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Graham
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Hello everyone.
My name is Graham, 56 from SE UK by the seaside!
I've been lurking here for a while now so I thought I would jump in and say hi.
A great little place you have here - congratulations!
Bit of a convoluted journey here.
Many years ago as a teenager I used to love building and painting Tamiya plastic model kits.
A few months ago I found an unopened 1/35 scale Tamiya Challenger tank in a charity shop for the princely sum of £2!
Needless to say I snapped it up and got to thinking about painting it before I'd even opened the box.
I remembered having an airbrush back in the dark ages of teendom (one of those horrible external mix revell things running on cans) which I seem to remember liking apart from the constant splattering.
After doing a lot of research I decided to ignore all the advice and went for an ebay chinese special (Veda 180) - I also managed to bag an old Senza compact 'silent' compressor (6ltr tank) from ebay for £25 which works great and is fairly quiet - useful as I live in a flat.
Anyhow, whilst waiting for the airbrush to arrive, I was scouring youtube for info on airbrushing models and dioramas etc when I stumbled across some illustrative airbrush artworks & tutorials which totally blew me away.
I thought I wanna do that!
After watching a load more I inevitably stumbled across Airbrush Tutors vids which are not only very informative but humorous - but of course you all know that - which led me here.
I tried my hand at the tutorials and exercises using the Veda and some Daler Rowney FW ink that I got from a local art store, and seemed to be able to reproduce what I was seeing (or thought I was seeing) which pleased me. Eventually I tried 'The Eye Tutorial' and frankly amazed myself.
It quickly became apparent that the Veda was ok but appeared to be inconsistent in performance and the spray pattern was erm... lumpy - not quite a circle.
So for Christmas I gifted myself an Iwata HPC plus along with 2 sets of Com-Art (opaque and trans) and a small roll of frisket.
A decent brush and proper paint has made a lot of difference to my confidence.
I'm still just practising my strokes a lot - trying to get my small light blends down and have messed around a bit trying to reproduce reference pics without really knowing what I'm doing but still manage to be fairly pleased with the results considering.
I've only used the trans black so far - I seem to be scared of the colours!
I'm feeling a leaning towards photo-realistic portrait work but will try anything.
So yeah, hello everyone
My name is Graham, 56 from SE UK by the seaside!
I've been lurking here for a while now so I thought I would jump in and say hi.
A great little place you have here - congratulations!
Bit of a convoluted journey here.
Many years ago as a teenager I used to love building and painting Tamiya plastic model kits.
A few months ago I found an unopened 1/35 scale Tamiya Challenger tank in a charity shop for the princely sum of £2!
Needless to say I snapped it up and got to thinking about painting it before I'd even opened the box.
I remembered having an airbrush back in the dark ages of teendom (one of those horrible external mix revell things running on cans) which I seem to remember liking apart from the constant splattering.
After doing a lot of research I decided to ignore all the advice and went for an ebay chinese special (Veda 180) - I also managed to bag an old Senza compact 'silent' compressor (6ltr tank) from ebay for £25 which works great and is fairly quiet - useful as I live in a flat.
Anyhow, whilst waiting for the airbrush to arrive, I was scouring youtube for info on airbrushing models and dioramas etc when I stumbled across some illustrative airbrush artworks & tutorials which totally blew me away.
I thought I wanna do that!
After watching a load more I inevitably stumbled across Airbrush Tutors vids which are not only very informative but humorous - but of course you all know that - which led me here.
I tried my hand at the tutorials and exercises using the Veda and some Daler Rowney FW ink that I got from a local art store, and seemed to be able to reproduce what I was seeing (or thought I was seeing) which pleased me. Eventually I tried 'The Eye Tutorial' and frankly amazed myself.
It quickly became apparent that the Veda was ok but appeared to be inconsistent in performance and the spray pattern was erm... lumpy - not quite a circle.
So for Christmas I gifted myself an Iwata HPC plus along with 2 sets of Com-Art (opaque and trans) and a small roll of frisket.
A decent brush and proper paint has made a lot of difference to my confidence.
I'm still just practising my strokes a lot - trying to get my small light blends down and have messed around a bit trying to reproduce reference pics without really knowing what I'm doing but still manage to be fairly pleased with the results considering.
I've only used the trans black so far - I seem to be scared of the colours!
I'm feeling a leaning towards photo-realistic portrait work but will try anything.
So yeah, hello everyone