3CU: How To Paint Halo Fleet Battles – UNSC Epoch-Class Heavy Carrier Part One
September 17, 2015 by elromanozo
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An excellent choice of subject for a tutorial Romain.
I’ve just started my adventure into Airbrushing & I am finding it to be very a interesting process/technique.
With your setting of 1 bar for the pressure, is that the working pressure of the Airbrush itself or the set pressure of the compressor.
Really looking forward to the rest of this tutorial.
@generalmayham Almost certainly that’s the pressure set at the regulator on the compressor 1bar = 15psi approx When i first started mucking about with an airbrush got quite confused about setting pressure, until i was told to hold the trigger down when setting it otherwise your setting the resting pressure not the working pressure, and the working pressure would be a lot lower than the resting pressure, with the regulator i have you want to set the resting pressure to approx double the desired working pressure, i.e. the gauge shows 30psi with the valve closed on the brush and 15psi… Read more »
It’s the working pressure on the regulator, or on the compressor if it has a built-in tank and regulator to keep the pressure constant (which it should).
It’s the pressure you’re working with, really, that’s the only one you’ll even care about, and the only one people will mention in tutorials, because that’s the one that doesn’t vary depending on your setting at home.
Romain nice work on the ship so far. I really like the effects of the blue on the engine of the craft so far. I have a good compressor on my airbrush set up. But the airbrush seems to not have much control. It seems to have one speed Go!
What Airbrush do you use, or suggest to buy. The one i own is a paasche VL-SET.
Thanks for the kind words ! I use a gravity feed double action airbrush… Single action are simply not good enough for anything but basecoating, I’m afraid. The one you buy doesn’t have to be expensive… The one I have at home is a cheap chinese one and is perfectly serviceable, but the one in the studio is an expensive beastie from Iwata (much better than mine, to be sure, but the price isn’t the same)… I haven’t done any airbrush reviewing, but I believe there’s more advice on how to choose airbrushes in the forums. Barring that, Lester Bursley… Read more »
Glad to see this up, I was wondering when the new series will start. Great tutorial as always. Thanks Romain
I have my reg set to a touch over twenty, but I never pull all the way back on the trigger.
That’s what double action is for ! 🙂
new set up looking good guys – very nice to see you moved in to aribrushing and preshading too. its how to paint your model good and quick – and final effect looks like done by pro!
nice will really have to get into model airbrushing, its just that working with airguns over the years tended to put me off with the hassle they can bring Lol.
brilliant ship to work on & love the T-shirt romain.
looking great so far 🙂 the mix of air brushing and brush work looks very effective 😉
Thanks !
As for the mix of airbrush and brushwork, there’s no miniature that’s solely painted with an airbrush. You have to at the very least do the details and touching up with a brush. So a mix of both is a normal way to proceed, as airbrush cannot do by itself at that scale…
yeah I think the final detailing with the brush works very well 🙂
I’ve seen a couple of videos on youtube where people have only used an airbrush to paint everything,
and in those situations it definitely seems to miss the fine details that brush work can add 🙂
so I think the mixture of the two techniques like you’ve used works great together 🙂