I agree with you on many levels, i make my own balsa baits and have not yet bought an airbrush, i just use spray paint, the paint jobs look ok but I can only do basic patterns like shad, of alabama craw. they catch fish better than anything in my tacklebox, but once someone sees one they want to know if i can do a sunfish color of a tennesee shad color, does it really matter to the fish? or are we trying to catch fisherman, not fish?