Gareth White
Triple Actioner
I've been lurking here for a while now trying to pick up some tips on this art, so apologies for not saying anything.
I have dabbled in art for some years now (I'm 64) , painting in oils, watercolour and acrylics and some pencil drawing - none of it very good, but it's fun.
What got me into airbrushing ? Well, I made a display case for a Tower of London Poppy for my son out of wood and polycarbonate and couldn't get a decent finish on the wood (he wanted it flat matt black) by hand, so I remembered that somewhere I had a Badger 200 - I think it was - and that should give me a better finish. Well to cut a long story short, I could only find the air hose, nothing else, so I decided to get a cheap airbrush and compressor from ebay. Having done that and enjoyed the experience, I thought "people paint with these" so perhaps I'll find out what its all about.
Again cutting a long story short, I thought the cheap knock offs were not going to be the best, so looked for a decent entry level brush - it was going to be either the Neo or the H&S Ultra. I chose the Ultra as it had good reviews and was easy to clean.
I'm currently experimenting with paint - I want to do 'fine art' rather than T-Shirts etc. but made the wrong initial choice in buying Createx - just black and white (opaque and trans) and played about with reductions doing the beginner dots, lines, daggers etc. I've just purchased the Wicked detail basic primary set which arrived when I was in hospital. Now I've been out a few hours I'm going to have a play with them.
Enough of my rambling, it's good to be here.
Airbrushes: H&S Ultra, (BP-128P, BO212 - came with compressor)
Compressor: AS18-2
Paints: Createx, Wicked Detail
I have dabbled in art for some years now (I'm 64) , painting in oils, watercolour and acrylics and some pencil drawing - none of it very good, but it's fun.
What got me into airbrushing ? Well, I made a display case for a Tower of London Poppy for my son out of wood and polycarbonate and couldn't get a decent finish on the wood (he wanted it flat matt black) by hand, so I remembered that somewhere I had a Badger 200 - I think it was - and that should give me a better finish. Well to cut a long story short, I could only find the air hose, nothing else, so I decided to get a cheap airbrush and compressor from ebay. Having done that and enjoyed the experience, I thought "people paint with these" so perhaps I'll find out what its all about.
Again cutting a long story short, I thought the cheap knock offs were not going to be the best, so looked for a decent entry level brush - it was going to be either the Neo or the H&S Ultra. I chose the Ultra as it had good reviews and was easy to clean.
I'm currently experimenting with paint - I want to do 'fine art' rather than T-Shirts etc. but made the wrong initial choice in buying Createx - just black and white (opaque and trans) and played about with reductions doing the beginner dots, lines, daggers etc. I've just purchased the Wicked detail basic primary set which arrived when I was in hospital. Now I've been out a few hours I'm going to have a play with them.
Enough of my rambling, it's good to be here.
Airbrushes: H&S Ultra, (BP-128P, BO212 - came with compressor)
Compressor: AS18-2
Paints: Createx, Wicked Detail