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Haha Yea adding all of that stuff up would take some time... I don't even think I would have the time to fish. I'm probably just going to stay away from the liquid paints for now. And order a powder airbrush and get some cheap brushes and see what I like best. I did see a guy on a regular powder coating forum(not for lures) cut up some type of non adhesive heat resistant tape to use as a stencil. So I might give that a try too

When your doing multiple colors like that are you using a brush tap method or a sandblaster airbrush. Also have any of y'all had any experience with laying your main colors down in powder coat and using that as a primer and then adding detail with vinyl or water base paint

sounds good will check that out

so, has any body on here ever tried to paint jigs with vinyl paint and then a epoxy coating? did you have any bad results besides the fact that in will give you a terrible headache? cs coating is claiming that their vinyl paint will hold up better than powder and that it is one of their strongest coatings.

Yea the setup shouldn't be too expensive, we have heat guns from my family's construction company and I have a convection oven. My thing is the paint because if I want to do multi colors I need many different colors if paint and flake which can get expensive. And I won't be able to use that paint for any thing other than lead lures. Also have you ever tried to get very detailed with the powder? How did it turn out

Yea I heard about the plastics melting, I was told you can put a clear coat over the vinyl paint and it will stop this. Not sure if that's true though. Have you done jigs with the water based paint and epoxy? How did they hold up? The only reason I was going to go vinyl over water is that I was told it would hold up better Thanks

Hey guys I have been reading y'all's info for a while and it had helped a ton, and I finally created an account. I am trying to get ready to start painting my own stuff and once I get the practice in I want to be able to paint my cranks, blades and jigs. I plan to start off with jigs because it seams to be not as hard as the others, and I am in the need for high quality jigs over cranks. My main thing is that I want to be able to be very detailed with my colors similar to the way revenge does there baits, and I am on a budget (college student). I know this will take lots of practice. So since I am on a budget I can only really afford to start off with one painting process vinyl or powder, My main question for y'all is in your opinion should I go vinyl with an airbrush so I will have the ability to do cranks and very small details or should I go powder and wait till I have money to go vinyl? My thoughts and questions on what I have read to give y'all some background I have seen people get very detailed with powder paints but is it possible to do the small things like gill outlines on a bluegill swim jig? Does that powder airbrus help with this? I know powder is stronger than vinyl but I lose a lot of jigs so is it that big of a deal? Also I know vinyl paint setups are more expensive but I already have some of the tools. Thanks