K*Paint - Airbrush Adventures

[G-Kenny]

Hi Everyone

A month or so ago I bought myself an Iwata Neo airbrush as I've always loved the idea of spraying my own shells.

For the past few weeks I have limited myself to doing one colour shells as I would like to get used to doing even coats and not rush into overly complex designs... but yesterday I made an attempt at my first custom paint job.

Overall im pretty pleased, im happy with my orange fading and the sharpness of SOME of my lines, I'm not happy with the black drop shadow on white. and the quality at times with my lines.

Any feedback/pointers/C&C is more than welcome....thanks

[Steve.T]

Nice choice of colours

[G-Kenny]

my second shell completed tonight, Took around 4-5 hours in total including masking ect.
Need to order more colours and get started on some TC shells

[julianb]

Tidy first attempts!

Don't be too hard on yourself, the accuracy with the scalpel and airbrush will come in time.

What is it particularly about the black drop shadow that you don't like? - I'm never keen on shading into white - it shows every trace of overspray and can look dirty. How about trying a colour that ties in with the overall scheme, rather than simply black. Less is more too!

Cheers

Joo

[G-Kenny]

Originally Posted by julianb

Tidy first attempts!

Don't be too hard on yourself, the accuracy with the scalpel and airbrush will come in time.

What is it particularly about the black drop shadow that you don't like? - I'm never keen on shading into white - it shows every trace of overspray and can look dirty. How about trying a colour that ties in with the overall scheme, rather than simply black. Less is more too!

Cheers

Joo

I was just not that happy with the consistency of the shadow and the shear amount of over spray, But black was not the best choice, I think I achieved a better shadow on the second shell.

What do you guys use for cleaning Alclad chrome from your brush? Createx cleaner and thinners did nothing to clean it out and took me a good 45mins to get it all out again.

[Supercoolnothing]

For cleaning up Alclad paints I use cellulose thinners the Alclad is lacquer based so you'll have to use a suitable thinner such as cellulose which will rip it from your brush in moments. Createx is water based (acrylic) so the thinner for that won't do anything really about lacquer based stuff.
Word of warning tho the stuff stinks so make sure you open up all the windows or if you can clean up outside even better.