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Arron
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Hi. Firstly my apologies if this has already been covered - I did a search but no result - maybe the question is just too basic.
Anyway, my problem is that I have bought a couple of gravity feed airbrushes but now I'm thinking that they don't really suit my requirements. The problem is that I need to spray small quantities of different colours - alternating. This means I'm continually cleaning out the airbrush cup, mixing up new colours and transferring. This isn't good because there is a lot of handling time, paint wastage, and the colours are not repeatable like I'd like them to be. I noticed today that in an hour long session I only did three minutes of actual spraying - the rest is cleaning, frigging and colour mixing time. It doesn't help that I'm not much good at colour mixing either.
So I'm thinking maybe I should buy a gravity feed airbrush, and a lot of spare bottles - the ones which attach straight to the airbrush. That way I could fill each bottle up with colour, either straight white or black or the mixes which I use, and just snap the bottles on or off as I need them. The mixed paint would be stored in the bottles, with a drop or two of thinner added each time I open them.
I'd probably buy a siphon feed airbrush and a dozen or so of the bottles - maybe ones with the little suction tube in, or maybe ones with a plain lid to be able to seal them up 100%.
I'll keep the current gravity feed brushes for detail work.
I expect this is a common way of working. Are there any problems with this ? Can anyone share advice on what they use, problems I might expect etc. I'm wondering about things like whether the paint dries out in the exit tubes in the bottles when not in use etc ??
I'm thinking of buying this http://www.iwata-medea.com/products/iwata-airbrushes/eclipse/hp-bcs/ and these http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Airbrush...-Air-Brush-22cc-Jar-Bottom-Feed-/121429674179 .
Is this going to work ??
cheers
Arron
Anyway, my problem is that I have bought a couple of gravity feed airbrushes but now I'm thinking that they don't really suit my requirements. The problem is that I need to spray small quantities of different colours - alternating. This means I'm continually cleaning out the airbrush cup, mixing up new colours and transferring. This isn't good because there is a lot of handling time, paint wastage, and the colours are not repeatable like I'd like them to be. I noticed today that in an hour long session I only did three minutes of actual spraying - the rest is cleaning, frigging and colour mixing time. It doesn't help that I'm not much good at colour mixing either.
So I'm thinking maybe I should buy a gravity feed airbrush, and a lot of spare bottles - the ones which attach straight to the airbrush. That way I could fill each bottle up with colour, either straight white or black or the mixes which I use, and just snap the bottles on or off as I need them. The mixed paint would be stored in the bottles, with a drop or two of thinner added each time I open them.
I'd probably buy a siphon feed airbrush and a dozen or so of the bottles - maybe ones with the little suction tube in, or maybe ones with a plain lid to be able to seal them up 100%.
I'll keep the current gravity feed brushes for detail work.
I expect this is a common way of working. Are there any problems with this ? Can anyone share advice on what they use, problems I might expect etc. I'm wondering about things like whether the paint dries out in the exit tubes in the bottles when not in use etc ??
I'm thinking of buying this http://www.iwata-medea.com/products/iwata-airbrushes/eclipse/hp-bcs/ and these http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Airbrush...-Air-Brush-22cc-Jar-Bottom-Feed-/121429674179 .
Is this going to work ??
cheers
Arron