Amber

[CrabbyBass]

I went home during my lunch break today to work on making some swim toads.  I am trying to make a swim toad with a green pumpkin top and an amber belly.  I mixed up the amber and poured a bunch of bellies. When matched with the green pumpkin, you can barely see the amber since the green pumpkin is so much darker and the amber is transparent.  Should I add a drop or two of white to make it more of a solid color or will adding more amber make it more solid?  Thanks in advance!

Chuck

[ctom]

I'd just add a couple more drops of the colorant at a time until things come around. I use a lot of ambers because its such a nice natural color. You don't mention glitter in the amber, some gold glitter, not lots, will help the color stand out too. I use gold hi lites in mine often and that really makes the amber pop.

[CrabbyBass]

Thanks Tom!  I was hoping to add more amber, but didn't want to waste the colorant if it wouldn't make a difference.  I had also thought about using gold hilite.  I think that would really make it pop, like you said.  Thanks again!

[Botanophilia]

I dealt with the same thing doing watermelon toads w/ flouro orange bellies.  It sounds hideous, but looks pretty good & orange works well on one of the waters I fish.  I basically doubled the amount of orange colorant I would normally use.  I would think the same should work w/ amber. 

[ctom]

Amber is one of those colors that can be weak looking at get way ahead of itself if you add too much to get a richer color. It mixes in well on cooked plastic so making adjustments can be done as you go....baby steps.

[DobynsTriton]

add more or use gold hi-light to drown the transparentness out some

[CrabbyBass]

Thanks guys!  After some playing around with adding more color, I went ahead and added some gold hilite.  I am happy with the results:



Hard to tell in the pic as I took it with my phone, but the top is green pumpkin black flake.  Thanks again!

[Jason]

Thanks guys!  After some playing around with adding more color, I went ahead and added some gold hilite.  I am happy with the results:



Hard to tell in the pic as I took it with my phone, but the top is green pumpkin black flake.  Thanks again!

Super nice looking baits!  Great job.

[CrabbyBass]

Thanks Jason!

[Jerry V]

Stellar work right there... nice job.

Those baits look to be Iowa Hawkeye colors.  They would fit in around this area pretty good, kinda "blend right in"   

[CrabbyBass]

Thanks Jerry! I sometimes come up with team color combos inadvertently. My daughter yells at me every time I make a green and gold color combo. "Dad, those are Packers colors. Throw them in the garbage." LOL! At least I brought her up right! 

[ctom]

Now that is AMBER.  Sweet.

When laying a darker or translucent color over a lighter transparent color you can often bump into some light problems. Amber in this case didn't get any light transfer from above and that weakened it. Now you know how to drag some zing out of thin colors using a bit of that magic powder.

[CrabbyBass]

Thanks Tom!  Ya, I was having issues with the darker top color "hiding" the lighter transparent colors.  Thanks to the awesome guys on the site, I am learning a lot.  I now know what to do when I run into the same issue.  Thanks guys for the help!

[gstott]

This was a really good thread for me too as I have run into that same problem.  Now to go put this new found knowledge to work.