Re: The Joys of Air Brushing.

On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 23:33:47 -0500, "Mark A. Siefert"
<siefert@milwpc.com>
wrote:

>	If all goes well, it should be quite a striking model.	If
not... my
>tank will be getting a Formula 409 bath.  In the meantime, does anyone
>have any over all tips or suggestions about air brushing figs?

Talk about synchronicity. I painted up some 25mm Kryomek grav tanks and
GZG
VTOLS using my airbrush for the cammo schemes.

It's not THAT expensive a brush, so I can't do very, very fine work.
But, for
the work I'm after, it's fine.

I did find that it's good for doing base coat painting. I'm painting
some FSE
ships. I took some Tamiya dark blue, thinned it with Tamiya thinner, and
painted the ships with my airbrush. It was very quick. Now I just paint
the
panels in a lighter colour. I could use a spray paint, but then if I
have to
do touch ups it's hard to find regular paint to match. Assuming I could
find
the right colour. I plan to do my NAC ships with Tamiya light grey
first, and
then paint their panels in white.

Other than that, if it's a cheap airbrush you won't be able to do any
fine
work. But you could do a killer Kra'vak cammo on some Kra'vak FT ships. 

Good luck with it, Mark.

Allan Goodall		       agoodall@interlog.com
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