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Oh goodness, I think I found it. I ended up striping a corvette body twice this week, but I've finally gotten to the point where I can lay a nice super smooth layer of paint down, and man does it look good!! Seems that part of my problem was me by trying to put the paint on to thick and to quick. An...

You know, that thought crossed my mind with this one. I've never had a compressor before (minus the above mentioned one that bit the dust) and didn't know if that would be bad for the compressor as I figured that the motor was more designed to run for shorter periods of time at more frequent interva...

Put the lid on, seal everything with tape/caulk/Aves, and connect to spraybooth. Enjoy! Dan So is there not a need to replace the filter media once in a while? I would think that the furnace filters would last a really long time, but the charcoal would be absorbing things from the air even when the...

Thanks, I was really wondering about that. I'm not having much luck in dealing with Harbor Freight on this, they tell me to take to the retail store I bought it from, which would be a 7+ hour round trip drive for me. Gas as high as it is, it would be rather cost prohibitive for this me thinks, not t...

I bought this airbrush compressor a few days before Christmas, and I knew that I wasn't getting a great compressor, but I honestly thought that it would last longer than this. I finally got brave enough to use my Paasche AB yesterday and after a while, I thought that there was something wrong with t...

I'm a huge fan of a CO2 tank instead of a compressor. The air is dryer and I typiccally get 20-24 hours of spray time out of each tank (that's a lot of airbrush time). Cheers, Mark I've read a little about this. I've got a 5lbs. tank that I used to have running on one of my aquariums that I'm not c...

I'm sure that part of my problem with dust and other particles is that I'm airbrushing in the garage, which has all sorts of unidentifiable stuff floating around I'm sure in addition to the normal house dust/cat hair. I don't fore see myself doing a whole lot of brushing, but a spraybooth that I cou...

AhHa, so if I were to paint over with some model acrylic paints, then I might not get *quite* as good results with the different layers blending in together. Either way, I see what your saying. It's not just the paint or the Future, but the Airbrushing that really allowed the blending to occur so we...

Outstanding, Thank you. This gives me some time to learn the ropes a bit better and stash away for a better compressor.

So in my hurry to get to my first model, I probably airbrushed before I was really ready on a model. And while the paint was cured, back on the bench I gathered several good scratches and gouges in the acrylic paint. I was worried that when I went back over it with additional layers, it would be une...

Not trying to hijack the post... I've got one very similar to the one in the link from harbor freight. I've not noticed any pulsing or problems with it, BUT, I've also just starting airbrushing so right now I'm pretty much just figuring out how to control the airbrush and not the lines at the moment...

I looked locally for plain old Future, but all I could find was the Pledge braded stuff. I was a little hesitant at first, but after I saw the photo of the bottle on swanny's site, the one I have is identical except for the GIANT Pledge logo blasted on the front, with the smaller Future logo under i...

Ahh, I hadn't thought about boxing it up while it dried. The simple things always seem to elude me. I was running a few oz of Windex though the brush between coats as I let it dry to clean it out. Seemed to work well for now at least, as I did get any splatters or inconsistencies (from the brush any...

:twisted: I sat down yesterday for my first real session of airbrushing. I loved every second. I bought a small car kit to assemble to practice with all around, including airbrushing and so far I don't think I've managed to really screw anything up very bad. I'd like to say what I did, what I discov...

Thanks for that! That answered a lot of questions I had on cleaning, and general airbrushing as well. Looks like I do need to find me a junker kit to practice on and test paints with. Excellent article.

Are you kidding, if road construction ever got finished in the state of KY, Earth world would fall off it's axis. No sooner so they finish in one place, they start somewhere else. It's nice to see people from around here in the hobby. I'm actually a little further away from you though robiwon, about...

Cats Represent! :D Thanks for the tips on what to clean with. Not sure if we've got the real deal windex or not, but next time we go to the store I'll be sure to get some with ammonia in it. Yes, I'll be getting to the Hobbytown in Lexington as soon as Christmas is over. I'm not a big fan on the tra...

Sorry for the delay, life gets in the way of the fun stuff at times :8) I got the Paasche VL from the local store. Not had a chance to try it out yet, just picked up a compressor today. I found what looked like a knock off of the Badger 150 at the Harbor Freight Tools store for $15, so I picked it u...

Thanks for the information guys! Every bit helps a ton. I didn't really see a reason why paint couldn't be shipped, it was just a matter of me looking in the right place. And thanks for the brushes as well. I'm happy to say I was wrong when I said that I didn't have any local hobby stores, as I actu...

Well, not just new at airbrush's, I'm new at just about everything as far as real modeling is concerned. Sure I threw together some when I was a kid, and thats how they turned out, looked like someone threw them together. I've been reading various websites for a while now, and I've got most of the b...