Today I will show you everything you need to know about how to get started with an air brush I really really love this machine airbrush paint, it helps me to paint with lana scrap a lot faster and every week, you guys send me a lot of questions like what type of average do I use how much do they cost where can you get one what type of paints do I use and hopefully today I will be able to answer all of these questions for you so let’s not waste anymore of your precious time and jump right into it first, why should you use an air brush well to be perfectly honest, you don’t need to all the things you can do with an air brush, you can also do with regular brushes, it just won’t be as fast while turn out quite as clean, for example sweet lana asked me to paint her master sword from zelda with just regular brushes and acrylics airbrush compressor kit.I think it turned out just fine only when you get closer you can actually start to see all the brush strokes, it did however took me around a full day of work to complete the paint job in comparison this shield here which I painted with a brush looks super clean, there are no brush strokes whatsoever I was also able to complete the paint job in about two to three hours so as you can see it really depends on your personal preference next, whatever should you start with I often hear people that are afraid they won’t be able to afford buying an average the set I’m using however only cost around eighty Euros and it came with a compressor, a re-election average pistol a hosts and different needles, this is of course only a beginner set and you can always upgrade later, but you should nevertheless already come pretty far with this, what a good air brush paint brands I mostly work with vallejo model air.And game, air colors, they are really good quality and come in a large variety of colors, the model air ones are mostly pretty basic colors, while the game ere are a bit more fancy one bottle is only seventeen millimeters, but I feel like they last pretty long actually also they only cost around two Euro fifty per bottle at least here in Germany, so it’s really not that much, another good brand is create X average colors to be honest I don’t use them as much though so I can’t really say a lot about the layer also offers a good amount of high-quality metallic colors, these are really good for any type of metal looking paint job, however if you want your props and armor to look like real metal tryout, the alkaloid lockers I mentioned in my last video, they do cost a little bit more though, but can you also mix your own paint, yes you can actually use pretty much every standard acrylic paint for your brush, if you mix it with enough brush thinner.Just keep adding it until it’s fluid enough to go through your pistols, keep in mind though that some paint brands offer their own thinner, so I can’t promise that every thinner works equally good with every paint now is an air brush safe to use I would say that depends on the colors you’re using the vallejo colours are all water based and pretty harmless I would still suggest at least wearing a dust mask, if you plan to paint for a longer period of time, we actually built this handy spray booth out of a cheap Ikea closet and use it to suck away all the pain fumes out of a window but average paint doesn’t really fly very far so you should be good with just opening a window yourself, and now let’s get down to business, how does it even work, it is pretty easy, actually this year is my dual action average pistol, the paint goes inside the little bucket at the top, of course dual action basically just means that I can control the airflow and the pain flow separately, if I push the button on top.Start to flow, but only if I push it and drag it backwards there will also be pain coming out, there’s also a wheel at the end which you can turn to limit the amount of pain that will come out just set it lower, if you’re afraid to ruin your peace by being too generous with the paint, now let’s turn on the compressor, you will see that the pressure will immediately start building up whenever you release some air it will go down and then build itself back up again, so that’s normal, I’m just filling in a little bit of orange color to demonstrate to you how it works as I said by pressing it you’ll only get air drag the button backwards and pain will come up to pull it only a little, and you can apply a really thin coat of paint a lot and you’ll get a strong and thick application, if you go close you can draw pretty fine lines and if you go farther away, you can cover a lot of space in a short time, but what if no pain.Coming through well in this case, there’s most likely something stuck inside your paint bucket, just block the tip of your finger, and then try to spray to get the trapped air bubbles to clear anything that might block your pain flow after that it should usually work again, and if not I’m afraid you might have to clean the air brush completely, and what if you get big water drops coming up with your paint well, just like us, you most likely live in a pretty humid environment for this I actually bought a separate water filter that, I connected between the compressor and the holes just check it and release the trapped humidity by pressing the release a few times.Oh, by the way, if you don’t answer all the questions you have, we also have this wonderful book about air brush painting for props and costumes with a lot of just lovely examples, just for you.And last but not least, how do you clean your brush, if you don’t have a spray booth I highly recommend getting one of these average cleaning stations, you can just duck your pistol here and spray any remaining paint inside the filter here will help keep your house cleaner fumes now if you’re done with your paint shop or just want to change the color you’ll first have to empty your paint bucket put any leftover paint back into the tube, and then use a towel to clean the paint bucket as best as you can, then films on average cleaner blossom bubbles and use a small brush to get rid of any remaining paint at this point, you’re ready to fill in another color, if you want to stop painting, however you will need to take the air brush apart again as you can see there’s still some paint left on the needle, just wipe it with a towel and repeat this step a few times until it’s completely clean, you can also put. Some average cleaner on your brush and clean the tip, if you want and if you really want to go hardcore, you can also screw up the needle tip and cleaned the inside here but it’s not really necessary, cleaning brush every time is definitely the most annoying part about the whole process and finally I just wanted to show you a quick example of all the things such as showed you in action, now this I picked Milan asi no grandeur blades from monster hunter I started to paint this scaly looking blade by applying a very light sand colored layer after this I grabbed a darker tone to add some shadows and then an even darker one for some more as you can see I mostly try to stick close to the texture next I use some masking tape to protect the color work, I’ve done so far.And repeated the whole process with blue colors on the other side, only this time I went dark first and then applied brighter shades afterwards, finally the handle also got some Silver and bone colored shading, and after applying a setting gloss varnish to seal everything their paint job was done, it’s really fast and a lot of fun to paint with a brush, you should try that too, so I hope I answered all of your questions, but if you still have any of the left just write me a comment down below, but if you can or don’t want to work with an air brush out of any personal reason, we also have this wonderful book about painting without an air brush just with brushes and acrylics and I’m not getting forced to say any of this buy her books anyway, if you found this video helpful I would appreciate if you subscribe to the channel leave a like or hit the notification bell or.
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