Let's Paint!

[Rowhunter]

I was painting a few poppers this weekend so I thought I'd take some pics along the way. We all know that the action of a plug is primary and the paint is just an also ran, but I actually enjoy the challenge. First off let me get this out of the way, I use House of Kolor automotive solvent based paints. I have Iwata brushes , and a very well lit outside vented spray booth. Some times I'll use Automotive Urethanes for a top coat and I want to emphasize the importance of a proper booth and respirator. Let's paint. The poppers I was painting are some of my resin plugs I had hanging around for a while. I thought a Largemouth bass pattern would be nice. They were primed with auto primer, painted white base coat then pearl white. I taped off the gill rakers and shot them with pearl red, then just added some thinned grey for shadowing on the rakers and gill plates, that is the first pic. The next one is the mixed paints ready to go. The third picture is the light green on the back and sides as a base for the scales.