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Originally Posted by Brother Warchild  What about air brush comp,does anyone have a sug on what model? |
I bought an air tank at Wally World for about $20. A pressure regulator was another $15, and a water trap was about $10. It last's me about 12 hours for painting at 25 PSI, and that costs me $0.50 to fill up at the gas station. I bought the Testor's mini compressor at Wally World for $60 (with a cheap- a** A270 Aztek Airbrush), and the tank does much better.
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Originally Posted by Monodominant I've been looking around for an answer to
Is it a reasonable idea to thin down a basecoat color paint (white, black, etc.) a bit and apply that as a basecoat, instead of using a spray? Or is it just the wrong kind of paint? |
Most of the time, you want to use a different type of paint for your base than you you use for your topcoat. If you paint with acrylics (water-based, i.e. GW or Apple Crate) you need to basecoat with enamel or lacquer. This will keep your base coat from bleeding through to your topcoat. The purpose of a basecoat, or primer, is to coat the model and give the Acrylic paint something to stick to. It's a good idea also to wash your sprues in warm, soapy water, to wash away the mold release (usually silicone) used in the molding process. Silicone will cause paint to pull away, resulting in a condition called "fish-eye", where the paint doesn't adhere to spots of the model coated with mold-release, and the paint will pull away from those spots in a circular or oval formation, much like the eye of a fish.
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Originally Posted by Lord Commander Erus Use a well lit area. Daylight is the best, but if you can't get it, try soft light. The new swirly energy conservative bulbs work great for this, and don't get hot as easily. It sucks to burn yourself on the lamp, trust me I know.
Do NOT.. I repeat DO NOT use fluorescent lighting to paint by... It does not even make and effort to simulate daylight in it's output, so what you see as your painting (if you paint by fluorescent light) may not be how the mini looks afterwards. Though, Andy Warhol made a mint doing distorted color paintings and such... So I suppose you could try the same thing with minis... |
The color of Daylight is 5500 degrees Kelvin. Photographers use lamps of this color temperature to approximate the color of sunlight. Normal incandescent bulbs are much too yellow, and standard fluorescent lamps are actually more purple in color. Daylight bulbs are available at your local photo shop, and there is a modeler's lamp called the Ott-Lite that is equal to the color of sunlight.
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Originally Posted by Brother Warchild There's bulbs for said lamps called daylight bulbs work awesome.
Yhis is my first time with AB paints whats the best thinning ratio? |
A good rule of thumb for thinning paints for airbrushing is to thin to the
consistency of milk, or between 50 and 65% paint and the remainder in thinner.