Spraying Tri-clour camoufloge

I just bring the air pressure down to between 10-15 psi (or even less) and spray very close and watch the direction of spray. In some cases you may have to mask but I avoid it as much as I can when doing soft-edge schemes.

QUOTE: Originally posted by plum1030 I just bring the air pressure down to between 10-15 psi (or even less) and spray very close and watch the direction of spray. In some cases you may have to mask but I avoid it as much as I can when doing soft-edge schemes.

Are you saying you essencially draw the scheme on and then use the airbrush to outline these shapes.

I'm going to be doing my first camo soon and it is probably going to be the Overlapping method"

I outline with the airbrush close then pull back to fill in. If this causes trouble with overspray then you might have to mask or just fill in keeping the airbrush close. Some people draw it on first, but I haven't tried that yet. I just do freehand.

Carnage.
I do my schemes the same way plum1030 describes - just remember to keep the airbrush pointed back into the color you are applying. It will take some practice though.
If that idea bothers you, check the back issues of FSM. I seem to remember a couple of articles describing methods of getting "soft" edges using masking. I've never tried them but they might be what you want.
By the way I use a 50/50 mixture of thinner to paint (enamel)

QUOTE: Originally posted by qmiester Carnage. I do my schemes the same way plum1030 describes - just remember to keep the airbrush pointed back into the color you are applying. It will take some practice though. If that idea bothers you, check the back issues of FSM. I seem to remember a couple of articles describing methods of getting "soft" edges using masking. I've never tried them but they might be what you want. By the way I use a 50/50 mixture of thinner to paint (enamel)

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yep best way is to keep the paint uber thin, then u make sure that u are pointed in the direction of what you are filling in, the paint will take a while to fill in but it is better and it will go on thinner, preserving the nice panel lines for washing later.

Carnage,

What airbrush are you using and tell us about your technique, just curious. Sometimes the design of the airbrush can shed some light on how it achieves fine lines for muti-color camo outlining with little or no overspray; for example my single action, external mix, Paasche-H requires thin(1:1mix) paint, high pressure, low paint volume and the #1 tip to achieve excellent soft fines lines(1/16in). Wheres as my double action, internal-mix, Iwata HP-CS can take a thicker reletively thin (2:1 mix) paint, low pressure(10 psi), and a slight pull-back on the trigger to get awesome, superbely atomized fine lines(1/32in) for out-lining. Generally you will get less over-spray with thinner paint and lower air pressures; however as in the case of airbrushes such as the Paasche-H set up can differ due to it's design.

How do you regulate the psi on the compressor. I hadnt thought about reducing pressure when doing camo.

I use between 5 and 10 psi,and a very thinned almost a wash when spraying the 3 tone paint scheme also i free hand my paint scheme as if it was done in the feild mainly WW11 models-------experiment ---it's your best teacher----good luck