New airbrush, may need some advice.

Magickalhack · Jul 20, 2019

So, I posted here is the newbies board about a cheap airbrush setup that I was planning on getting, well the stars aligned, yadda yadda yadda. The meat and potatoes of the post, is that I know that this is essentially a knockoff iwata, and may take some tweaking to get it to where I need. I haven't really played with it much due to needing a hose adapter for my new compressor from 1/4 to 1/8 and the hose supplied with the brush sucks ass.

I feel I should mention that it is a .2mm Nozzle.

I am mainly going to be painting miniatures and terrain.

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JackEb · Jul 20, 2019

Generics are hit and miss but will give you a feel for airbrushing, teach you how to break it down and clean it if needed without fear of ruining a ‘good’ brush.
.2 will limit the types of paint (no metallics or pearls) but you should be able to get started with it

Magickalhack · Jul 20, 2019

JackEb said:
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.2 will limit the types of paint (no metallics or pearls) but you should be able to get started with it

Now, do you happen to have any experience with the gw air paints? I have heard from others that there should be no issue with them.

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jord001 · Jul 20, 2019

I assume you mean Games Workshop Air. They are apparently airbrush ready so in theory you should be good to go, however I've used other 'airbrush ready' paints before and on occasion they still need some thinning to get them to spray right. There might be someone on the forum who has some experience with them and will have a good starting suggestion for you. It will probably be a bit of experiment and practice to get them to work for you in your particular setup but you can do it. It's all part of the learning curve, learning your paints and your airbrush. We have all done it and has to be done with every paint system you use.

Lee

DaveG · Jul 20, 2019

These are all knock offs, and most work well enough to consider using any day of the week. They are for sure hit or miss out of the box. I tend not to recommend them for newbies, only to avoid any potential hindrance in the normal airbrush learning curve - but, would never rule them out altogether.

If you remove the crown cap from the front of the brush, and look at the opening of the nozzle cap, if the nozzle looks like it is centered in the opening, you have made it past a good many of the potential hurdles in making sure the brush operates as it should. If you then look at the brush from the side, you can see the very tip of the nozzle protruding from the cap, you should be in pretty good shape.

I don't care what brand of paint you are planning on using, you will more than likely need some sort of reduction. While some things are fairly consistent in airbrushing, paint and reduction are things that only live in ballpark terms. No two people will have identical experiences here... you will need to experiment, and find what works for you. We can give suggestions that may get you close, but the final formula is gonna be all your own

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Magickalhack · Jul 20, 2019

DaveG said:
These are all knock offs, and most work well enough to consider using any day of the week. They are for sure hit or miss out of the box. I tend not to recommend them for newbies, only to avoid any potential hindrance in the normal airbrush learning curve - but, would never rule them out altogether.

If you remove the crown cap from the front of the brush, and look at the opening of the nozzle cap, if the nozzle looks like it is centered in the opening, you have made it past a good many of the potential hurdles in making sure the brush operates as it should. If you then look at the brush from the side, you can see the very tip of the nozzle protruding from the cap, you should be in pretty good shape.

I don't care what brand of paint you are planning on using, you will more than likely need some sort of reduction. While some things are fairly consistent in airbrushing, paint and reduction are things that only live in ballpark terms. No two people will have identical experiences here... you will need to experiment, and find what works for you. We can give suggestions that may get you close, but the final formula is gonna be all your own .

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Yeah, this is what I was figuring. I have my line issues figured out, apparently I had the adapter I needed right from the start. I am going to be doing some testing tonight, but going through the checklist, all of those points are checked.

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Chris the Cabbie · Jul 27, 2019

Magickalhack said:
Yeah, this is what I was figuring. I have my line issues figured out, apparently I had the adapter I needed right from the start. I am going to be doing some testing tonight, but going through the checklist, all of those points are checked.
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As a fellow modeller, I would suggest using Tamiya acrylic paints as they have some nice high chroma colors for the figures and great colors for terrain work. If you are at a loss on what to use as a thinner, rest assured the finest thinner is acetone! It will even allow you to spray the gloss colors like enamel gloss and will allow a perfect high gloss for a car body. Most people have been stumped for decades on how to use the gloss colors without getting orange peel finishes.
I found all this out in the nineties when running my studio as I worked full time and came across this neat tip.
Hope that helps.
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