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Hello everyone! So I finally worked up the guys to start trying out this whole airbrushing thing properly, practising some dots and lines based on the tutorial videos and generally just messing about for the hell of it. I obviously still need a lot of practice, especially with starting and stopping my lines!
But my main question atm is about the paint - I'm getting a lot of "spatter" around the outside of where the paint's supposed to be going. Here's a closer look at a section to better show what I mean:
I'm not sure what's causing it, whether it's just meant to happen, or if it's the paint consistency, or because I hadn't cleaned my airbrush properly (this is the second time I've used the airbrush), or some other reason. I was also getting a fair bit of spidering (I think that's the term?) on the larger dots if I pulled the trigger back further for more paint.
I was also finding the paint drying very quickly on the needle tip, and I had to keep cleaning it off before the paint would come out smoothly again.
I'm using an Iwata HP-CS Eclipse airbrush and AK Interactive Black Surface Primer (and a bit of the same brand of white primer while I was undercoating some miniatures afterwards). I tried thinning the primer with some Tamiya thinner, but it didn't seem to help any.
Any tips or suggestions? Thanks in advance!
But my main question atm is about the paint - I'm getting a lot of "spatter" around the outside of where the paint's supposed to be going. Here's a closer look at a section to better show what I mean:
I'm not sure what's causing it, whether it's just meant to happen, or if it's the paint consistency, or because I hadn't cleaned my airbrush properly (this is the second time I've used the airbrush), or some other reason. I was also getting a fair bit of spidering (I think that's the term?) on the larger dots if I pulled the trigger back further for more paint.
I was also finding the paint drying very quickly on the needle tip, and I had to keep cleaning it off before the paint would come out smoothly again.
I'm using an Iwata HP-CS Eclipse airbrush and AK Interactive Black Surface Primer (and a bit of the same brand of white primer while I was undercoating some miniatures afterwards). I tried thinning the primer with some Tamiya thinner, but it didn't seem to help any.
Any tips or suggestions? Thanks in advance!