Re: Paint for Airbrushes
- From: "Elliott Cowton" <elliott.cowton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:02:40 GMT
"Eddie Bray" <eddiebray???@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> After reding the thread on airbrushing, I wondered what peoples
preferences
> may be as to the paint they use.
>
> Which paint do you prefer to use in your airbrush for ease of use and
> quality of work, and/or ease of cleaning?
>
> Spirit based paint such as enamels?
>
> Acrylic water soluble based paint.?
>
Has to be enamels, humbrol, rail match, or whatever other makes there are.
I have tried to spray acrylics but never had any success. Even tried adding
Iso Propyl Alcohol to the spray mix (as recommended on this group) and it
makes no difference, the finish is always uneven and blotchy at best, and
the brush always seems to get clogged.
When I last asked about this here I was spraying a model of DS9 for my son.
Did the stand in Humbrol matt black and ring of the station in Acrylic
Desert Sand. I took both parts into Wicor Models and asked Dave for an
opinion. Apparently there is nothing wrong with my technique (judged from
the stand) so the c**p finish on the ring must be due to the paint (so he
said). It must be possible to spray acrylics because son now does warhammer
and he uses an acrylic black spray in an aerosol to undercoat the models
before he finishes them, but what the secret ingredient is that makes it
work I have no idea.
If anyone does spray acrylics successfully I would be interested to hear
about how they do it.
Elliott
.
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