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Re: Starting out Airbrushing
You got it.
I just spent three hours stripping off the epoxy and paint from three jointed swimbaits that I had coated with aluminum rattle can paint, trying to get a foil undercoat without all the work.
The metal in the paint made it shine, but it also made it slippery, so the next coats didn't bond. And the metal expanded when it go hot, cracking the Devcon epoxy topcoat I had used for the first time. Even a second coat of epoxy, this time with Envirotex Lite, couldn't save the lures.
Suffice it to say, it took longer to strip the lures than it did to repaint them. But I did learn what not to do.
Thomas Edison once said all the different elements he tried to use as filaments in the first light bulb that didn't work weren't failures. They were just things that he learned wouldn't work, leading him eventually to what did.
Fortunately, I haven't had to go through as many failures (thousands) as he did, thanks in large part to Tackleunderground. But there is no teacher like experience.
On the other hand, I did try Auto Air aluminum paint ( thanks Snax), and it seems to be good.
I'll let you know when I take the repainted lures out for a swim Saturday.
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