chefchris Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 So was lucky enough to score a hinkle shad on the last run in march, bait arrived this past week. action is crazy, can do everything from slow crawl, wide glide, tigh glide, wake etc. I was looking at pics of our Shad and herring here in new england and they are a lot more vibrant than the bait itself, which has a lot of grays and silver. Went to the craft store and bought some Testors Enamel paints, 3 pack of brushes, some thinner and some micro dot brushes, all together about $23 I picked up gold, white, silver, light blue, gold green metallic and metallic purple and a small thinner bottle. I used the smallest brush in the 3 pack, size 2, i never used any of the other brushes or the micro dot brushes, but plan to for other stuff. The bait has a great shape and is spot on. Got set up, make sure to shake the paints up really well. Laid all the paints out and got ready. you can see in the pic that bait comes with a nice blue hue on the top scale section. The first thing I did was paint all the scales between the lateral line and factory blue ones with the purple metallic purple, slight over lapping a couple blue scales here and there. based on how thick the paint was on the brush changes the hue of the purple, and all the colors for that matter. Then from there I used gold and silver and randomly picked scales, working my way from the head to the tail, I wanted the bait to have some flash and look like a herring/shad that had just swam up river, got beat up coming thru the fish ladder. I kept the paint simple, every couple scales, usually just one scale, but sometimes two or three in a group, to make it look the scales had flaked off. I made sure to paint some scales above the lateral line as well. And I painted some belly scales white, just to make them pop from the factory painted ones. I then wanted to add something to the face/head area without taking away from all the shading thats on the bait, i painted the head and gill lines with gold first, then took a paper towel with some thinner on it and wiped away the excess from the flat surfaces, once that was dry i went back over the metallic green gold and wiped the excess away the same way. I just kept turning the bait at different angles and trying to make look realistic without turning it into a paint by number Hinkle. The bait looks sick in your hand and has a nice flash in the water and matches our big baits here in New England. Then once its dry, flip it over and repeat the process. You could easily make this bait into a hitch or carp, with some baisc paint skills. any questions or comments welcome. Thanks guys, Chef JTSwimbaitMan, Last caress, missinfish and 14 others 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thastickybandit Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 dang chef! that looks awesome, good work. szuloaga 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilcatfish Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Looks great. Really like the addition of the purple/pink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyW Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 looks great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Baiter Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 (edited) Can't wait to get one! Looks great! Edited April 18, 2015 by Darth Baiter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Derrick Wallace' Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Very Nice!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETBA Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Nice Job Chris, that definitely gives it some added flash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogervang Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 That looks good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derds126 Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 Looks awesome man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batallas22 Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 Damn that's sick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
habla10 Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 good job ! Is any body can help me ? where can i find this lure ? I have not facebook This imitation of big roach would be very good on European pike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timcauliffe Posted April 19, 2015 Report Share Posted April 19, 2015 Cooking up the good stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnnydukess Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 Looks Killer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baigh95 Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 i love the scale work, nice work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin08261985 Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 That looks great! Where are you at in MA? I'm about 5 minutes from the pond in the first pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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