Airbrushes and weathering

sci-fi-bldr · Post by **sci-fi-bldr** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:36 pm

About how much do you use your airbrush for weathering...

A little.....just for deep areas........or do you try to do most of it with one?

photoguy · Post by **photoguy** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:05 pm

I probably do 90% of my paint work with an airbrush. That includes pre-shading, base color, blending, mask work (including aztecs), stencils, weathering, you name it.

I use a 000 spotting brush for fine detail work, and a lot of decals for markings and complex patterns.

I LOVE my airbrush

Mr. Badwrench · Post by **Mr. Badwrench** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:10 am

Maybe about 20% or 30%. Preshading and post fading, and maybe some soot streaks. The rest I do with oil washes, drybrushing, pastels, and pencils.

seam-filler · Post by **seam-filler** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:34 am

Never. I'm not practiced enough with it to get anything. I still do my weathering by hand with washes and pastels.

Kylwell · Post by **Kylwell** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:37 am

Like Mr Badwrench I'll do pre and post shading with an airbrush, some soot/smoke stains but the rest is oils & pastels (the Tamiya weathering sets falling into the pastels category).

Post by **TER-OR** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:21 pm

Same here, lots of weathering effects with the airbrush.

sci-fi-bldr · Post by **sci-fi-bldr** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:17 pm

Thanks for the replies guys....

I use the airbrush alot for weathering....sometimes I feel too much....

While I have tried washes..and pastels here and there.....I haven't used them as much as I feel I should....going to start practicing them more

seam-filler · Post by **seam-filler** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:31 am

My answer to that is to use whatever method you're comfortable with as long as it produces the results you want. There's no harm in learning a new technique, though - I am slowly working on gaining enough practice with an airbrush to get enough confidence to let loose on a model.