With the gold base coat completed it was then time to add the green body colour in a scale pattern. I used a
simple mesh bag, the kind that you get from the supermarket with vegetables or fruit in them. I wrapped the
mesh around each of the lures and stretched it out until I was happy with the size and shape of the pattern. I
then sprayed the green paint rather sparingly over the lures building up the colour in three coats making sure
not to move the lure or mesh between coats. The aerosol spray paints that I used were great because they dried
very quickly - I only needed to wait 30 seconds or so between coats as long as I did not spray the paint on too
heavily.
The lures were now coming along nicely white belly, gold base colour and green
scales. The next step to creating a perch
pattern was to add the black stripes. For
this I was going to need to make some stencils for the pattern. I used my lure making
templates to trace the outline of my lures
onto some cardboard and then drew the
stripes onto them and cut them out using a
utility knife - see the pictures below.