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Madbrush
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A lot of the longer term members will remember that I bought myself a Harder & Steenbeck Evolution silverline 2 in 1 with 0.2 nozzle (fitted) and 0.4 nozzle in the case, which I was totally in love with until I attempted to use it, then it all went pair shaped, I tried it with the 0.4 nozzle and even that did nothing.
A short time ago I noticed that Bad65 used the evolution on one of his paintings, I asked at the time what paint he used and what ratios, he kindly informed that he used Schminke aerocolor and thinned 20:1, I promptly tried that and still got nothing.
However, today because there was only kiddie stuff on telly and because I was jealous of Seamonkey's present of a full set of Badgers and basically anyone else who got a new airbrush for Christmas, I decided to give it one last try before I sell it to someone I really hate for a song.
Here's what I did, I first mixed a magic potion of Schminke black and other colours to make a sepia colour, I then added water to get a 25:1 mix, I then added 5 drops of wicked reducer, only because I had it.
I then turned my compressor on and turned the knob to 10 psi (8 at the brush) and set about some serious practice doing lines, dots, daggers and all kinds of lovely shapes and to my absolute amazement the evolution performed outstandingly, all the previous problems I had are now history and I can finally get down to some serious airbrushing (since it's rotten weather for flying) I plan to paint something with lots of fur, I haven't decided yet what, but it will most likely be my sister in law whom I can only describe as looking like cousin IT with warts.
And one last revelation, for anyone who isn't sure about Schminke aerocolor, you will be totally blown away, you will be stunned, you will be gob-smacked and you just will not believe how well it covers with this amount of thinning, and it loses none of it's properties.
A short time ago I noticed that Bad65 used the evolution on one of his paintings, I asked at the time what paint he used and what ratios, he kindly informed that he used Schminke aerocolor and thinned 20:1, I promptly tried that and still got nothing.
However, today because there was only kiddie stuff on telly and because I was jealous of Seamonkey's present of a full set of Badgers and basically anyone else who got a new airbrush for Christmas, I decided to give it one last try before I sell it to someone I really hate for a song.
Here's what I did, I first mixed a magic potion of Schminke black and other colours to make a sepia colour, I then added water to get a 25:1 mix, I then added 5 drops of wicked reducer, only because I had it.
I then turned my compressor on and turned the knob to 10 psi (8 at the brush) and set about some serious practice doing lines, dots, daggers and all kinds of lovely shapes and to my absolute amazement the evolution performed outstandingly, all the previous problems I had are now history and I can finally get down to some serious airbrushing (since it's rotten weather for flying) I plan to paint something with lots of fur, I haven't decided yet what, but it will most likely be my sister in law whom I can only describe as looking like cousin IT with warts.
And one last revelation, for anyone who isn't sure about Schminke aerocolor, you will be totally blown away, you will be stunned, you will be gob-smacked and you just will not believe how well it covers with this amount of thinning, and it loses none of it's properties.