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With those needle sizes your airbrush should be perfect. The variable is the operator. Just take your time and practice on another old model first. It helps to look at pics of real machines to get an idea of the shapes of the camo rings, so you don't end up with them all looking relatively the same. There are aftermarket smoke ring decals that look really convincing too.

Thanks. The aftermarket decals are sorely tempting. Having said that, I think I'll trying by hand first. If Ifall on my face it won't be the first time. And you're rightabout not making the shapes too similar. I think that may be half the work.