Showing posts with label base coat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label base coat. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 November 2012

First Airbrush Experience

Well that was an experience...

As I mentioned in my previous post I recently purchased an airbrush which came allot quicker than I had expected :)

And these are my first 3 base coated models.

All 3 started with a black base coat the 2 on the right have had 3 different shades of grey dark, original and a light highlight,

This is pretty hard to tell from the quality of the picture but also I haven't had the pleasure of mixing the tones before so It was hard to judge the difference with each one,  from this experience I learned that my undercoat needs to be a few shades darker as its not as easy to differentiate the regular and darker tone as I would like but I'll take a note of this next time I get the airbrush out :)


Also learned from hand on experience the correct paint to thinner ration,  It's easy to say 1:1 ratio when its on a video or down in writing but actually doing something that sounds so simple even that needs a little practice.

Overall verdict is very positive, the initial black coat went on and looked brilliant.
The grey coats though not perfect are smoother than painting them and with a little practice the future looks positive :)

Below is just a short video of my first experience with the airbrush, there is no talking init but thought I would record it anyways but will be narrating videos in the future.


Friday, 16 November 2012

Compressor and First Airbrush


This is just a heads up to a couple of future post’s I will be making soon.
I decided to buy myself an airbrush and compressor.for 3 part base coating.
By that I mean creating an initial darker layer for the shadowed areas, the main colour for my themed army and finally a hilghted area but more on that when it arrives and when I have had a little practice with it.

I will not be using the airbrush for all my posts as I feel it will steer away a lot of people with out one but videos, tips tutorials and updates on what I’m learning will definitely make an appearance soon here.
I opted for the
AS186 AS 186 with Compressor with Tank with 2 x Double Action Airbrushes.

I chose this mainly for the affordable air compressor and the Airbrushes are a nice little bonus, as I don’t plan on doing a lot of detail work with the airbrushes I found it would be pointless to fork out 1/200 on an all singing all dancing airbrush but in the future who knows :)
Anyway that was my quick update on things to come



Dan