Andy's £10 airbrush adventures.

[Oscar]

Nice work chief,
Also glad its a 26 Pedrosa, one more and you'd be in to 27 Casy Moaner territorty, (deffo best avoided!!)

[andys]

Originally Posted by Oscar

Nice work chief,
Also glad its a 26 Pedrosa, one more and you'd be in to 27 Casy Moaner territorty, (deffo best avoided!!)

Lol !
We both know that means absolutely nothing to me

[jonmiller]

nice

[andys]

A snap taken this morning - with a bit of daylight so you can see the red / orange contrast a bit better

[andys]

Originally Posted by coleman758

Fantastic!

( I'm gonna have to invest in a cutter )

You know a cutter makes sense

I'm used to using it now - but what I would say is that using liquid mask is much easier and safer if you can create the design you want using it. With liquid mask you only uncover the area you are immediately going to paint - so the rest of the shell remains safely masked at all times.

With Vinyl - it's kind of the opposite. I mask the areas i'm not going to paint, and leave the majority of the shell unmasked to add the base colour. This is tricky when the base colour is light, as I have to add darker colours afterwards ! Not ideal.

It's swings and roundabouts - if vinyl went around corners easier, it would be ace, but you really need to keep to flat parts of the shell - with liquid mask you can create whatever shapes you want.

With a couple of shells, i've designed them on the computer, then printed them on paper, and used that as a stencil to draw onto the shell, then cut out the liquid mask. This works well for me and as long as I keep a steady hand it's the best of both worlds. Then add the odd vinyl mask into (unmasked) areas after removing the liquid mask.

Takes a bit of planning !

The last thing - it the vinyl route takes MUCH longer than drawing and cutting a design using liquid mask. It takes me about a day to sort out everything, from computer - to cutting / applying masks etc, as opposed to a few hours to go liquid mask route.

Food for thought - hope it helps

[SHY]

Impressive work!

Totally buy those arguments as to liquid mask vs. plotter! One downside with cutting is of course that you weaken the shell, so apply VERY gentle pressure on the X-acto knife!

Anyways the liquid mask is 100x better than masking tape! Was a big big improvement for me!

I always use some sort of felt pen (Overhead pen for instance) to draw freehand on the outside, wipe off with alcohol... until I'm happy with the design. Then cut out from the inside following the outside lines.

Andy, what do you use for that "honeycomb" pattern? Is it sticky or something you just lay down on the shell? Looks very nice & tidy! I've used those anti-skid mats for dashboards before, but get a wee bit of bleed, so not 100% happy with those...

Keep up the fantastic work!

[andys]

Hi Shy

Cheers for the comments
All the honeycomb stuff / dots etc are again vinyl cut masks .

Andy

[SHY]

Thx, can I buy it somewhere online? (pre-cut)

[andys]

I know RCS sell some masks - and if you search ebay for airbrush mask - you can buy some plastic ones that can be washed / re used.

The ones I cut - as they are vinyl have to be thrown away after use as they loose their stickyness after being used / removed etc.

[AndyG]

like that one particularly Andy - nice work fella

Finished Mr Kirk's shell last night, but can't post it up, cos flickr is blocked at work . Managed to use your vinyl and liquid mask together, and really pleased with the outcome, albeit on a really simple clean design request.

Andy

[andys]

Sounds good Andy - can you e-mail me a piccy ?

if not get some images posted up when you get home

[AndyG]

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[Chequered Flag Racing]

Originally Posted by AndyG

like that one particularly Andy - nice work fella

Finished Mr Kirk's shell last night, but can't post it up, cos flickr is blocked at work . Managed to use your vinyl and liquid mask together, and really pleased with the outcome, albeit on a really simple clean design request.

Andy

Would it be this one?

[AndyG]

yep - that's it.

Vinyls kindly provided by Mr Shilly.

Some ofo the other photos on the feed show how I mixed vinyl and LM, and also show the order in which the paint was applied to allow me to spray darker colours first.

[andys]

Andy - I had a look through the pictures on Flicker - fantastic

You need to post those 'walkthrough' images onto the forum. Looks like you tried what we were talking about on Sunday - and it's worked a treat

Pretty fiddly though - and I bet it was nerve wracking hoping it would all work out as planned !

You have vinyl - liquid mask & masking trim line going on with that shell - awesome.

Good going though captain - I might try the vinyl / liquid mask technique myself.

[AndyG]

wasn't tricky AT ALL Andy.

You paint up to the edge of the vinyl waste with the LM, then when you lift the vinyl, and pull towards the transition (to LM), it lifts the LM in a single piece - super easy.

Ignore the trim line tape. I placed that on the outside as a cutting aid for the eye, and that really work too - gave me some nice parallel lines. I've tried it on the inside before, mixed with LM and the results weren't good - the LM got under the tape at the folds in the shell.

I'll post up a step by step in my thread later - thought it was worth a mention in here though as this is where all the vinyl talk is at , and it gives you some deserved credit too.

[steveproracing]

I'm well happy with the results. Props to mr g on the spray jobs.
Hadn't realised just how pioneering your technique was!!
Thumbs up buddy
Thank you!!

[andys]

It's all happening here Steve

[andys]

Another Durango V3 for 'Binsey'

Brief was Orange, Blue & White - then 'do what you want'

Hope you like it Binsey.

[andys]

Last one for today - A 210 Shell for Avo - in the style of the other 2 I did for him recently.