Well I do believe I'm more or less ready to actually get to paint something now, I spent the day yesterday searching of some items I didn't yet have, mainly a water bottle, spray out jar and an airbrush stand, I found the jar which is basically a jam jar I bought empty for one pound ninety five (sorry can't find the pound sign on my pc), I should have just bought effing the jam and cleaned the jar since a jar of ready made jam was only a pound too late now, obviously they will give you the same jar for a pound less if you just let them manky it up with disgusting apricot jam I'm actually rolling around with laughter here right now because I can't believe what I've just done, I know for sure if my sister in law finds out she'll give me a dead shoulder then tell me she would have given me one of hers when it was empty, I really am a tit.
Also managed to find a squeeze bottle for clean water, no big story there thank God
Now I just had to find some way to claw back some of the pound I wasted on the bastard jam jar, having never missed an episode ever of Blue Peter I can be pretty inventive when the need arises, so I had a good rummage around the house and came up with this;
I'm quite chuffed with this, as you can see it's just pieces of old MDF, one piece of 9 mm MDF for the top with a whole drilled by mean of a 3/4" fast cutter drill bit, the thing that looks like a bolt under the brush is actually the top part of my pistol grip moisture trap it fits in there perfectly snug with no movement, the sides of the stand are just scrap pieces of 2.5 mm MDF, it's all held together with fast drying epoxy glue, I might (but probably won't) paint it
Now I'm all set and good to go, just need to choose what to paint now, I had my mind set on a tiger but it seems to be tiger season right now and a few are doing them so I'll have to have look for something else methinks.
Also managed to find a squeeze bottle for clean water, no big story there thank God
Now I just had to find some way to claw back some of the pound I wasted on the bastard jam jar, having never missed an episode ever of Blue Peter I can be pretty inventive when the need arises, so I had a good rummage around the house and came up with this;
I'm quite chuffed with this, as you can see it's just pieces of old MDF, one piece of 9 mm MDF for the top with a whole drilled by mean of a 3/4" fast cutter drill bit, the thing that looks like a bolt under the brush is actually the top part of my pistol grip moisture trap it fits in there perfectly snug with no movement, the sides of the stand are just scrap pieces of 2.5 mm MDF, it's all held together with fast drying epoxy glue, I might (but probably won't) paint it
Now I'm all set and good to go, just need to choose what to paint now, I had my mind set on a tiger but it seems to be tiger season right now and a few are doing them so I'll have to have look for something else methinks.