I'll appologize in advance if this has allready been discussed in the past.....
In the other thread we were sharing stories about the trouble we've had brush painting Tamiya paints. A few people said they didnt have a problem but the consensus seem to be that unless you are "dotting" minute details, they are a challenge to brush paint. Yet whenever I read a build article, 98% of the time the author talks of using Tamiya color this or that.
It got me thinking about my next project which is purely in the planning stages right now. Despite having once sworn to never, ever brush with Tamiya again, I want to give them a second chance. Why? The full line is availiable arround the corner from where I work, but more significantly my wife HATES the smell of enamel clean-up, and I must admit that while they have served me VERY well in the past, I was never fond of cleaning my airbrush after enamel use.
I have in the past airbrushed Tamiyas with good results. The only trouble I had was trying to do any "psudo fine" work with my Badger 350. I found the tip clogged often, requiring me to open it up, waste paint and air flushing it, and proceed. This is an issue for me because I use canned air (and every "pfffft" counts!
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). "Broad", course airbrushing is no problem.
I wonder if I could use Tamiya's paint for airbrushing base colors and other broad things like dustings etc. then hand brush enamels for everything else, fine detials, washes, dry brushing etc. I would probably coat the acrylic bass color with with MicroGloss before moving on the enamel detaling (finishing the whole thing with MicroFlat).
Even if the above is doable, I might run into some color issues (where I need to touch up the base color for example) so I may inevitably need to give hand brushing Tamiya paint another try. I welcome ANY advice in this regard. The problem I had last time I tried is that I could NOT get a remotely even coverage, even of a small area (say the size of a coin). It just seemed like I had ONE shot at it, one stroke. If I came back over, even right away, the second stroke would just tear the first and ruine it (I'd have to wipe it all off with cleaner/thiner, and start over).