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Airbrushing - query about paint pots

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  • Member since
    February 2013
Airbrushing - query about paint pots
Posted by Raven Morpheus on Sunday, July 21, 2013 3:35 AM

Hello

I've never really done any airbrushing with paints, but recently I bought myself a Badger 250 and used that to apply a coat of Klear on a UH-1D I've been building.

That went well.

However I now want to airbrush a base/main coat on a model I'm due to receive.

I intend to buy Humbrol 14ml acrylic paint pots of the colour for the base coat (because I can't find a spray can of it) so I'm wondering if just one paint pot, poured into the Badger 250 paint jar and thinned a little with water (or even not thinned at all) will be enough to spray an entire helicopter model that is about 12" in length and about 3" wide?

Any other tips on using paint from the Humbrol 14ml acrylic pots to airbrush would also be greatly received as I don't really know what I'm doing.

Thanks in advance.

  • Member since
    October 2012
Posted by Bricko86 on Saturday, December 28, 2013 11:43 PM

Hi there

I would thin the paint with the appropriate thinner. Also several thinner coats work better than one thick one. I normally use Tamiya acrylics and they are only 10ml bottles and last me a couple of models, depending on the scale. hope this helps.

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