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Spikey1973
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Hey guys..
Well to introduce myself i'm Matt, a 43 year old a fairly allround hobbyist.. that studies Medicine.. combined with a night time job.
As the budget is very tight I buy a lot directly via china... and in the past i found myself to be wanting to be able to do smaller paint jobs than one usually does with a spray can.. so a while ago i purchased a cheap chinese airbrush.. (gravity feed)
I also had a small compressor (without tank) that came with the other kind of airbrush and some paint. the airbrush is the kind where it has a big(ger) container at the bottom. well i can hardly call that an airbrush. more like a miniature paintgun.. and for a crap thing it seems like the least crappiest of all the crap.. but still crap.
Anyway.. as i said i had a mini compressor.. (max pressure about 40 PSI) without tank and without pressure regulator..
This has a nice plastic housing but it still looks a lot like the compressors i've seen use on youtube by many of you.
so i build a tank out of two 1,5 L pet bottles, added a water trap with pressure regulator and made sure that when the bottle burst i won't be affected.
Afterwards i started to detail the chinese airbrush and make it a little less bad.
As back ground i have a BsC in physics and am also a goldsmith so i know how things work and when they don't i can usually fix it.
As said. i am quite proud of the and result.. oke it will never be a 100 airbrush but still i think i improved it a lot.
I tried it out with some plain water and it seems to have a nice atomisation.
at the moment i'm making a small airbrush stand and cleaning station in one.
and read all about how to make your own acrylic thinners, retardents and flow improvers.
But now i come to the stage where i will need to actually put some paint in there and spray it at a piece of paper.
as said.. the "paint gune" came with some basic acrylic paints intended for airbrushing (according to the packaging, as it was an airbrush set). anyway it is fairly thick.. so it will need to be thinned (there for the airbrush thinner i believe)
but where do i start. All i found online is help on brand paints and this definately is not a brand paint. so how do i know how much thinner and how much paint.
must say that the containers are like only 1/3 filled. so does this mean i just top it up and mix it all up to the content of the container? but then again. it ælooks like some of the containers have more paint then the other.. or would there then be a colour difference and was that done intended?
anyway..
some help on this paint mixing topic would be very welcome.
Kind greats..
Matt
Well to introduce myself i'm Matt, a 43 year old a fairly allround hobbyist.. that studies Medicine.. combined with a night time job.
As the budget is very tight I buy a lot directly via china... and in the past i found myself to be wanting to be able to do smaller paint jobs than one usually does with a spray can.. so a while ago i purchased a cheap chinese airbrush.. (gravity feed)
I also had a small compressor (without tank) that came with the other kind of airbrush and some paint. the airbrush is the kind where it has a big(ger) container at the bottom. well i can hardly call that an airbrush. more like a miniature paintgun.. and for a crap thing it seems like the least crappiest of all the crap.. but still crap.
Anyway.. as i said i had a mini compressor.. (max pressure about 40 PSI) without tank and without pressure regulator..
This has a nice plastic housing but it still looks a lot like the compressors i've seen use on youtube by many of you.
so i build a tank out of two 1,5 L pet bottles, added a water trap with pressure regulator and made sure that when the bottle burst i won't be affected.
Afterwards i started to detail the chinese airbrush and make it a little less bad.
As back ground i have a BsC in physics and am also a goldsmith so i know how things work and when they don't i can usually fix it.
As said. i am quite proud of the and result.. oke it will never be a 100 airbrush but still i think i improved it a lot.
I tried it out with some plain water and it seems to have a nice atomisation.
at the moment i'm making a small airbrush stand and cleaning station in one.
and read all about how to make your own acrylic thinners, retardents and flow improvers.
But now i come to the stage where i will need to actually put some paint in there and spray it at a piece of paper.
as said.. the "paint gune" came with some basic acrylic paints intended for airbrushing (according to the packaging, as it was an airbrush set). anyway it is fairly thick.. so it will need to be thinned (there for the airbrush thinner i believe)
but where do i start. All i found online is help on brand paints and this definately is not a brand paint. so how do i know how much thinner and how much paint.
must say that the containers are like only 1/3 filled. so does this mean i just top it up and mix it all up to the content of the container? but then again. it ælooks like some of the containers have more paint then the other.. or would there then be a colour difference and was that done intended?
anyway..
some help on this paint mixing topic would be very welcome.
Kind greats..
Matt