Airbrush Practice

Here's a few pics of an Academy Stug IV that I've built OOB except for attempting zimmerit using putty. Here it is primered using grey vallejo surface primer and pre-shaded using tamiya NATO black, I think I may have gone a bit overboard with the preshading, though. I used 20 psi to spray both the primer & pre-shade, your comments and advice please!

Graeme

Sort of right start you dont have to be so dark, and you need to do edges as well and thinner lines i see if i can dig some pics out.

This is almost an art form in its own right ,but practice makes perfect and i know there will be some help on this soon in Mil Mod Mag.

Heres some pics of a panzer III i did a while ago.

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. As you can see not to dark and i have picked out the detail and shadow.

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Hope this helps

All is not lost as you can thin the black areas with white then mist over the lot with white to fade the black a bit.

Rgs Mac.

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Edited By Mac McConnell on 19/07/2012 09:44:52

Edited By Mac McConnell on 19/07/2012 09:46:54

Thanks Mac, I though I'd gone a bit too far, I'm going to do the preshade again, it looks obvious when compared with yours!

I'm going to try a few things out on this stug, then probably repaint it again to try something else.

I did the preshade again and gave it a coat tamiya xf60 dark yellow at 20 psi, the next step is to do a 3 colour camo pattern freehand with the airbrush, can anyone think of potential pitfalls when doing this? It might be a case of trying a couple of things and seeing what works best.

Can anyone see any glaring errors?

the wheel cover is missing from the car in the driveway....lol

seriously though... this is looking excellent , the re-done preshading is working well, just enough showing through to give a little bit of depth to the paintwork.

From an airbrush newbie, I think it looks great so far. Good luck with the camo. I've yet to attempt that. As for shading, I've been priming my models in black and then going light with the base color in the panels. Seems to work for me.

JB

Hi Graeme....

Im really no expert but i have done a tri colour camo job free hand with an airbrush......

It was a while back...but i remember that getting the paint consistency was key to get a good crisp edge for me. I know some like to mask with blue tac or tape but i went completely free hand.

I worked with the nozzle cap off and messed around with the pressure a bit until i could get the paint to flo without splattering or the air blowing the paint across the model.

hth

Rgds

Si

Here's a couple more pics with the camo done, the edges aren't as sharp as Si's, but the practice has been useful. A question though, were the schurtzen painted on the inside?

The next step will be weathering, can you use an airbrush to do the filters/washes? What colours do I use? I have a Lifecolor Tensocrom acrylic weathering set, a bit more experimenting is in the offing.

Hi Graeme....done a good job there buddy. Can't help with the filter business as I'm just getting to grips with that myself!

Si

Graeme

Looks very good to me, sir.

Cheers

Tim