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Vetter wrote:Well, disregarding the spelling bit. I just bought a couple of eyedroppers at the local store. Just a suggestion as opposed to the whole mailed from another country thing.

This. Glass ones clean up nicely for reuse and the measurements make mixing much more accurate.

Would Alclad primers be too hot for resin?

Try this:

http://www.swannysmodels.com/TheCompleteFuture.html

Maybe just a piece of brass tube that fits snugly. I presume just buying a new cap at either of the hobby shops in cost prohibitive? Or maybe just buy a gravity cup that attaches to a siphon airbrush?

Met a guy at a small show last weekend who is a local airbrush wizard and loves them for detailing.

I bought this setup about 3 months ago. They are both Harder and Steenback Infinity. They absolutle ROCK! Easy to break down and with the smallest tip I can get a consistant line under 1mm wide. For an air source I use a CO2 tank. Been using it for 30 years. No noise at all, the gas is dry as a bon...

Easy stuff to work with and sands easily enough. It's a lot thinner than some of the other putties I've worked with - which is nice. Comes with an applicator that you can open to a very small diameter making it easier to apply to smaller gaps and seams. You can even apply it with a syringe. Smoothin...

I used to swear by Model Master paints - except the primer. I hated the adhesion of the primer. And most of their whites sucked too. I only use Tamiya primer out of the rattle can now, and have come to love their paints through an airbrush. Little by little, I will be replacing all my MM paints with...

Wait so does this mean I'm a complete and total n00b for using Model Master Liquid Cement for Plastic Models? http://www.kitkraft.biz/files/images/d_73017.jpg I've been using CA now for about the last 10 years or so for just about everything - gluing and filling mostly - on styrene. But I've been w...

Testors Metalizer thinner. You should be able to find it wherever they sell Metalizer. Unfortunately, thanks to a "dispute" with Canada customs, Testors no longer sells metalizers in Canada. Even more unfortunate was when I was in the States last summer, I forgot to get more. Thanks for t...

What can I use to thin Testors Metalizer paints? I've got a couple that have been sitting on my shelf, and they've evaporated a bit.

I use Model Master Acryls and use their gray primer. How much can I thin it before it loses its effective priming qualities i.e. keeps paint sticking to the surface?

iSteve, thanks for sharing that information on our Badger Air-Brush Co. products, but I hope you don't mind if I can clarify a few points for thread readers. Whether you us the bottom feed jar and adptor or the 1/4 oz. color cup - the Crescendo is still a bottom feed airbrush that must be operated ...

I've been meaning to get a decent airbrush for a while now. Dual action, gravity feed. I'd like to get something nice, so I won't have to replace it later, hopefully in the $75-$150 range. I think I've decided on a Badger 105 over the 360 because the gravity feed paint cup is a bit small on the 360...

Did you check out the "Airbrush Survey" sticky thread above? It's very helpful.

I feel your pain. I had the same thing happen to me last night trying to paint the aztec on the nacelles. My fault for not priming them first. Did a light sanding around the offending area and primed and painted again. I use Testors gray primer and Tamiya masking tape. I don't blame the tape; it's p...

I've been using Microscale Microgloss and find it easily clogs up my airbrush. I've been thinning with water as suggested on the bottle, but don't want to overdo it.

Anyone use this stuff and what thinning ratio do you use?

Kylwell wrote:If you say so.... Never had an issue, usually thin about 50/50. When it gets down to some 80/20 you've got to be careful of your distance and pressure to avoid instant spiders but other than that..

Agreed, never had what Kenny described either, using MM acryls.

I've finished my colours, done in Model Masters acrylics. My LHS is out of MM gloss (for decaling) but said I could use the Tamiya acrylic gloss I already have. Once the decals are on, I want to finish it with semi-gloss, which I have again in Model Masters acrylic. Has anyone mixed brands like this...

Kylwell wrote:

iSteve wrote:Can Model Master metal paints be mixed? Eg: Put some copper in with aluminum to get a colour more like the hull of the NX-01?

The Metalizers, acryls, and the enamels can be intermixed among the same paint line (metalizer with metalizer, acryl wth acryl, etc).

Excellent - Thanks Kylwell!

Can Model Master metal paints be mixed? Eg: Put some copper in with aluminum to get a colour more like the hull of the NX-01?

Anyone ever try Airbrush City's stuff - particularly their compressors?

Go to Lee Valley

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx ... ,180,42240

$5 Canadian and their head office is in Ottawa. They have some of the coolest hobby stuff around at great prices.

Ah, what you want to do is create a set of custom colors much like the Pantone lookup system. Here's the instructions. http://photoshop911.typepad.com/help/2004/04/saving_and_load.html I think what Mike wants to do is take a colour sample via the eyedropper in Photoshop of, say, a photo of a ship, ...

Yes, but painstaking and probably expensive for you. On-screen colours and physical colours are never an exact match and depending on how you have your screen calibrated will probably not look the same on-screen as the next guy's. The equipment needed to sample each colour is not cheap. You can eyeb...

See the section of the forums on "Finishing."

I plan on going but I have to see if my lawyer can get the paperwork in order in time (don't ask - let's just say the INS and I had words and they were WRONG). Anyway, I'm looking forward to the classes. Is it possible to attend all the classes or do they overlap? By the way, I don't have any proble...

One point you might want to detail Terry is the range of widths of spray eg: 1/8", 1/16", 1/32", 2", 4", etc. One person's fine line is not necessarily the same as the next.