Easy, quick, and fun models?

Regulators are a required item in my book. Compressors pulse pressure too much even with used in conjunction with a holding tank. Regulator and moisture trap...are REQUIRED accessories!

I have several airbrushes. I have Paasche, Iwata and Badger as well as an old Binks. They all apply paint well, though I am using the Iwata's more because of their versitility and simplicity. Any airbrush is only as good as the operator. Granted some do better with fine detail by design where other cover larger areas but don't do well with intricate work. I use single action for large overall coverage applications and the doubles for medium coverage to fine detail work. I try to airbrush as much of a project as I can including small parts.

The paint scheme is a simple three color one. Upper base of a tan, lower light blue and the green is freehanded with the airbrush. Models like this make great test mules to practice on. If you don't like the way it turns out, give it an overall coat of a light gray and start again and again. Practice by doing solid colors first, making sure you are getting a even coverage. You can practice this by doing a light base coat then apply a darker one. Watch the pattern your airbrush lays down. You can adjust the pattern by the distance you hold the airbrush from the model while spraying. **Remember light coats are better than solid thick ones.**

What type of airbrush are you planning on using, single or double action?

Trace an outline of your model on a large piece of paper. Use some cheap acrylic paints to practice your strokes. Once you're comfortable with doing base coats, then try free handing details such as blotches, lines, patterns. You'll do well, just takes a little time and practice. Building models is the same, clunky at first, refined later.

Cheers! 

If you like little things with wings, most of the 72nd kits from Hobby Boss are actually quite nice. They're fairly accurate, and all are simple to assemble; there aren't a helluvalotta parts to any of them, and the fuselage and wings are each one piece... my MiG-3 was totally assembled and cleaned up in about 45 minutes. Painting and weathering will of course take the normal amount of time, but that's the fun part of building, for me anyway.

They're also inexpensive... I think the retail is $7-8 each. 

Fade to Black... 

Here is a Bf109 that I slammed together in just a couple of hours from start to finish using only cement, knive, putty and sanding stick. The painting took longer than the build itself. It was all for fun to see what the kits were about. For under $10 it was a hoot.

I can search the local WM here for kits if anybody is interested. I know there were a couple of 109s left where I got mine. We have four WM Superstores within 18 miles of each other.