China Ink?

[nissaba]

Hi I am new here and new to airbrushing, I have been looking on this site and on Google for information on China ink use for airbrush.

I tried it, it did work nice at first but at some point the needle started to jam in the airbrush, I had to give a good pull to get it unjammed.

I was hoping that some one on here as used China ink before and get me a few pointers on using with out getting jams and breaking my airbrush.

I am using a veda dw180 airbrush with a 0.3 needle.

I bought some flow-aid I will see if this helps any bit with my problem and will come back later and post about it.

 

[ulltraz]

first my friend use the introduction section so we can know you and greet you accordingly, as you deserve.when istarted i used almost every kind of paint that you can imagine,so i have some knowledge upon uncommon paints.

first i need to know what kind of ink you are using,because i can tell you what the problem is,and by jamming you mean that the needle doesn´t move and staysin a determined position,right?well if that is the problem all you need to do is to stop every while to clean it.that is because of a thing called "dry tip".what happens is that the ink dries at the tip and needle and solifies and then prevents the movement of the needle.thats your problem?

most people use different forms of dealing with this problem,some people starts to "feel"that something is wrong and stops and cleans the tip,this is from experience.but some others only when they start to have problems,si when they stop.

as i said everyone here apparently has a different way of solving this problem,like mine,since i use waterbased paints all use is an old make up brush dip it in water and passit by the tiap and needle to clean it.and problem solve.

any ink should do the job,no matter what,but there are some inks that can be used precisely for this purpose,like windsor and newton liquid acrylic colour.all you have to to is thinn or reduce the ink ina relation of 3 to 1 or 4 to 1,water-paint ratio,so you can be in bussiness.

go to introduction section,so you can be part of the family.

hope this helps!!!i´ll be watching this thread to see your respoce if this is what you wanted!!!

 

[ad fez]

yer i have just bought some of the liquitex titanium white ink.... it is an acrylic based ink also, it does require a little thinning, so i just used a bit of the createx wicked reducer which seemed to work well,..... the ink flowed really nicely, probably better than any paint i have used including createx illustration, however it did tip dry quite a bit, maybe even more so than wicked detail paint......

nissaba, i think ultraz has got you covered with his post, just get an old paint brush or something just to gently wipe the end of the needle and moisten it up every now and then

 

[nissaba]

first my friend use the introduction section so we can know you and greet you accordingly, as you deserve.when istarted i used almost every kind of paint that you can imagine,so i have some knowledge upon uncommon paints.

first i need to know what kind of ink you are using,because i can tell you what the problem is,and by jamming you mean that the needle doesn´t move and staysin a determined position,right?well if that is the problem all you need to do is to stop every while to clean it.that is because of a thing called "dry tip".what happens is that the ink dries at the tip and needle and solifies and then prevents the movement of the needle.thats your problem?

most people use different forms of dealing with this problem,some people starts to "feel"that something is wrong and stops and cleans the tip,this is from experience.but some others only when they start to have problems,si when they stop.

as i said everyone here apparently has a different way of solving this problem,like mine,since i use waterbased paints all use is an old make up brush dip it in water and passit by the tiap and needle to clean it.and problem solve.

any ink should do the job,no matter what,but there are some inks that can be used precisely for this purpose,like windsor and newton liquid acrylic colour.all you have to to is thinn or reduce the ink ina relation of 3 to 1 or 4 to 1,water-paint ratio,so you can be in bussiness.

go to introduction section,so you can be part of the family.

hope this helps!!!i´ll be watching this thread to see your respoce if this is what you wanted!!!

hi thanks for the answer, as for the ink its your run of the mill china ink(india ink) used in pens, but to be specific Dernco (India ink / Encre de Chine) and its waterproof once its dried, its the ink I use to ink my attempts at drawing manga characters I love.

yes its does not move at all had to give a good pull on it to unjam it (after removing the chuck freeing the needle).

and my formal introduction as been made cheers thanks for the info.

 

[Tigertron]

I've used the India inks and find they are not that good through the airbrush for the reasons you state. They dry fast in the brush. Unless you really want that ink I would try a more airbrush friendly paint. It will be eaisier to clean your brush.

 

[nissaba]

I've used the India inks and find they are not that good through the airbrush for the reasons you state. They dry fast in the brush. Unless you really want that ink I would try a more airbrush friendly paint. It will be eaisier to clean your brush.

this morning I went to my "local" art supply store (the closest one) that had airbrush supplies and got the starter kit from createx (transparent yellow, green, blue, red and opaque black and white).

 

[WhiteKnight]

You will probably need to reduce them (add water or reducer) so they flow properly through the airbrush