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Oldiron's Airbrush Tutorial
Martin (Admin):
While I was coughing me lungs up yesterday (... lovely!) and watching 'American Hot Rod' & 'Orange County Choppers' (motorbikes),
I thought what would be a good idea to have a Mayhem Masterclass on airbrushing.
Many of us have good airbrushes or even those cheapo Humrol things but I for one am too scared to experiment with it.
So what I thought is, someone with a bit of time and experience could teach us the basics, then show us what (& how) to do and set some tasks for
us to try ourselves and post the results on here say on a weekly or monthly bases.
Lessons such as:
1. What type of airbrush do you have?
2. How to setup your air brush. (Do's & Don'ts)
3. How to strip down and clean your air brush.
4. What types of paints and cleaners to use. Viscosity etc.
5. Spraying. How to get even coverage.
6. TASK 1 - spray an A4 piece of cardboard evenly.
(Post pictures and assessment)
7. Marking and spraying a waterline.
8. TASK 2 - Mark up and spay a waterline on a piece of plasticard.
(Post pictures and assessment)
9. Spraying detail components.
etc. etc. We can add lesson and tasks on request.
Good idea? Yes / No?
Who wants to be teacher?
Martin :-)
Popeye:
Good idea Martin though I would'nt be much use coz I wanna learn about airbrushing too.
Colin Bishop:
Some useful tips here (at the risk of a bit of advertising %)) http://www.modelboats.co.uk/news/article.asp?a=4498
Colin
essex2visuvesi:
I have a couple of public domain e-books on the subject of weathering. They are model railway and military related but still have some good tips and techniques that could be transfered to boats
john s 2:
I would certainly like to learn more about airbrushing. Any advice would be of great help. John.
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