Almost plated look with powder

[AtticaFish]

Been messing with some very bright and shiny tin heads down on the paint bench lately. These are candy base colors (gold, chart, red) that are coated with a very thin layer of paint.

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It has always been tough for me to get an even layer of powder using the candy colors. If it gets built up too thick, the color is significantly darker and you loose any reflective quality of the metal. Even tried it in a fluid bed in the past but still just sticks way too much paint. With these, i only heated the head over the flame for 2 or 3 seconds then dipped and swished them in a fluffed up jar of powder for a couple of seconds making sure i didn't touch the edges of the jar. The paint sticks to the head almost like static cling..... i could actually brush it off before i put it back over the flame. Once it got over the flame it would even sometimes be too thin a coat. Had to wait for the head to completely cool again to make sure it was not going to stick too much powder. Then back over the flame for a second and swish it again till the powder sticks like static dust.



The couple of small dart heads at the bottom are not candy coated, they are opaque colors that were just on the rack to be cured at the same time so threw them in the pic.

 

[CrappieHappy]

nice work Russ

 

[Hawnjigs]

Whoah, noticeably brighter shine with the thin candy, speshly the gold & troos darts.

Of course, JiggerJohn would say if'n yah want shiny why bother to paint at all?

 

[Pepop]

Good job Russ! I don't think there's a better effect than bright metal (chrome, metallic gold, tin or plated head etc) under a thin candy or transparent top coat. WTG!! :icon14: :icon14: those darter's are Fantastic!

 

[toadfrog]

Great work . Sounds like you have to pay pretty close attention or ya can goof up easy .

 

[Bucho]

Outstanding!

I was looking for the exact same effect for my whitefish jigs. I´m also very interested in that red opaque color. Been having trouble with bright red which I could only achive with a bright ground coat. Then again that builds up to an extend that causes troubles with pony head sviwels, plugged eyes etc. .

Is that red a single coat? would do anything to get a bright fluorescent red without a base coat! Mixing only got me dirty looking orange.

 

[AtticaFish]

Bucho - The two smaller darts on the bottom center of the second picture are painted with a single dip of a color listed as Flo Red (008) at Jann's Netcraft. Not sure what manufacture it is though, Pro-Tech CSI does not show a color listed as Flo Red on their site. To my eye, the color is more of a fluorescent orange than red. Either way, it is very bright and does cover well with out the need for a base color.

 

[Bucho]

Excellent! Just what I needed! Thanks!