Amount of Paint Used During Airbrushing....

That seems like an awful lot of paint. I find it best to do light even coats until you get full coverage. You'll end up with a better finish and use less paint. Of course you'll end up using more white to get coverage than you would other, darker colors.

Prime first! Put down a good coat of enamel or acrylic flat gray as a primer then apply the white - coverage will be much better and you will use less than one bottle. Same applys for using yellow, both these colors can be a real paint in the butt with out a primer. As far as white goes, try using model railroad reffer white - it gives outstanding coverage.

I agree with plum, that is a LOT of paint.

I thin Model Master around 2:1 and spray at about 15-20 psi.
What pressure are you spraying at?
One bottle of Model Master flat white should cover that model easily.

Mike

Hey Swanny,

That B-24 is a beauty my friend!

Mike

QUOTE: Originally posted by MikeV Hey Swanny, That B-24 is a beauty my friend! Mike

Thanks Mike, I'm kind of fond of her myself.

Swanny,

Is that 1/48 scale or 1/72nd?

Mike

QUOTE: Originally posted by MikeV Swanny, Is that 1/48 scale or 1/72nd? Mike

That, my friend, is 1/48. She hangs from the ceiling of my model room near the 1/48 Fw-200 Condor - the two of them caste mighty large shadows.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Swanny That, my friend, is 1/48. She hangs from the ceiling of my model room near the 1/48 Fw-200 Condor - the two of them caste mighty large shadows.

Very nice Swanny. My wife's uncle's dad was a co-pilot in the Liberators. They were tough bombers, unlike the B-17's which were fairly fragile.

Mike

That's the first time I've ever heard B-17s referred to as fragile...

But that's the subject of another topic!
Beautiful Liberator, Swanny!

Irherman, that does sound like a lot of paint. You don't mention what kind of coverage you're getting...do you mean you've blown on 3 bottles of flat white, and it's not white yet? That X-Wing is not a large kit...you should be able to cover the whole thing with probably less than half a bottle.
Maybe you're being a little too thorough? Can you see any detail left on the model?
Just kiddin' ya!
Tell us a bit more about the kind of coverage you're getting, and maybe we can offer more specific advice.

QUOTE: Originally posted by J-Hulk That's the first time I've ever heard B-17s referred to as fragile...

That was in comparison to the B-24.

Mike

Hi, Mike!
Again, sorry to go off topic, but it is my understanding that the B-17 Flying Fortress is universally considered to be one of the toughest, most resilient aircraft ever built, while the B-24, although having greater range and load-carrying ability, had nowhere near the ability to take a punch like the B-17.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love both aircraft, and am by no means bashing the great Liberator, but to call the B-17 "fragile," particularly in comparison with the B-24, does a disservice to that great aircraft, in my opinion.

I'm certainly no expert, so maybe we should post this as a new topic over at the AC forum and see what folks have to say?

By the way, irherman, how goes it with the X-Wing?

QUOTE: Originally posted by J-Hulk Hi, Mike! Again, sorry to go off topic, but it is my understanding that the B-17 Flying Fortress is universally considered to be one of the toughest, most resilient aircraft ever built, while the B-24, although having greater range and load-carrying ability, had nowhere near the ability to take a punch like the B-17. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love both aircraft, and am by no means bashing the great Liberator, but to call the B-17 "fragile," particularly in comparison with the B-24, does a disservice to that great aircraft, in my opinion.

I am no expert on bombers but my understanding is that the B-24's did the low altitude bombing because they could take a hit and the B-17's did more high altitude bombing. I could be wrong though. My wife's uncle told me that his dad was a B-24 co-pilot and he once met another guy who flew B-17's at a gathering. When the other guy told him he flew B-17's my wife's uncle's dad said, "Oh you flew those gliders."
I don't know if that was just a poke at the high altitude missions they flew or not, but I had assumed he said it because they were not as big and tough as the B-24's.

Ai'll ask this in the 'Aircraft' forum as you said and see what we find out.

Mike

Cool, Mike!
I wasn't contesting your statement so much as I was questioning my own understanding of the subject.
Let's see what the experts have to say!

I learn something new every day here!

Brian

Hey everyone!!!!

Thanks for all your responses. I think what my problem has been is that I'm putting too much paint on the X Wing. I worked on it for 3 hours on Saturday, and tried doing light coats, and it's working much better.

Again, thanks for all your help.