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Spraying Camouflage Freehand

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  • Member since
    August 2012
Spraying Camouflage Freehand
Posted by JMorgan on Friday, November 2, 2012 3:46 AM

WIll a VL suffice to spray camouflage or do I need a gravity feed airbrush to handle the lower pressures along with a needle lock?

  • Member since
    August 2009
  • From: Lund, Sweden
Posted by denstore on Saturday, November 3, 2012 5:14 AM

Yes, but it would probably be easier with a gravity fed airbrush, since it handles paint at low pressure better.

Better an airbrush in the hand, than ten in the car....Stick out tongue

  • Member since
    April 2006
  • From: Denver, Colorado
Posted by waynec on Friday, November 9, 2012 8:16 PM

beenusing an aztek, my first airbrush. it works fine for base coats but tried a small nozzle for camo and it went south.was able to repaint the base coat and may brush paint it. WHAT I SHOULD DO id get over my fear of cleaning my badger and try using it for the camo. thanks for the advice

Никто не Забыт    (No one is Forgotten)
Ничто не Забыто  (Nothing is Forgotten)

 

  • Member since
    June 2012
Posted by Compressorman on Saturday, November 10, 2012 4:00 PM

You can buy metal cups for a VL that just push into the brush the same as the bottles do. This puts the paint level above the airbrush nozzle. Allows you to use lower pressures just as you would a gravity feed.

mgh
  • Member since
    May 2011
  • From: Utah County, Utah
Posted by mgh on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:06 PM

waynec

...get over my fear of cleaning my badger...

Badger promotes itself as being a very easy to clean AB.  Can you elaborate? 

I will be looking around for a double-action AB next year, and would be interested in your opinion.

Thanks a lot.

  • Member since
    February 2010
  • From: New Jersey
Posted by 68GT on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 6:56 PM

Got a picture or a link for the metal cup?

On Ed's bench, ???

  

Dre
  • Member since
    June 2007
  • From: here, not over there
Posted by Dre on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 7:12 PM

I find that a VL will do large to medium sized free-hand camo quite nicely so long as the paint is properly thinned down but is somewhat challenged to do small mottle-style camo.

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