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My home-made spray booth

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  • Member since
    March 2006
  • From: South Coast, UK
My home-made spray booth
Posted by NikToo on Saturday, April 8, 2006 3:45 PM
Decided that if I was going to do airbrushing, I needed a spraybooth. As they cost a stupid amount of money, I built my own with the aid of my father-in-law (who's a genius on these matters).

In all, the whole booth cost me about £25 for the wood, a bathroom extractor fan, a kitchen lamp, some sockets and cabling. It's nice and sturdy and exhausts via a tube out the window. I also put handles on the sides as the top part can come off for storage (I saw another forum member's booth had handles and thought it was a great idea) and a small hook in the wall to hold the airbrush.

Here are some images:

Workstation 1
Workstation 2
On the bench: Tamiya 1/48 Tiger I: Tamiya 1/48 Jagdpanther: Skybow 1/48 Tiger I Late:
  • Member since
    February 2006
  • From: Southeast Louisiana
Posted by Wulf on Saturday, April 8, 2006 7:22 PM
Nice work! Can't go wrong with that.
  • Member since
    May 2005
  • From: Left forever
Posted by Bgrigg on Saturday, April 8, 2006 7:32 PM
Very nice. I trust the fan has a brushless (which means sparkless!) motor? If you put some poly or lexan doors on it and that will make a nice dustless drying booth as well.

So long folks!

  • Member since
    March 2006
  • From: South Coast, UK
Posted by NikToo on Sunday, April 9, 2006 2:30 AM
Thanks. Smile [:)]

The fan probably isn't brushless, but the housing closes over the "electrical bits" quite well. It's meant for bathroom use so I guess it's meant to be able to keep steam out of the housing.
On the bench: Tamiya 1/48 Tiger I: Tamiya 1/48 Jagdpanther: Skybow 1/48 Tiger I Late:
  • Member since
    January 2003
  • From: Burlington, Ontario Canada
Posted by gburdon on Monday, April 10, 2006 4:05 PM

NikToo;

That is an excellent build.

The only suggestions I would add to it. Paint the interior white. The second is further to what Bill Grigg mentioned. By adding Perspex, Lexan or similar type you will reduce the amount of dust settling on your painted item.

I added mine using a metal picture frame taken apart as the sliders. You could visit a local boot sale and find a frame of the correct measurement. Dispose of the art work, backing board and one edge and you will be left with a three-sided slider that you can mount to the front of your booth. Then slide your piece of Perspex etc. in and you're done.

Cheers;

Gregory

 

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