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    Posted: 16 Mar 2013 at 4:50pm
As promised,  "how to" on lures eyes, as a few members have requested. My first 'how to' so I hope it all makes sense.
First pic, paints I use for eyes and painting lure bodies, Schmincke(water based) Createx(water based) and Auto base colours(fast drying) Airbrush I use is Iwata HP - BH double action.
The first few pics are the Squid eyes I have used for the recent nude carving.(I'm using a Pindari for the exercise)
I use drill bits for the eyes as they do come in varies sizes and are very precise. It is important to have the paint at a consistancy to give you a perfect circle, depending on the type of paint you use(might have to experiment on a piece of paper).Drill bits I'm using is 7mm(pearl white) outer and 3.5mm(marine blue) inner.
 
Then airbrush a little marine blue on top of the eye and yellow on the bottom.
Finish with a marine blue 3.5mm centre circle.
Ready for clear coat.
 
 
 
Next I'm making some 3D eyes from vinyl stickers, you might know a local signwriter who has offcuts of vinyl stickers etc, these can be cut by hand or get the signwriter to pre cut them for you. It's always good to use two very contrasting colours like black and yellow(most contrasting colour )
The colours I'm using for these eyes is silver background with yellow and black foreground.
 
Airbrushing a shadow on top of eyes(marine blue)
placing the black pupil on top of the yellow.
 
Now placing the pupil on top of the silver.
to  get the 3 dimensional effect I use Erskine epoxy which is used for rod binding. For the 30 eyes (8mm diameter) I mix up 2ml of each part A and B, total of 4ml. Then place a small amount on each eye, you'll work out very quickly how much to place on each eye, as to much will run over the edge.You want to keep it inside the vinyl sticker.
 
Wait for it to set(normally 24hrs) and they're ready to use, you can place them straight onto the lures or for extra grip countersink the eyes.
Never had any problems spraying 2 pac acrylic clear over the top.
Below are some more examples of eyes I use for lures, frog(4mm), lizard(6mm) and more cuttlefish eyes(6mm).
I always encourage others to make up your own design of eyes, lures and paint as it's all part of the creative process of lure making, which in return makes each lure very unique.
Hope it all makes sense.
Ollie
 
 
 
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Bloody awesome ollie :)
Real pain !!!

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very cool
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Thats the shit man BOMB DIGGERDY.Its truely amazing people showing others who they do different things on there lure.Well done wicked tutorial ClapClap
 
 
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You're a legend Ollie

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Absolutly brilliant
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Originally posted by seagull seagull wrote:

Thats the shit man BOMB DIGGERDY.Its truely amazing people showing others who they do different things on there lure.Well done wicked tutorial ClapClap
 
 
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Top job Ollie always interesting on how other people do there eyes Thumbs Up.

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+1.

will be giving a go in the future for sure.
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AWESOME MATE LOVE YOUR STYLE ITS A CREDIT TO YOU THANKS FOR THE READ.
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Thanks for sharing your wisdom. Massive  Regards Billj
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Thanks for going to the trouble and sharing this info Ollie, great stuff, regards Chris
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Great tutorial Ollie, and great results .
Thanks for the time spent here, I appreciate how much stuffing around there is in one of these.
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Totally awesome, the sequence of photos show them taking life. Great work and a true masterclass.
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Sensational, Ollie ClapClapClap
 
Now we can look forward to seeing some of the LL's members lures with 3D eyes. Big smile
 
Thanks for sharing with everyone.
 
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Thanks for the replies, really appreciated.
 
@ Pete, your not wrong as far taking time, it's easy to forget taking photos as you go. But hope it's all worth it and someone gets inspired
 
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Had the extremely good fortune to add a few of Ollies' lures to my tacklebox .... the workmanship is amazing and I couldn't help but notice the eye's Clap

Asked Ollie for more info on them and he kindly directed me to this thread .... wow, it doesn't get better than this Thumbs Up



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Originally posted by Padgey Padgey wrote:

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