Poor man's gravity feed... sort of
I had to paint a couple small items today (flat black on my P40's instrument panel and dark gray for the tires). Really just needed a couple drops of paint. So I came up with an idea...
I put a couple drops of acrylic paint in the pocket of an old foil pill package, a drop of thinner, drop of retarder, and mixed it up with a toothpick. Then I took an eye dropper, sucked up the paint, inverted my Badger 200 airbrush and dropped the paint right in where the bottle plugs in. I sprayed the brush using my middle finger on the button (which was now at the bottom). To clean up, I just sprayed out the remaining paint, squirted some windex in there, wiped around a bit with a Q-tip, then squirted some more windex and sprayed it through the brush until it came out clean. Took longer to write about it...
Actually found I had a decent amount of control. It surprised me.
Has anyone else tried this?