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Shobber
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Hi all,
What a great community here. And thanks to all involved for starting this great airbrushing resource; or dare I say cult!
I first came across the idea of airbrushing about 5 years ago when I was looking to get a better finish when painting model cars than that provided by Tamiya spray cans. The Tamiya cans tended to provide a textured finish. So I bought a Badger Anthem 155 which is probably overkill for the job, but I had had a bad experience with cheaper airbrushes; which I have since learnt was more than likely due to those awful low psi compressed air cans that model shops sell with airbrushes. Unfortunately soon after, circumstances resulted in a reduction in free time and I stopped making model cars and the Anthem got mothballed.
Around March this year some free time appeared I was able to pick up on some of my old projects. I had being trying to research how I could point my own livery onto Scalextric cars, including methods, suitable paint (paint that will survive the impact), etc. Increasingly my research kept drawing me toward airbrushing websites. The more I visited these sites, and the more I read, the more I begun to get an appreciation of how technical and wonderful this subject is. I started to develop an interest in airbrushing for it's own sake. Starting initially with an interest in illustration airbrushing I got hooked. Around April this year (2013) I started the usual dot, line, dagger stroke exercises and attempted by first artwork (a rose tutorial from an airbrushing book). To be honest I was quite pleased with it for a first attempt.
In July this year I attended a 3-day intro course run by Simon Murray from SM Designs (very nice Irish guy and top artist). He imparted a lot of airbrushing knowledge and insight, particularly into the automotive custom artwork side of the airbrushing business. Unfortunately since then free time has again become tight and I have been unable to push on and improve. Although I am still as keen as ever and think about airbrushing daily.
I first came across Airbrush Tutor back in April and have found it a great source of inspiration throughout my fledgling airbrushing journey. Again I thank Mitch for being a great virtual mentor. Looking forward to attempting some of his project tutorials as soon as time allows.
Cheers!
Shobber
What a great community here. And thanks to all involved for starting this great airbrushing resource; or dare I say cult!
I first came across the idea of airbrushing about 5 years ago when I was looking to get a better finish when painting model cars than that provided by Tamiya spray cans. The Tamiya cans tended to provide a textured finish. So I bought a Badger Anthem 155 which is probably overkill for the job, but I had had a bad experience with cheaper airbrushes; which I have since learnt was more than likely due to those awful low psi compressed air cans that model shops sell with airbrushes. Unfortunately soon after, circumstances resulted in a reduction in free time and I stopped making model cars and the Anthem got mothballed.
Around March this year some free time appeared I was able to pick up on some of my old projects. I had being trying to research how I could point my own livery onto Scalextric cars, including methods, suitable paint (paint that will survive the impact), etc. Increasingly my research kept drawing me toward airbrushing websites. The more I visited these sites, and the more I read, the more I begun to get an appreciation of how technical and wonderful this subject is. I started to develop an interest in airbrushing for it's own sake. Starting initially with an interest in illustration airbrushing I got hooked. Around April this year (2013) I started the usual dot, line, dagger stroke exercises and attempted by first artwork (a rose tutorial from an airbrushing book). To be honest I was quite pleased with it for a first attempt.
In July this year I attended a 3-day intro course run by Simon Murray from SM Designs (very nice Irish guy and top artist). He imparted a lot of airbrushing knowledge and insight, particularly into the automotive custom artwork side of the airbrushing business. Unfortunately since then free time has again become tight and I have been unable to push on and improve. Although I am still as keen as ever and think about airbrushing daily.
I first came across Airbrush Tutor back in April and have found it a great source of inspiration throughout my fledgling airbrushing journey. Again I thank Mitch for being a great virtual mentor. Looking forward to attempting some of his project tutorials as soon as time allows.
Cheers!
Shobber
