Building terrain of Doom
Airbrush of Doom
Having a few buildings left to do I thought I would try to speed up the process by investing in an airbrush.
Turns out they are pretty expensive so I took a look about on the interwebs and came across rechargeable airbrushes used for make up with a built in compressor.
So for the price of about 2 rattle cans I thought I would give it a go at the very least I can give my self a spray tan if it does not work.
The first thing I worked out is that although acrylic paint is not smelly airbrush cleaner is so I went out to the shed with my cardboard box spray booth to experiment with the spray gun, cool thing is because its rechargeable I don’t have to worry about getting power to it.
The brush of doom in all its gloryThings I learned today…
Airbrushing takes a bit of practice to get a cool result but is fun to mess about with.
This brush is pretty cool as long as you only want to base coat or create zenithal highlights and am looking forward to messing about with stencils in the future.
I have not found a way of making the spray fine enough for smaller details but think that may be due to the uneven pressure produced by the small compressor.
I used vallejo paints with airbrush thinner and flow Improver mixed in I learned pretty quickly that there is a sweet spot of both not enough and the paint splatters in blobs like a morning after a curry, too much and the paint beads off the plastic.
Once I worked it out the buildings were pretty quickly painted.
Not enough thinner creating blobs of paint forced out the needle
Too much thinner takes ages to dry and pools, if the brush gets too close it blows the wet paint off
My first bit of airbrushing, pretty happy with the result and it was super quick.
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