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Powelly 
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 Posted: 12 Oct 2010 at 5:31pm |
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Hi George
Like Pete, I only use auto acrylic lacquers. A quick search on the internet shows that the Testors paints are basically hobby paints and they have some great colours.
The flouro colours look very bright, but our local big hobby store, Frontline Hobbies in Newcastle, doesn't stock the flouro colours. The other Testor paints seem pretty reasonably priced at $2 - $3 per pot.
If you go to the Testors website, they have Flourescent Enamal kits for only US$12.15, which includes 6 high visibility colors, thinner, paint brush and tray. Might be worth emailing them to check on shipping costs.
The enamel paints give a much harder finish than the acrylic lacquer, but you have to be patient with the drying times.
Go for broke, George. You can be the tester for Testor paints and report back to us.
Cheers
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tooch
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Posted: 12 Oct 2010 at 8:56pm |
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Hi George, as Travers said mate you can be the testors tester....
It will be interesting to see what you come up with...
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Posted: 26 Oct 2010 at 12:32am |
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Bought a range of these - http://www.whiteknightpaints.com.au/product/view/splashes
Gloss Acrylic Enamel ( water based ) . Hope these will do the damage, quick drying which will be very helpful for my situation.. all good and should give a reasonably strong finish that i will cover in a marine grade varnish - 3 or 4 coats. Will give them a good dip in some all-purpose wood sealer firstly, along with a light sand before adding colour. How does this sound? Going to give the painting a good go this week-weekend coming up. Got a few lures that could do with a dash of paint! |
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tooch
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Posted: 26 Oct 2010 at 10:09pm |
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Hi George, If you are going to use waterbase acrylic make sure the paint is
well dried before you put any laquer over it other wise you'll get all the
problems under the sun with peeling and bubbling...
..I use white Knightfluro paints in the pressure pack cans and decant them into a bottle.
As a matter of fact I decanted a can of fluro Pink today as I was running low.
Are you going to use a compressor and airbrush to paint with???
or are you going to paint them with a brush???
Give me a yell if you run into any problems....
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Posted: 30 Oct 2010 at 11:52pm |
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Going to paint them with the airbrush.. Have done two coats of Acrylic Wood Sealer on some practice poppers. well dried now. Will give them a light sand tomorrow and then get into putting some colour on them via Airbrush. Gonna go with the white as a base coat, let it dry them hit them with colour to test.
Also will be doing alot of testing on paper, first time using the airbrush so want to have a real good play around. |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2010 at 8:26am |
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Hi George, Don't go too heavy handed with your brush.
using paper to practise on is a good Idea and don't thin down your paint too much.
Post up some Pics of your Progress it will be good to see how you go....
 Talk to you soon and good luck ...
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Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 8:29pm |
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Pete i,m interested in the eyes, the decal ones i have no idea where to get them. i had a go at fish taxidermy and again same problem finding the eyes, beleive it or not they are the hardest thing for me to aquier, unbeleivable i could paint them but i,m a bit dodgy in the painting so i want to make them nice as i can, my work has to improve with persaverence surely.
If you have any ideas or anyone else please pm me thanks a million.
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Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 8:34pm |
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Half plactic pearls are quite useful
 And painted ones is easy to make with round stick (drill bit etc). First white one and then black with little smaller.
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Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 8:48pm |
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Thanks Piatu but i would rather stay awy from makeing stuff for eyes, i just wanted something to make them realy stand out, nicley painted lures with dodgy painted eyes are a thing of the past if i can help it.
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Pilly
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Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 8:55pm |
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Check out this site Handyman
Are these what you are after?
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Adrian
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puglee62
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Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 9:28pm |
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just punch your eyes out of contact,you can buy cheap punches from supercheap and the like,a roll of contact from kmart will cost you about $5.00,a black roll for pupils and a white roll for iris' will make thousands of eyes.if you want something a bit flashier and three dimensional try a black contact pupil on a holographic iris(holographic sheet from craft shops) then a light blob of 5minute araldite to make it
3d ,very realistic
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Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 9:29pm |
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Pilly you are a god sent from heaven. wooooooooo hooooooooo bloody ripper mate. any one who doesn,t know about his link kingstonlures .com.au check it out what a ripper thank you so much pilly your a ledgend mate.
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Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 9:37pm |
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Puglee62 That is brillient i will give that a go as well thanks mate you also are a king ledgend. it,s amazing when the brain cells connect what you can come up with, i for one would not thought of doing that, crikey my kids would of thought of that though as they are creative, but me ahh daaa naaaa didn,t think glad you did though thanks again.cheers
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Posted: 06 Nov 2010 at 9:49pm |
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Lads not only painting the lures is awsum for being creative and being a fish attractant for catching those beauties but the eyes and other peices that go on make them to, as well as make them a special lure that only we make as lure fanatics and dabbelers creating our own lures of perfection or at least trying to creat something, anyway guys iv, just started a batch of lures so i,ll post them up once i got them done, i,v been reading this post on painting and thanks guys with all your tips that you share so i,m hopeing that i can at least put on a good paint job i hope
 thanks guys once again cheers.
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lure crazy
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Posted: 07 Nov 2010 at 7:29pm |
 God knows why! That whiteknite spray is gold though! it goes on heaps smoother and dries quicker.
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Posted: 08 Nov 2010 at 7:31pm |
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Hi Heath, White knight fluros are pretty good I must admit
but I have troubles sometimes with Orange peel effect if
I put the paint on too thick.....It seems to come out brighter if
you put a coat of white paint underneath....
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Posted: 08 Nov 2010 at 8:34pm |
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I learnt the too thick problem pretty quick! the fluro's certainly are better if only one coat is sprayed on. Just annoying if theres any dark spots underneath, as it shows up like dogs balls under the floro paint.
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Posted: 08 Nov 2010 at 9:31pm |
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Gotcha there Heath, Some times you've only gotta overlap the spray a little
and the jobs buggered.. Thank god you can strip them back with thinners...
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Posted: 09 Nov 2010 at 6:04am |
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Thanks guys,
used flouro pink white knight outof can about15yrs ago to make a cod lure for a trip, this orange peel happened to me, I cleaned it down about 4 times and resprayed, but still no success, I always wondered what the problem was.  It caught cod though!
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Nichos Maulers Homemade timber lures....THEY CATCH FISH!
YA DONT KNOW...IF YA DONT GO...SO GET OUT THERE AND... FISH IT |
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Posted: 09 Nov 2010 at 6:29pm |
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Hi Nicho, It only takes the slightest amount of grease on your hands or
even the aftershave or deodorant your wearing or even fly spray
in the air can cause this effect...
... I try to wash my hands before I startand even go as far as wiping a bit of thinners over my hands to prevent
it as much as I can...Gee there's another tip for the book....
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Posted: 09 Nov 2010 at 7:02pm |
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Posted: 09 Nov 2010 at 7:08pm |
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Hi Chris, I think I'd better start writing all these tips down....MMMM
...Pete.
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Posted: 09 Nov 2010 at 7:37pm |
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Jasin - if it caught a cod who needs fluro pink, the god's were with you.
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Posted: 09 Nov 2010 at 8:38pm |
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Hallalula pete R......hallalula, its caught several murray cod
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Nichos Maulers Homemade timber lures....THEY CATCH FISH!
YA DONT KNOW...IF YA DONT GO...SO GET OUT THERE AND... FISH IT |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 12:50pm |
Pete The bunnings airbrush at my local is a Project Air brand...is that the one? Cheers |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 1:10pm |
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Hi Sel, Yep that's the one good little kit
for $22 also have a look at supercheap
the have a stainless steel gravity feed brush for $30 at the moment...
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Posted: 19 Mar 2012 at 8:55pm |
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Here's a bump on this one too guys...
..Enjoy.. ...Pete.
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Posted: 20 Mar 2012 at 4:01am |
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Hi pete ,i been trying to find this thread for ages..thanks for bumping it mate....great read and very helpfull to a novice like myself,,,,,
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Posted: 20 Mar 2012 at 7:35am |
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No problems Mick, I hope it stays up for a couple more days
so the other new guys can have a good read... ...Pete. |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2012 at 10:29am |
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Hey Pete, thanks for bumping this stuff for me.
It has been very helpful, educational, a little bit scary even - but still keen on getting stuck in to a few resprays on some old hardbodies that I just dont use because of colours. I can never have too many pink or purple lures now! |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2012 at 7:22pm |
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Hi John, I'm glad you picked something out of all this stuff .
I know how hard it was when I first started out noone would tell me anything and the only way I could find out any thing was to go and visit my luremaking freinds and ask heaps of questions. Don't get me wrong sometimes it was like getting blood from a stone. That's why I decided to do this thread to show all the beginners out there how to Paint and hopefully they have picked up some good Ideas from it. Just keep one thing in mind Practice, Practise, Practise and more practise...
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Posted: 23 Mar 2012 at 11:19pm |
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Thanks Pete...really good read! very informative for newby painters like me.
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cheers steiny
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Posted: 24 Mar 2012 at 7:45am |
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It's good that you newer guys are getting some
tips out of this thread... If you have any questions don't be afraid to ask..you can PM me if you feel embarrassed....
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Posted: 10 Aug 2012 at 10:19pm |
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Thanks Pete for putting the time and effort into this topic. Will be coming back to read it again as I start to paint more.
Cheers Drew
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Posted: 11 Aug 2012 at 9:34pm |
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No worries Drew, Don't be afraid to ask questions mate..
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