Is it me or the paint?

I'm not sure what Formula P3 is, but your pressure seems way too high, for one thing. For a gravity fed airbrush, use about 15 psi. For gravity fed, you might go down to 10 psi.

Anther problem might be using too much retarder. You need about 0.5 ml or less (half a drop) per5 to 10 ml of paint. 

Triarius wrote:

I'm not sure what Formula P3 is, but your pressure seems way too high, for one thing. For a gravity fed airbrush, use about 15 psi. For gravity fed, you might go down to 10 psi.

Ross,

I think you may be getting your AB's mixed up - the B-350 is a single-action siphon feed external mix model. Anything in the 20-30psi range should be ok for this model.

Hsnopi

It may be a simple case of having the nozzle set too far open, being too close to the subject and/or roo high air pressure. Though I said above that anywhere 20-30psi should work, knock it back down to about 22psi and go from there. Try varying by up to about +/- 4psi either way and see how that affects your results

Thanks, Phil. I meant to say "gravity fed" followed by "siphon"—but I'm on some fairly strong meds, right now.

"Price check on prune juice, Bob?" 

strong meds are fun.

Formula P3 is a paint for minis. I am wondering if I should just go get a pot of vallejo and see how it works. I put in 2-3 drops of retarder so that sounds like I put in waaay too much. *sigh* I have been fighting this thing for a month and am about to lose my mind. I swear I wanna jsut give up. I can't even get a good spray.

It just needs to be acrylic so i can use my citadel paints wiht them. I am not about to spend another $200 on paints I have collected over the years. I really want to use it to make a good base coat. If I can do mroe with it that would be awesome.