Squeakyboatcaptain said:
So you need a special airbrush?? The one I saw looks like a plain siphon type brush?? I ordered the compressor, and it comes with a siphon type brush... I guess I will be doing some experimenting when I get home from offshore!!!
That spinner bait looks incredible... That fading is what I am looking for!!
You need the hobby sand blaster which happens to be what TJ's, Barlows, Janns and all the rest are selling as the powder paint airbrush. I made a small spray booth out of the box from my work boots and since I take a size 14 EEEE the box is pretty large. I hang bags to reclaim powder when doing a large number of baits but when I'm only doing a few I just leave it go and if you want you can run a shop vac hose in the corner of the box and it will suck in the over spray. Practice with it and use different compressor settings, this will allow you to do different type of effects, for example, I will often go up to 4 or 5 psi which is about the max I would use with this, what that does is it pushes the powder out fast and with force so if you hold the lure a little bit away and just hit the buttom 1 or 2 quick pulses, you can get just a fine dusting of powder, this is nice when you have a pearl color lure and you want say a blue hue while keeping the bait a pearl finish. Turning down to about 1 psi will let you do red throats or orange bellies without having over spray putting paint on other areas of the bait. Play with the settings and it will let you do a lot of neat effects.
