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  • Member since
    October 2008
  • From: Fullerton, Calif.
Posted by Don Wheeler on Thursday, March 4, 2010 12:48 PM

Here are my thoughts on the subject.

Don

https://sites.google.com/site/donsairbrushtips/home

A collection of airbrush tips and reviews

Also an Amazon E-book and paperback of tips.

  • Member since
    April 2004
  • From: Windy city, US
Posted by keilau on Thursday, March 4, 2010 11:43 AM

VanceCrozier

Good idea with the colouring book Hawkeye - I wonder how many of us could actually stay inside the lines!!

Vance

We all know the answer. That's why we paint models only and leave the color book for the kids.

When I need to test out a new airbrush, paper tower comes in handy. Wink

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Rothesay, NB Canada
Posted by VanceCrozier on Thursday, March 4, 2010 7:42 AM

Good idea with the colouring book Hawkeye - I wonder how many of us could actually stay inside the lines!!

Vance

On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister

  • Member since
    August 2006
  • From: Neenah, WI
Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Thursday, March 4, 2010 7:38 AM

If it is rough it means you are probably using too much pressure, holding the brush too far away from what you are painting and yes might have the paint not thinned enough. Until you get more comfortable with the airbrush don't paint something important.

Get some cheap acrylic paints from the craft store and a coloring book. Use the airbrush to paint the pictures, practicing your control and different techniques to apply the paint. Some say that a piece of paper is too absorbent compared to a plastic model. True. So you give the page a coat of Future first. You can also wrap the page around a piece of PVC pipe or something else to replicate a curved surface and again take a wide brush to apply some Future to it to seal the paper, then practice painting with your airbrush.

Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt

http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/

 

 

"Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Northern Virginia
Posted by hutchdh on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 6:52 PM

hutchdh

You definitely need to thin....I would experiment with trying to at least thin 3 parts paint to 2 parts thinner.  You can use either Model Master thinner or Mineral Spirits. 

Whoa, time out...mixture mentioned is for enamel Embarrassed..... use Model Master Acrylic thinner or 91% Isopropyl Alcohol and try thinning 1:1.

Sorry for the oversight...

Hutch

 On the Bench: 1:48 HobbyBoss Ta152-C; 1:48 & 1:72 Hasegawa F-104G NATO Bavaria

In queue: 1:48 Academy F-4B & a TBD Eric Hartmann bird

Recently completed: 1:32 Trumpeter P-51B

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Northern Virginia
Posted by hutchdh on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 6:49 PM

You definitely need to thin....I would experiment with trying to at least thin 3 parts paint to 2 parts thinner.  You can use either Model Master thinner or Mineral Spirits. 

Hutch

 On the Bench: 1:48 HobbyBoss Ta152-C; 1:48 & 1:72 Hasegawa F-104G NATO Bavaria

In queue: 1:48 Academy F-4B & a TBD Eric Hartmann bird

Recently completed: 1:32 Trumpeter P-51B

  • Member since
    March 2010
New to Airbrush...
Posted by eboggs on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 6:30 PM

Well, ive modeled most of my life..(im 19)..Im an artistic person so modeling is just one way for me to express my artistic abilities..(may be the weakest too Embarrassed ) anyway.. I purchased a Paasche VL Double Action Air Brush and am still learning...

I recently painted a Model using Model Master Acryl paint...It says on the bottle (IF NEEDED) "thinned"...I did not thin my paint....i cant help but notice my paint is...well....rough? kinda got a little texture to it...as dissapointed as i am..i will finish the model as is and learn from the experience....If indeed something is wrong...

 

I have my compressor set at 30 psi. what am i doing wrong if anything?

Thanks

Ethan

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