painting with airbrush

[jagman62]

Hi, just wondering where you guys do your airbrushing in the winter time.My garage is a bit cold & damp in the winter so I do my modelling on the dining room table,don't think my misses would be very happy with over spray on walls & cabinets.Also what colour matches the American armour of the fifties.

[billpe]

I use a large box my first Tamiya was delivered in, makes a nice large enclosed area to catch any paint that misses. I'm lucky enough to have an office/man cave which I can do it all in. The rug is testament to my messy use of a toothbrush and pigments.

Here's a pretty good article on the history of US army paints: http://www.militarymodelling.com/news/a ... drab/4536/. It's actually quite a complicated subject compared with the Soviet 4BO Green or German RAL 6003 Green.

[ALPHA]

Really depends on your airbrush Jag....Gravity feeds use very low pressure...so the over spray is minimal...but like Bill says..it's also quite easy to build a spray booth...
As far as paint goes...Testors makes the best olive for allied armor IMO that is

ALPHA

[PainlessWolf]

Good Morning,
Like many of us ( I suspect ) I watch How To videos on YouTube for tips and tricks on painting and electronics. One neat thing I saw from a fellow named QDC748a is how to turn an inexpensive plastic storage bin and a length of dryer vent into a very nice indoor paint booth. A battery powered fan pulls the fumes through the tubing that exits out a cracked open window. He has a plastic lazy susan sitting in the bin that he rotates his work on as he sprays. Very clever! He does mainly 1/35 scale stuff so folks who paint larger things like our tanks could scale up a bit but the principle is sound.
regards,
Painless

[MichaelC]

I use this for the smaller parts...... Can't really fit a 1/16 tank in there, but pieces for sure.

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[jackalope]

Big box or news papers on the kitchen counter/island. I use Tamiya paints with my airbrushes and they have no harsh fumes or smell so no one in the house has any problems with it.

[billpe]

I keep telling my girlfriend that but somehow she says she can smell Tamiya paints. I actually quite liked the smell of Mig AMMO Kursk Earth effects oddly. I don't think I'm meant to like it.

[dgsselkirk]

I built a clear plexiglass box and hook a shop vac to the back of it and use coffee filter over the nozzle and plug it into the back of the box where I cut a hole... Also have a lazy Susan inside the box to rotate the project however sometimes you have to do one 1/2 turn the model around and do the other 1/2 because of tank barrels being so long but Models like Sherman, KV-1, even Mk. IV no problem.

[jackalope]

I keep telling my girlfriend that but somehow she says she can smell Tamiya paints. I actually quite liked the smell of Mig AMMO Kursk Earth effects oddly. I don't think I'm meant to like it.

Tell her I said no she can't. Tamiya acrylic paints are water based with no harmful solvents which is why I use them cause we have 2 pet birds that if the paints were solvent based it would kill them.

Do you use a compressor or canned air?

[billpe]

They contain Isopropyl and glycol as well, but yeah, they're completely safe unless drunk I guess - not that I guess many have tried. I use a compressor. Must cost a fortune in cans to paint that way.