me in japan's Nurgle stuff (Dave in Tsu)

[Mike the Pike]

Just out of curiousity, why Tamiya M_i_J?

[Admiral-Badruck]

Tamiya are soooo much better in an Air Brush

[me_in_japan]

@mike - what the ork said.

[Mike the Pike]

That follows, since they make most of the airbrushes.What do you two use air-brush wise?

[Admiral-Badruck]

I use an Airtex MJ-724 brush and an APC-001R Compressor

I found that a mix of 100 yen artistic Acrylic paints and Tamaiya works the best and will not break your piggy bank..

[me_in_japan]

I use the single action Tamiya airbrush, but while it hasnt given me any issues, if I were to start again, Id get the one rob has - double action is far preferable to single, and worth the small extra outlay. Paint wise, i use tamiya thinned with whatever thinner my local shop has in at the time. I need to find a way to spend less on airbrush paint. (A pot is much cheaper than GW paint, but you go through them like nobody's business)

[Primarch]

I know the airbrush is faster, but is the quality much different from painting by hand?
I can see their use for basecoating a model, but how much control do you have over the level of detail you can paint with them? I was hoping to get the 'Eavy Metal spray gun, but it was only being sold for one day. That thing looked sweet.

[me_in_japan]

The differences are many.

1) The coverage you get from an airbrush is ace. Red and Yellow would benefit especially.

2) You can do funky things like zenithal highlighting in about 30 seconds, as opposed to the 30 hours itd take you to do it by brush.

3) For tanks, there are a lot of weathering techniques you can only do with an airbrush, because it doesnt actually touch the mini. A regular brush would leave streaky wierd brush stroke marks on it, or knock the weathering off completely.

plus a whole parcel o stuff I havent learned about yet, no doubt.

ps - there are a great many well established, reasonably priced airbrush manufactures out there. GW are not one of them. Id steer clear of any company entering an already established market with their own-brand product.

[Primarch]

ps - there are a great many well established, reasonably priced airbrush manufactures out there. GW are not one of them. Id steer clear of any company entering an already established market with their own-brand product.

Did you SEE the 'Eavy Metal airbrush? It had 4 barrels and could paint an entire model in one go. Sadly it was a limited offer.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/conte ... d=9900028a

[Spevna]

Good to see someone at GW still has a sense of humour.