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I've put it off long enough. Amazon got me finally.





Went with the Timbertech compressor with tank. Well rated inexpensive compressor.

Chose the Gaahleri GHAD39 airbrush kit including .3 and .5 needles. Another well rated inexpensive item.

Made a decent order of paints and other supplies as well.

So now we move on to a new page.

I'll be seeking advice and help soon enough chaps

Finally!

You will enjoy it.

Mike.

Over time, there will be one that can use a 0.8 nozzle for large parts, since painting 0.5 mm takes me a long time....
And I work with Bismarck, Iowa and the newly purchased Merkava 4.....

Congrats. Guess that leaves me as one of the few rattle canners left. Tamiya can no longer export their spray bombs to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Kanuckistan due to a government prohibition on some ingredient in them. But if I do any more tanks they will be allied or Cold War so I can use Vallejo for them

OUTSTANDING

'Bout time, but now you will get the full effect in Dolby Hi-Fi when you paint something

Panzermechaniker wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 9:03 am Congrats. Guess that leaves me as one of the few rattle canners left. Tamiya can no longer export their spray bombs to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Kanuckistan due to a government prohibition on some ingredient in them. But if I do any more tanks they will be allied or Cold War so I can use Vallejo for them

My son works as a Tamiya dealer in Russia..
They sell out goods from the warehouse, now anyone who wants can buy Tamiya paints on different marketplaces, and without a dealer....
But I always paint with car paint "base"....
I use paint "from the can" for spot details, lights, faces of figures....
When I started, branded paints were unavailable in the USSR, so nitro paint solved ALL the problems. I would have continued to paint with it, but over the years the smell has become annoying, and it is inconvenient to paint in a "muzzle"...

I hadn't heard that Tamiya acrylics were no longer being sold in the Canadian market. Bummer.

Mike.

ColemanCollector wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 6:02 pm I hadn't heard that Tamiya acrylics were no longer being sold in the Canadian market. Bummer.

Mike.

I'd heard it was the rattle cans that were the problem, due to precense of the solvent Ethylene Glycol Mono-N-butyl Ether (which is not great for your health).

Somebody will find something less toxic as an alternative, and life will go on...

Excellent!

I will look up the Gaahleri GHAD39 airbrush kit on Amazon. I have never heard of it. I have had no fewer than five airbrushes over the past fifty years. You will likely have questions and probably frustrations, but given you choice to get a compressor right away, quick-release fittings, exchangeable needles and cups, you seem to be well set.

P.S.: Everyone will tell you to thin paint to the consistency of 2% milk or so the a droplet runs down the clean side of the mixing bottle like 2% milk. Let me know if you ever figure out the consistency or how 2% milk runs. After five air-brushes and over fifty years, it's still a mystery to me. I use the method of a different ratio of mix for the brand and type of paint (found by trial and error); then I try spraying on cardboard, fiddle with pressure setting, nozzle setting, try again, wince and go for it.