just getting off the ground with this new aspect of painting, Flap.

[ThrowingTimber]

great work Flap, I'd like to see shots of those two at the end of the season, I'm sure they'll have some battle scars.

[NIB]

Its a great gun its like a fresh warm spraycan with a new tip.that won't clog. I just didn't want u to get dissapointed when u try to do the BM mac daddy patterns an u have some trouble an think its the user.u can still do alot of detail an layering. try makin some simple shields for nice tight layering.Like i have one with a eye cut out for a CC type eye pattern.I'm gonna make one to do some OJ type needles.Pearl ex is cool stuff.Make some kinda spray booth with a fan an a filter from a furnace or the little crystals end up all over the place. AC Moores is a good place too they often have sales coupons that offer 40% off any one item that makes a 120 gun 72 dollars. PM me ur addy I'll send u some blanks.

[Slipknot]

One of my first with my new airbrush also


It has 2 colors of olive I mixed, faded into each other.




and here is a shot of my new spinner so I can use envirotex

[Slipknot]

I can't use a computer well,

the plug looks better in person.

[Nebe]

Bruce what were you using before envirotex??

[Slipknot]

System Three clearcoat(I still like that but needs 2 coats)

I have used System Three builders epoxy also.

did a batch once with automotive clearcoat before.

Sometimes on some that I would want to fish right away I just use clear laquer over spray paint.

I thought about just using varnish.

[Nebe]

The first plugs i made were coated with Spar varnish.. they turned yellow
Thats a nice spinner you got there. I might make one like that, as my ferris wheel is driving me crazy

[NIB]

where's melissa, I don't see no olive plug.I see sixteen plugs. Maybe a NIB plug in there.Wit that thing by the time u get to one end u can start applyin the second coat on the first one.looks like the plug train choo choo. Oh Ya ppatsies got no chance on sunday.maybe if they leave the sprinklers on.

[NIB]

U should be doin that in the painting rm wit the exhaust on.