Terrain Challenge: Zombie Sub-urbs

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Airbrush shenanigans

July 24, 2018

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So apperantly there’s mor to airbrushing than spray and pray.

I played around a bit with it before, but during my first attempt it took over 3 hours. My spray was way to small and the result ended rather blodgy.

In the end it appeared the final tip of the airbrush that guides the needle got loose. Luckily I recovered it. My own fault offcourse.

More importantly, I discovered for these bigger project I needed to increase the PSI to about 40 instead of the 20 normally suggested for miniatures. The second result was far better. Not good enough for a miniature, but on a building that should show some sign of age it’s fine, especially once I drybrushed and washed it

First attempt

Succes

In the meantime I made some wash. I needed something close to armypainters Strongtone, but like loads of it. Enough for this project would have cost me…

ONE MILLION DOLLAR.....

Or a tad less. Not on option anyway. I made my own with about 1/3 Isopropanol 2/3 water (demineralised to make sure it keeps) and then add chestnut and black ink untill I was happy with the result.

And… it’s crap. Seriously don’t do this. It just pools or flows strait from the model. I’m going to try some different options, but don’t use this one….