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Im a relatively new airbrush user, so Im certainly no vet, but Im one of the Iwata compressor people. I have the Silver Jet - the low end Iwata - and I think its great.

http://www.dixieart.com/Iwata_Silver_Je ... essor.html

Future does do wonders on clear plastic, and yes, it can be painted on with a brush straight from the bottle.

Awesome - thanks for the quick reply macfrank. Id had seen both of those types, but the pictures were low quality, and from the very top down. Those are perfect pictures, and exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

Im working on a miniature that I want to put some lights in the base. Im using a plastic, frosted bottle top as the base (like the one on a gatorade bottle) - its about 1 3/4 inches/4.5 cm in diameter. In a perfect world, Id like to rig it ALL up in the bottle top - LED, Resistor, and a coin cell ba...

Sorry to both hijack someone else's post AND bring a post back from the dead, but... First of all, I wondered if Stellar_Expanse might see this post again - I was wondering about his/her results. Second, if I were to pick between Liquitex, Pactra, and House of Kolor for a nice pearl acrylic finish, ...

http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentView?pn=SF_EV_Christmas_Light_Trade-In&langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053&cm_sp=homepage-_-wk40-_-H1-_-ChristmasLightTradeIn I searched - sorry if someone else has already posted. For those of you with a Home Depot, they...

I purchased some of the bragdon powders, and I really like the result I got with them. Can they have dullcoat painted over the top of them???

Just fwiw, I bought a nice Iwata brush about a month back, and Im never looking back...

I use http://www.fiberopticproducts.com/. Ive had great luck with them.

EDIT - oh yeah, the website isnt all that great, but dont let it fool ya

That looks really good Quincy. I like that. Ive seen that written other places, but Im afraid of melting too much off with the iron.

Ive got two models I want to bang up - a Falcon and an Xwing. I want to make the bolt marks on top of the Falcon (you know, the big chunks that are missing!), and I want to make like a grazing blaster shot across one of the wings of the Xwing. I guess I cant really go wrong with any Dremel attachmen...

Future is a clear floor wax, believe it or not. Its actually Pledge with Future Shine. Dont let the name fool you - its really not wax, but a hard acrylic finish. http://www.floorcareproducts.com/floor-finish/index.asp Hey redfinger, what percentages do you use with vallejo and future? What ratio pa...

Have any of you ever used the weathering system from Bragdon Enterprises?http://www.bragdonent.com/weather.htm (Ive done some searches here on the site, and dont see it mentioned - apologies if I have missed it!)

It seems like it might be interesting stuff

Something like this?

http://www.microstru.com/Experimenter-Kits.html

Ive done some searches, and Im sorry if I have missed this question somewhere, but why should one use an airbrush vs a regular paintbrush? With the exception of primer, I have always used a paint brush and a bottle of paint (even base coats). Id like to think Im pretty good with a nice sable brush. ...

Oh yeah, feel free to ask any questions and Ill do my best to answer, as Im sure will most of the people who see this post.

To get a little more complicated, now say you wanted multiple lights to feed from your 9v battery. You can have serial circuits and parallel circuits. In a serial circuit, you connect all the LEDs to each other where you have the negative post of one LED connecting to the positive post of the next L...

Im in the middle of lighting my first model - a star destroyer - that has a very simple circuit. So far, things seem to be going well, but Im still waiting for the disaster to happen and kill it all, so take this post with a grain of salt... Gauge, like you, I knew absolutely NOTHING about lighting,...

THanks for the well thought out response Kitty. Sounds like Im going in the right direction...I just need practice now.

Thanks for all of the info. I didnt know anything about evergreen styrene until this post. After a little looking, I think Im in love!

Thanks again

I just bought an AMT star destroyer off of evil bay and its missing parts (plus, Id like to try to add some of my own detail). What tool do you use to cut sheet styrene? What do you use to create detail in it? Ive looked at some of the stickies at the top of the forum...does an x-acto work? Somethin...

Hello! I have lurked here on this site for a long time (two years I think! :shock: ) and I have finally decided to get an account because I have a lighting question that I need help with! Ive been researching a lot, both here, as well as other sites, and maybe Im just dense... First of all, I know S...