some of my latest and greatest

[RhettWheeler]

Def. diggin' this color pattern. I'm working on doing something similar with some copper colors, greens, blues, purples, reds, metallics etc. I call it my "goby ninja" color pattern.
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj23 ... 16a438.jpg

4.5" bluegill or what i call a "jelly gill" Gotta love alumidust.
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj23 ... 7ac427.jpg

isn't it a little early in the season for chili peppers? Watermelonish head with a sparkling copper tail.
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj23 ... aec85b.jpg

here perchy perchy perchy. These look killer on a jighead by the way. Great bottom action.
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj23 ... f318e2.jpg

8" what I call a "mean sardine" haha. I like these model because I can pull off some really cool paintjobs.
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj23 ... cfaa97.jpg

I owe a lot to you guys for your makelure.com. I found a new hobby that keeps me out of trouble that I'm actually kind of decent at! I never had any artistic talents that I knew of before this. Thanks again!

[dahlberg]

Wow! Those look totally amazing. Great work, and thanks for posting!
L

[RhettWheeler]

Thanks so much Larry!

I've got a couple anglers in south Florida who want to try a "baby snakehead" pattern for largemouth. I'm going to see if I can whip something like that up.

[Mike - Alumilite]

PHENOM!!!

I'm admittedly going to try to plagiarize a pattern or two to put on the split tail grub ... in particular the jelly gill ... that looks sweet.

Mike

[Watchhiller]

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[RhettWheeler]

Thanks guys! Mike, twin tail grub is one of my favorite lures for largies. Such a great profile that looks almost froggish..almost crawish... and somewhat minnow like. Covers all the bases.

Here's a couple more i whipped up this afternoon. Now i'm starting to play around with pouring different color plastics instead of painting over everything. I tend to find that the darker color plastics cause the alumidust to appear a little different. So far the one that seems to take all colors equally well and make them really "pop" is painting over a pearl plastic (just alumisol and the pearl alumidust mixed to the opacity you desire. Anyway, enough rambling from me. Here's lures.

Sweet, sweet lures.

Sparkling copper head with a black and copper flake body. I dig it. Somethings gonna gobble this up. Not sure if the color will make that much difference but I think it has the profile and action to make up the difference.
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj23 ... 3f6791.jpg

a couple 10.5" models i like. top is just tiger stripe painted with pewter alumidust. Bottom is my favorite: "Goby ninja" gold pattern over a black with copper flake body. Love it.
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj23 ... 15df3d.jpg

[RhettWheeler]

Mike - Alumilite wrote:
> PHENOM!!!
>
> I'm admittedly going to try to plagiarize a pattern or two to put on the
> split tail grub ... in particular the jelly gill ... that looks sweet.
>
> Mike


Hey mike so for the Jelly Gill I do the black first, The i outline all the black with Forest Green then use either "green" or "lite green" to fill in anything I want green. I think having the slightly darker green fading off the black really makes it look realistic.