Tempra

Jeff,

Ask this on the WCA forum and you will get an answer I am sure.

Mike

I have only done Tempra through the Wood-tek Azbak with success...

Seriously though, I am not the airbrush knowledge base like Mike and Chris but Tempra has solid particulates in it and I would wonder how those would go through the brush... could you do it in craft acrylics? (the 88 cents a bottle things at Michaels and hobby Lobby)?

Plus in my limited experience with an airbrush and vast experience as a kid... Tempras dont thin well, they tend to run bad when watered down. unless you have a really potent air source to barely thin them and force it through but I imagine that would pose it's own risks...

this is probably a question for Chis or Mike but I would be wary myself without "higher knowledge"

BTW: your wife is a teacher? Mine is... I am always doing stuff for her class... it's kinda cool actually. My wife teaches bilingual Pre-K. You can imagine the stuff she comes up with for me to do!!! Right now I am trying to figure out how to make a 5 foot monkey for this years talent show... no wood mind you.... ::rolling eyes::

Ok I give... the WCA forum?

I searched but couldn't find....

Wife Creating A lot of work?
Wife is Crazy need Assistance?

haha kidding... just curious of this other forum before the same thing besets me... wife being a teach and all... (already commited to do 10 T-shirts for her karate class, and thats AFTER school time!)

tho9900 www.westcoastairbrush.com

QUOTE: Originally posted by woodbeck3 tho9900 www.westcoastairbrush.com

cool, thanks!!!

Tom

Jeff,

I would buy some Createx or Aqua Flow myself as they are ready to spray right out of the bottle.

Mike

I don't think you will have problem- I have done it before but it was over ten years ago so I don't remember if I had any major problems just use the large head assembly and you should be fine. Can you get some tempra paint to try out first just to make sure?
John

Knowlege base?!!!LOL i airbrushed for about a year on cloth in highschool using Delta fabric paints, then chased other things for 17 years until i returned to airbrushing on plastic last year. over the last year, especially between Sept 03-Mar 04, i concentrated on nothing but trial and error with all sorts of airbrush weathering techniques, tricks, and just plain logging time with an airbrush. i gathered lots of info from these sessions, as well as reading from this forum as i went. so, while i may know a very tiny bit about airbrushing, Mike is by far the "knowledge base" around these parts. i know, i know, its sad ain't it?!! just by reading and some of Mike's posts, you should be able to spray cats and dogs through a Cresendo. good luck. later.

Well my main problem was I needed a black background and this is a fair sized mural. But I was just inform I am doing this on black paper. So the Comart paints are gettin whipped out and I am going to town tomorrow. yeah baby (saud as austin powers or saltydog...bet they sound the same )
......................... BADGER!!

My Mom and Stepfather are both teachers Woodbeck. One of the toughest least respected and lowest paid jobs there is. Also, one of the most important.