New Paintjob--Water Drops

[.dsaavedra.]

learned this new technique a few days ago. looks really sweet. i havent put it on a lure yet but here is a photo of a sample i did on a piece of clear packing tape. lemme know what you think:

i plan on painting a lure bright blue and then applying this paintjob over it. the paintjob would be more intended for "show" than to attract fish, but the lure will be fishable.

so what do you guys think?

[Jimzee]

Looks like a toad's skin magnified about 100 times.

[.dsaavedra.]

Looks like a toad's skin magnified about 100 times.

lol, neato  

[fishingdanderson]

very cool is it difficult.  You know what I really want to ask.  Alright I will.  How's it done.  I understand if its a secret.  I've seen some similar things but not exactly like that.  It's cool.  do share.  If you want :

[basspro96]

pretty simple you take like a windex bottle fill it up with water and spray it on a canvas or whatever you are painting on  except like paper it will just tear right thru and take a spray can and paint at an angle about at 45 degree angle and let it dry

[Sam]

OK Dave, so what do you do with it now?

And will it attract fish?

Or is this a ploy to have some nice young coed come to your home to see you make water drops?

So let us in on the secret.

P.S. Dogwoods are getting close to blooming.

[whittler]

On custom vans of the 60's and 70's, this was done quite often. Google up custom automotive paintjobs or water spot painting and you should see a lot of examples.

[.dsaavedra.]

its very simple.

basspro96 pretty much got it right, excet for the angle. i have found it gives a pretty bad pattern if you use a 45° angle. from my tests, the close to 0° the better the result. and you also want a very light mist of, because a heavy spraying of paint will cause it to be really dark (like in the bottom right corner of my test). so you wanna keep as low of an angle as possible and be about a foot away or maybe farther.

sam, i plan on putting it on a few lures to make em look purdy. not sure if it will attract fish or girls . and im goin fishin this evening and tomorrow morning, so i'll let you know whether or not the dogwoods are blooming .

[fishingdanderson]

do you have to use an oil based paint?  Createx won't work or will it?

[.dsaavedra.]

do you have to use an oil based paint? Createx won't work or will it?

the paint must be enamel or it wont work. im not sure what createx is, but if it is enamel then it will work. heck, im using $0.96 cans of walmart brand enamel spray paint, so im sure if you used a good paint it would turn out better.

[IneedAnewScreenName-3271]

Ahhhh, paint jobe from the 60's...I remember the laced paint jobs especially one on a canary yellow 64 impala with black lace...what a heart throb.

  You could call that paint job WART.... ;D

[jr1945]

pretty cool

[Infidel.]

Very cool, I would like to see this on the backs of some crawdad patterns.

[Daiwa]

looks really cool!!!

[.dsaavedra.]

Very cool, I would like to see this on the backs of some crawdad patterns.

hey you're right, that would look real cool!

[Redlinerobert]

Very cool Dave, good work!