Vicious Fishes

I have been making the odd hand carved cedar lure for a number of years.
After seeing all the pretty lures on here and other forums I finally decided to buy an airbrush (Iwata Eclipse).
With a steep learning curve (watching You Tube "Sybe Baits" and "Solarfall Lures") this is what I ended up with.

Camo 6cm Minnow, 6.5cm Tiger and 9cm Minnow




Silver Black Scales 6cm Minnow, 8cm Tiger, 12 cm Fish (Large Body)




Gold Mullet 6cm Minnow, 8cm Fish, 8cm Tiger, 12cm Fish




Dragon Scales 6.5cm Minnow, 8cm Fish, 12cm Fish




Thanks
Steve B

Nice work there Steve...very nice 

Mick!!!

excellent scale patterns mate! Love the silver oneDo you air brush the eyes? Thats what im having the most trouble with.

Very nice paint work there maint!!!! Love em

Great lures and great paintwork. You should be pleased with those. Well done!

Steve, they look good. The scaled ones are the fav for me.

Thanks for the encouraging comments.
This is my favourite section of the forum.
I love checking out all the homemade creations as there is some incredible skill out there.

Davent: I think eyes are the biggest hassle.
I have a little panic attack while doing them.

Eyes are done with an old paintbrush handle (eye stick) cut to size and dipped in paint. As you will have read on here the paint has to be a perfect consistency to get nice round eyes. I put a little paint into a beer cap so I can see what I'm doing and very carefully touch the end of the eye stick to the surface of the paint so that a small drop of paint adheres to the end (you do not want any paint up the side of the eye stick and I regularly wipe the eye stick on paper towel) , this drop size will be determined by a bit of practice and you can get a smaller drop by gently touching the drop against the topside of the beer cap. Use a soft touch when pressing the stick against the lure don't press hard.

I also carefully mark the position of the centre of the eye on the lure as having something to aim at definitely helps me.
Some people clearcoat the lure before doing the eyes as they can then wipe the paint off if they mess up.
I use 6mm for white 4mm for red which gives you 8mm eyes with 5-6mm pupil any bigger and my eyes start going out of round big time.

Sounds a bit anal but you want round eyes.

Steve

Wow, they look great.  They're getting better and better.  I love the Black Astro and Copper Dusky.  They should get hammered in Weipa.  Well done.

Awesome paintwork and lures!

Top stuff - very original designs

MXB

Very nice lures and paintwork! Love those scales in silver lures.

Very nice lures indeed the finish is brilliant thanx for  puttin  them up ......cheers Dave

Great work.
I'm thoroughly impressed with the vibe/stick idea.
I reckon invaluable if you're on a weight restrictive packing list for a big trip.

they look tops, really nice work the latest ones

Angus

Great looking lures Steve, Have you been to Weipa before top spot. I make a few lures myself not as good as yours but they work ok.

Beautifull lures Stephen, looks like the airbrush was a good investment!

Ganesy- We've been to Weipa a bunch of times. On Steve's houseboats heaps and a bit of land based. Had some good and bad days but that's fishing. It sure is a great place and feels a bit like a second home to us now.I'm with Martin on your lures there's nothing wrong with them.

Managed to jag a couple of fish off Port Douglas recently.