need some help in painting with airbrush

There's a story about a fellow driving down the streets of New York City, and he sees a musician carrying his intstrument with him as he walks. He waves and stops the gentleman, and asks, "Can you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?" The musician replies, "Practice, practice, practice."

In a nutshell, that's what you need to do: build and practice. As a suggestion, I would post any specific questions about colors and camoflage you may have in the armor and aircraft forums. You'll find a ton of folks who will be glad to help you out. For specific airbrush questions, come here. Our resident airbrush expert, MikeV, can answer your particular questions on the airbrush, and the rest of us will jump in with paint recommendations.

Lastly, (maybe this should have been first) do a search on your particular questions. Could be that it has been asked before.

Good luck, and welcome to the forum family!
Gip Winecoff

Gip is correct, practice, practice, practice. Try working with some masks, I use a variety of things to mask with from tape to cut paper forms or even silly putty or blue tac. Once you have a mask in place try to keep your airbrush at 90 degrees to the surface so as to not blow paint under the mask and to maintain an even color transition.. Suggest reducing your airpressure for working around the edge of the mask like to about 10psi then step it back up when doing the central areas. Having a clean surface to start with is very important so that the paint can bond well and the masks will not pull off the lower levels of paint when you remove them.

Go buy a cheap kit and play around with it - do something that will not bother you if it doesn't turn out like you want. It'll give you good pratice and you might even turn out a winner.

I agree with both Gip and Matt, ask specific questions here and we will try and help. These guys are good and are knowledgable in many aspects of this hobby. I have much to learn from them myself.

Mike

thank you guys for the much needed advise you just gave me. guess all i have to do first is real and actual practice of the craft. thanx again and hope you had a merry christmas!