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Painting on the road

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  • Member since
    November 2004
  • From: Canada
Painting on the road
Posted by 1seventytwobuilder on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 10:14 PM
I am going to be working out of town for much of the next 3 months. Since being out of town can be boring, I plan to build some 1/72 and 1/48 scale armour. Building is no big deal its fairly easy to pack a compact set of tools to build with. Painting however is another issue. I would have liked to airbrush, but lugging a compressor onto flights and then using in a hotel suite is probably not really doable. My brush painting is not great, especially with acrylics. Has anyone got any ideas. Compressed air cyclinders would work, but I suspect I cant take them on a plane, plus they run out pretty fast??

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  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:21 AM
I would just save the big painting for trips home. I guess rattlecans would work though (ie spraypaint). If you've never used spraypaint before on models lots of bad things can happen. Just follow the 1-2 foot rule. Keep the can as far away from the model as possible when spraying and paint at least 1 light mist coat first. Not as good as an AB, you can't do panel shading, you have to be real careful with masking canopies, but it will work. Good luck.
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