I am usually interested to topics related to soft plastic baits and in this Forum I found really good informations.
So, to repay your good suggestions, I would like to share with you a really simple technique about painting hard baits with Nail Art Powder. Perhaps some of you already know such technique, then it could be intersting to compare our experiences.
Years ago I stopped to pour my cranks in epoxy resin ... the cheap chinese blank are really more convenient.
In Nail Art Powders you can find all sorts of pigments: pearls as the marble mica, metallic as silver and gold, iridescent colors as the showed green/violet.
The technique to apply the fantastic nail art powder to our blanks, is exacly carry out from same Nail Art application: we need a dark background, as a sprayed black (by a can for instance); a gloss substrate, as the sprayed Plastidip in our case, and after 5 minutes, when the sprayed plastic is not more tacky, you can apply the powder that you prefer with a brush or the Nail Art spongy tool.
Talking about the back or belly colors, you can surely use another kind of powder, but I found that powdered surface is a good base to spray other kind of colors. Even if I sometimes use the airbrushing pen, in this case is really easyier to brush a little bit of color from a Copic marker with the Spritzer pump (ndr Spritzer is a handy pump where you attach the marker pen, obtaining a sort of airbrushing effect, let try to search it on the net).
Last step is simply to seal off all, glued eyes included, with another Plastidip spraying.
That's all.
Bye.
Cami