Roll on the tank, this thing is fiddly
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And you think a tank will be less so? Think about the running gear.
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Big wheels though. This thing has an evil bastard’ designer, eh, the swivel hub UJ is no more than 5mm across and has six components!
Any road, looking like s truck now. Also, swmbo now regretting her suggestion of the dining room as a modelling workstation, can see a relocation coming up.
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I bought a new airbrush last year from a company called SnM. The package arrived with S’n’M stamped across it in big letters. I don’t think the postie believed me it was an airbrush. Careful who you buy from.
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Been thinking about an airbrush for the next one, bloody spendy for a decent one though.
Not cheap, but so much more accurate/even in paint distribution and a lot quicker. Looked at an awful lot of them and as far as I could see the Mr. Hobby, Proton 0.3 ticked all the boxes. It appears to be based on the Iwata range but without the Iwata price tag and had good reviews. A compressor off Amazon £80.00 and airbrush £100 works very well and should last an awful long time and takes the frustration of shaky hands out of painting.
Also it is suitable for using enamel paint, most of the cheaper brushes are ok for acrylics but enamel paint destroys the seals in them and spares come from China if you can get hold of them.
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How narrow can you get the cone of paint with this airbrush? Assume that airbrushes are good for large areas, but smaller pieces and details is still paint brush territory.
You can paint teeny tiny with most of them.
Fine details are still better off with a decent brush. Good brushes are a must too (Moar faff)
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that’s good to know, especially if I can do that when the teeny tiny bit is already part of a larger assembly. I do like paint brushes, you can do things with them that an airbrush can’t do, so suspect I will use both in equal measure, Horses for courses and all that.
I’m also thinking guitar-style fade-in paint finishes on lovely, lovely turntable plinths…
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In the 41st Millennium, there are only arms.
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I have made so many painting armies jokes. The kids don’t approve.
Painting teeny future men is quite fun. The kids enjoy it and it gets us all sat down together for a while.
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I was always more of an Epic fan myself but I love some of the models you can get now. The Forge World stuff makes R2R look like a cheap hobby though.
I just like painting and modelling stuff. The game can be quite fun but I lose a lot to the child.
The narrower the airbrush needle the finer you can go with detail for example a 0.2 will be capable of a finer jet of paint than my 0.3, but a finer needle can clog more quickly. Equally air pressure and controlling the amount of paint with finger pressure takes practice to achieve but is well worth getting a feel for it. I used kitchen roll to practice on from fine dots and lines to general wide spraying, equally it’s economical paint wise as straight out of the pot the paint will clog. I tend to use a 50/50 mix especially with enamel. Loads of YouTube videos, that’s the way I learned the basics, haven’t progressed very far though 
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Finished apart from outriggers and final weathering which I’ll do along with the diorama. On with the tank now.
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