Here's a few tips:
- A warm can sprays better (soak in warm water b4 use) Warning NOT boiling water, then u have a potential bomb in ur hands.
- Really shake the hell out of the can especially for heavier pigments like fluorescents, continue shaking too while painting, this would ensure less sputtering of paint.
- Spray farther away. This will get a thinner spray of paint onto your lure. Use multiple thin coats instead of one thick coat up close. I sometimes even shoot from even 1 to 2 ft away.
- You can spray wet on wet to get better blending. That means shoot the 2nd color b4 the 1st coat has dried. The colors will blend together and sometimes u get a third color from it. Eg, Candy blue & blend with candy yellow will give u green blend where the 2 colors meet. Works best with transparent colors.
- Use cardboard to shade ur painting and angle the spray away from edge of cardboard to get a faint parting line; 90° to card will give more apparent lines. Distance of card from painted surface will control how far the blend is going to go into card shaded part. Shooting at an angle into the space btw card & lure will give u a big mess LOL.
- Starting the spray b4 the lure and smooth sweep ending away from the lure will give you a more even coat
Hope this helps.
PS: I'm usually on "there other side" but do lurk here too
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