Up until roughly two months ago I’ve been on a very long hiatus from modeling (around 15 years).  I got the itch one day sort of at random and now a month and half later I’m currently half way through my second build.  I already had my Passche H single action from a few years back for some other projects I was doing at the time (duracoating firearms).  I'm using a gravity cup and I run the brush at around 15 to 20 psi while painting with Tamiya and Vallejo paints.  I mix a couple drops of lacquer thinner in the cup with whatever paint I'm spraying.  Now my problem is i can’t seem to get a very good spray quality, there’s time where it seems the brush is spitting the paint versus a nice even spray.  Is that because my pressure isn’t set correctly, or is that due to improper mixing?  If someone could give me a basic run down of the best way to set everything up for the best possible paint job that would be greatly appreciated as I’m a novice with airbrushing!  I hope to purchase a much nicer double action gravity feed brush within the next few months because I’d like to have more flexibility and control which the single action doesn’t really afford, so I figure in the mean time I need to learn this as best I can before stepping up to a double action.

 

This is the first build I did, a simple 1/35^th Hanomag from Tamiya, the weathering ended up being a bit over the top as I got a bit carried away with it being my first build and first attempt at weathering.