Outstanding work. Best I've seen yet and that includes Hebert and Potters work.
Ive been getting my stuff ready. I have some of the paints on hand but of course weather turned frigid and I've been recovering from a cold. While being laid up, decided to buy the airbrush Pat suggested early on and also have metalume and black coming. I'll play with these to start developing some skill and we'll see where I end up in the early trials.
Well thank you sir.
You know as well as I that a lot of this stuff is just attention to all the little details.
OK when you get your airbrush you will want to run it around 25 to 30 pounds. All of the House of Kolor paints are reduced 50%. I run the same 50% reduction for my HVLP guns and my airbrushes. You may find you need to reduce it a hair more for an airbrush. Now keep this in mind, white is the worst color there is to shoot in an airbrush. Almost all paint brands are the same. The reason is the pigments in white paint are larger. With white, you will get what is called Tip Dry. What is does is literally dry on the tip and needle of the airbrush and all of a sudden it spits out a nice blob of white paint. The best thing to do is to just clean the tip of the brush every now and then, You can usually hear it and it will kind of hiss when it's getting ready to spit. Most other colors are fine. The best color to practice with is black.
OK, one major difference from shooting an airbrush versus an air gun is to
always leave the air on with an airbrush. This is for a double action like you will have. Just hold down the trigger all the time. You will then just pull back on the trigger to release the paint. The more you pull back, the more paint comes out. Everyone that starts out wants to stab at it and push the air down and then pull back. If you do that you will have no control over the brush.
Practice on card stock or cardboard. The first thing to do is learn to make uniform dots. Be fairly close and just pull back just a hair until the paint comes out. When you have to dot you want, just move the trigger forward, but leave the air on. The further you are from the surface, the bigger the dot will be and the more paint you will need.
Then start working drawing straight consistent lines, again leaving the air on all the time and just move the brush as you pull back on the trigger. The faster you move the more paint you need. The further you are away, the more paint you need. The closer the less paint.
There is a learning curve, but it comes fast,