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I've looked around for a couple of years, and was unable to find a supplier. Hopefully someone else can chime in and help out.

I have tried all that everyone has said on here and I like baitjunkys plastic the best from baitplastics.com.

With a .5 mm tip you may have problems shooting a craft paint that is not formulated for airbrushes. A .35 mm tip will surely have problems. Craft paint pigments usually don’t shoot reliably because they aren’t ground small enough and they have no flow enhancers, so they tend to clog your tip. That said, sometimes you luck out and your batch happened to be ground small enough. It’s a crap shoot. But most of us eventually learn to go with only airbrush paint to avoid the aggravation. Just about anything can be used to thin acrylic paint. A mix of water, alcohol, and a few drops of glycerin is one that works. Ammonia will eventually eat the chrome off your airbrush. Yes, Pledge clear acrylic floor polish also works but it dries to a very hard coating that is hard to remove from an airbrush if you let it dry and accumulate anywhere inside. I tried some and had to extract the needle from the packing nut with pliers after it dried. So I can’t recommend it.

Glad to hear your happy with that mold Dabehr . You mentioned MF plastic , I highly recommend Jeff's easy stretch formula for any of the frog molds that I sell . I've been able to get a lot of extra life out of the frogs (and other baits) with that formula .

I tightly wrap a rubber band around the joint to prevent paint intrusion on a bait with a joint that can’t be disassembled before painting or on one that I can’t install the joint mechanism after painting and clearcoating. The bands also hold the bait rigid while painting it. But I don’t trust rubber bands to resist dipped clearcoat intrusion. I brush the clearcoat on.

Any kind of clearcoat works fine over foil in my experience. I clean the foil after application with a Qtip and denatured alcohol to remove paint overspray, any finger prints/oil, and it brightens it by removing any oxidation.

Great advice, thank you. I think I'll use it.