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  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:49 PM
Another trick is to spray the area you are painting and after you let go of the airbrush trigger, point the airbrush away from what you are painting and shoot some air out the airbrush without paint. Just push the trigger down, but not back.
This will clear the droplets of wet paint that are still on the needle tip. If you don't do this and point the airbrush at the next spot to airbrush and push the trigger, you get a spattered area.
This would look fine though if you were doing German mottled camo schemes though. Wink [;)]

Mike

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  • Member since
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  • From: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Posted by maddafinga on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:11 PM
Personally, I start in the middle of that color area, then move to the edge where I want my line to be. Be sure to keep your brush pointed into the middle of your color area, so any overspray goes into the body of the color you're painting. When you're painting like this, your paint is pretty thin, and you're painting as fine a line as possible, so there won't be a whole lot of splatter anyway.
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  • Member since
    November 2005
airbrush technique
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 2:12 PM
I'm reading "ABCs of Airbrushing" by Chris Appoldt from 3/02 issue to gain some insight in airbrushing, and I am a bit confused with one thing...

I understand that one should start off and end off the model when airbrushing in order to prevent splatter. However, what about painting something like camoflage? Let's say the primary color is on, and now I'm starting to airbrush the 2nd color for the patterns, I would think you can't start off or end off the model... so what does one do in this case to prevent splatter?

TIA
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