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The bait I am working on is a plastic bait I was looking to refinish. I have not worked on any wooden baits as of yet. I used the foil tape, and after I had it applied I shot a white base coat on the top and bottom of the lure where the tape did not meet so that I could have a better color to start with than the original color of the bait. I did no detail in the foil... simply applied the tape and smoothed it very good. When I applied my epoxy a small portion of the base coat had not dried and mixed with the epoxy. So I now have a noticeable smear in the finish. I considered going on with my planned paint scheme and leaving the blemish alone, since this is a test bait anyway. But if it was easy to remove a blemish like this I thought I would go ahead and get rid of it. Can't provide a picture since I'm at work...

I know I've seen this somewhere else on here, but I can't find it right now. I'm trying my first foil finish bait this week. All was going good until I tried to topcoat the foil with epoxy before some of my paint was dry. (I put a base coat on before foiling so less paint would be required after foiling) Anyway a slight amount of the bas coat smeared in with the devcon. How do I go about cleaning this blemish up? I was thinking of trying to buff it out with some steel wool. Any suggestions?

I have read where several people are using aluminum foil stencils. Could some of you using these tell me why you prefer them over the various platics other people use? It would seem like a foil thin enough to mold to a bait would also be very delicate and want to tear. Is there something I'm not thinking of here? thanks,

I didn't think of a spraybooth... I have never seen how this works. How do you make one and does this trap all of the paint so that none gets on the wife's freshly painted walls, floor, or anywhere else that might shorten my life??? What size box do you need? thanks,

Thanks guys for all the great advice. Now if I can just handle the cold long enough to paint I'll be alright...

Hi, I have I hope a simple question. I have picked up an airbrush and hopefully will begin learning how to use it soon. I had planned to wait for the weather to warm up since my shop isn't heated, but I have a guy asking for a simple paint scheme on some rat'l traps. So my question is, What is the ideal temperature for airbrushing baits? I'll be using createx paints... Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Oh and since I don't have my station set up yet and I'll likely only be doing 1 to 2 baits at a time. Has anyone come up with a good way of drying baits without the drying motor??? thanks,

This may be covered somewhere else and if it is just direct me there. I plan to start painting some of the unfinished hard baits that you can pick up from some of the tackel providers and I was wandering what the process is for this. I have an airbrush and I'm sure I can figure all of this out by trial and error, but I thought it might make a good post just to ask for general advice. What paints do you recommend, are there any general tricks to using the airbrush... etc.??? Anyway, thanks for any info you can give me...