Airbrush Chart- For my own sanity

[slowlylearning]

Found this, I'll keep it here for safe-keeping I love things like this, I'll have to print it out or something and hang it next to my spray-booth.

[Luke]

Pic aint working for me mate

[Jiminee]

I see it, I need to print it and post it on my model desk! Thanks.

[Luke]

On the laptop I can see.


I always start/test on spoons first before going near any model parts.

[B61 MACK]

Ya I always test on flat surface first to make sure paint is thin right, Also my little compressor the PSI ranges from 19 to 35 were it cuts out at 35, most the time it sits around 20 to 25, It has a small tank but the air drops fast while airbrushing, One thing with it to the air pulsates and it can be a pain in the butt as the air drops, To lazy to drag the large compressor outside which is a 2hp/21L.
Also I use a single action airbrush got two cheap double action ones but have trouble using them.

[B61 MACK]

Oh if you don't thin the paint right you get what is called spider web at the nozzle.

[slowlylearning]

Been doin' some Youchoobing and came across a Vallejo video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNU55qMSRP0), there's some good info for noobs like me in there. The Vallejo Model Air paints arrived today which I ordered. 16 little bottles in a set (plus an acrylic plastic paint stand thing which is incredibly brittle! Didn't even bother to take the tape off of it If youre gonna get a paint stand get a wooden one!), pretty excited to use em but I'll wait until I've got some Vallejo branded thinner and flow improver/retarder. Got a big ol' bottle of Mr Model Self Leveling Thinner to use with Tamiya paints in the mean time though!

[Luke]

What Vallejo set did you get mate ??
Be interested to hear and see what you think of them ??

[B61 MACK]

Be very carefull of using Vallejo model air in you airbrush, they say its airbrush ready in a pigs butt it is I used it and give gummed up my airbrush took me two hours to unblock it and clean the airbrush, It went like toffee. I have used there other brand of colours and had no trouble with them, Also they dry very flat even the gloss drys semi gloss, Also be carefull handling parts once paint as paint will mark very easy they take about a week to fully dry hard then they can still mark.

[slowlylearning]

What Vallejo set did you get mate ??
Be interested to hear and see what you think of them ??

I got the Construction Building Set because there were a few brighter colours, I would have got some Model Game Air since the colour range for those is way more suited to cars (brighter colours, less war-related colours) but BNA doesn't have those in sets. Apparently Vallejo colours brush paint like magic so I'm excited to try that, might build an engine!

I hear you Albo, most of the older reviews and forum posts I've seen have been of people having troubles with Vallejo Air, even that Vallejo video link I posted the subtitles say "ready to spray", quotation marks and all I think I read somewhere that over the last few years the Vallejo people have improved the formula somewhat but yeah I don't think there'll ever be an 'airbrush ready' paint that doesn't eed flow improver/thinner/retarder added in the cup.

I'll let you guys know when I've used it, might even do a video on em I don't want to use the Mr Colour thinner with em since it's laquer based thinner and Model Air is water based as far as I can tell.