Newbie airbrushes

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Mathew

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Hi, I just recently started to experiment with airbrushes.
I've been a hobby artist you might say for more than 26 years my main area of interest is pinup art/comic and anime or eastern art?
Ok tools
Compressor. sparmax 520
Airbrush badger patriot, great little brush, easy to clean and works great.
Also recently purchased a iwata cm c plus, love this brush even though I'm new to this art form I wanted a finer detail brush to compliment my badger.
My first few works I used frisket and and had troubles with the frisket tearning the paper :(. I've bought some hot pressed paper to try and some illustration board also hoping this works better.
I've thought about getting a airbrush for a while now, and now I have, I'm loving it :)
 
Hi, Mathew, and welcome to your new learning place.
You have found the best place on the Net to get ideas, help and friendly advice on all things airbrush.
Welcome from Australia!
 
Mathew said:
Hi, I just recently started to experiment with airbrushes.
I've been a hobby artist you might say for more than 26 years my main area of interest is pinup art/comic and anime or eastern art?
Ok tools
Compressor. sparmax 520
Airbrush badger patriot, great little brush, easy to clean and works great.
Also recently purchased a iwata cm c plus, love this brush even though I'm new to this art form I wanted a finer detail brush to compliment my badger.
My first few works I used frisket and and had troubles with the frisket tearning the paper :(. I've bought some hot pressed paper to try and some illustration board also hoping this works better.
I've thought about getting a airbrush for a while now, and now I have, I'm loving it :)
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Hi Mathew and welcome aboard, in regards to your frisket stick it to your clothing a couple of times this will take a lot of the stickyness off it and should stop it lifting your surface
 
matty171 said:
Hi Mathew and welcome aboard, in regards to your frisket stick it to your clothing a couple of times this will take a lot of the stickyness off it and should stop it lifting your surface
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Thanks, Ill try that on my next one. trying a bit of free hand stuff to :)
 
Hi From New Zealand... lots of cool stuff here - and heaps of really helpful people!
 
Welcome from Lincoln in the UK. I'm going to start with a question straight away so sorry to spring this on you but I am as new to airbrushing as can be. I did a search on this site for the badger 105 patriot which I have would you be kind enough to let me know what air pressure you are running yours at and what paint you are using? I am having a few problems I am using Vallejo Paints and running the psi at about 28. any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
 
thorofasgard said:
Welcome from Lincoln in the UK. I'm going to start with a question straight away so sorry to spring this on you but I am as new to airbrushing as can be. I did a search on this site for the badger 105 patriot which I have would you be kind enough to let me know what air pressure you are running yours at and what paint you are using? I am having a few problems I am using Vallejo Paints and running the psi at about 28. any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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G'day


I'm pretty new also. been using my badger for about a month? I think.

Airbrush paint. I'm using createx wicked, just recently bought some black and some white createx illustration paint that I am trying out also, both
seem like really good paints.

My first thought is that 28 sounds a bit high? but from what I have read it depends on a lot of factors. I use between 18 and 21 psi.

I wish I new a bit more, but I think setting the airpressure depends on how thick the paint is. or how thinned down it is and needle size. The patriot
has a .3 needle I think and should be able to paint pretty well with all paints.

hope I have helped some.
 
Mathew said:
The patriot
has a .3 needle I think and should be able to paint pretty well with all paints.

hope I have helped some.
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I'm pretty sure the needle that comes with it is the .5mm (F), I bought the larger .75mm (M). I think the .3mm is purchased separately as the Ultra Fine conversion kit.

The .5mm is very forgiving with paint reductions, and the psi should be fine around 20-30, but I know nothing of the paints being used.
 
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