Choosing colors

[Aircraftblues]

I'm about to start pouring my own worms. Budget is tight so would like some advice on choosing three colors to start with that I could mix with

[Lamar]

  Like I posted in another post Do-its 2X CC Green and purple flake. That and black is all I make my worms in. What you see there is 2 drops to 8 oz plastic. That one bottle of colorant will last you for years. The worm I like is the Do-it ES Finesse Crawler 6" and the ES Ribbon Worm 7".  For the price you can't go wrong with those molds. Very easy to make. If I was going to get a third color than maybe purple. The flake size I like is 40 thousands.

[ctom]

What Lamar said....^

By the way, welcome aboard the Do-It forums!

[Lines]

Welcome to custombaits.com Aircraft. Red, yellow, and green would be very versatile colors. They can be used alone, or mixed to make many variations in between.

[Fishermanbt]

Welcome. 3 colors that stand out to me are black, pumpkin seed, and watermelon. I’ll throw chartreuse yellow in as a wildcard.

[Lines]

You could exchange the green for blue, and mix yellow with blue for your green colors. Then you could also get purple tones with red and blue mixtures.

[Aircraftblues]

Thanks for the help and the welcoming. Can't wait to start pouring within the next week. I'll be sure to post pictures in the gallery

[WALLEYE WACKER]

Aircraftblues Black, watermelon, pumpkin seed. Hope you enjoy the addiction as much as the rest of use. And can’t wait to see what you come up with. Flake most have’s copper, ocean blue, lime, silver halo, red.

[efishnc]

You could exchange the green for blue, and mix yellow with blue for your green colors. Then you could also get purple tones with red and blue mixtures.

Although it can be a bit more tedious, I like the ability to experiment as Lines is mentioning because the three primary colors will let you do a wide array of colors (though you might want the brightness of chartreuse  over yellow)... and as Lamar said, each bottle will last a long time, far longer than I expected when first getting into it.

My suggestion is to keep notes on what you are doing (for replication) and to color sparingly at the start... it takes less work and materials to make things darker than to make them lighter.

Again, we welcome you to the forum.

[ctom]

efishnc brings up a great point on making colors along with lines. I have colorants coming out the gazoo and rarely use any "as is" out of the bottle, but then I like creating and avoid the hohum of plain colors. If you get serious about color mixing aircraft, start with toothpicks dipped in your adjustment color instead of relying on drops. Its way more precise to dip a toothpick and stir what's on the end into a color.

This thread got me curious just what I do have for colors and I have just about all of the X2 colors, many, many of the original Caney Creek colors, and      56 - 2 ounce bottles of MF colors. Carole says I have too much color, I say I could use a couple more. lol

[Lines]

Does that make you a "Color Full Character" ctom?

Lamar & efishnc are correct, a bottle of colorant will last forever.

[ctom]

Does that make you a "Color Full Character" ctom?

No. It makes me someone with too much junk.

[Lamar]

No. It makes me someone with too much junk.

  It's not junk if you can use it once.

[Muskygary]

CTom, How many powders and pearls you got? :oLOL

[ctom]

Lots of powder paint. Most are protect but I have several after-market commercial paints too. Pearls? We shouldn't go there maybe. lol I suppose something in the neighborhood of thirty five, but most are the high end automotive color shifting ones.