September 23, 2019

3D Printed WWII Bomb Lure

This lure is the “BOMB” it’s literally a novelty AN-M30 WWII 100lb Bomb fishing lure.  This is a scaled down version of the scale desktop display bomb I printed awhile ago and I thought it would be fun to turn it into a fishing lure.

The finished lure measures about 4 inches long.

I’m hoping the nose fuse arming vane acts like the propeller of a tiny torpedo.

There’s a tail fuse vane also so hopefully that adds some noise and bubbles to the action too.

Here it is after clear coating. I left it gritty to give it that rough bomb case look.

(It’s also wet in these pictures so it looks a lot better in real life.)

Unfortunately the clear coat made the lettering run a bit but I’m still happy with how it came out and the fish won’t mind.

It does kind of work like a tiny torpedo but I haven’t caught anything on it yet… it’s only been in the water for testing.

7/15/21 – Managed to get a dink on the refined version of this lure.

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