K*Paint - Airbrush Adventures
 

Hi Everyone

A month or so ago I bought myself an Iwata Neo airbrush as I've always loved the idea of spraying my own shells.

For the past few weeks I have limited myself to doing one colour shells as I would like to get used to doing even coats and not rush into overly complex designs... but yesterday I made an attempt at my first custom paint job.

Overall im pretty pleased, im happy with my orange fading and the sharpness of SOME of my lines, I'm not happy with the black drop shadow on white. and the quality at times with my lines.

Any feedback/pointers/C&C is more than welcome....thanks

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Nice choice of colours

my second shell completed tonight, Took around 4-5 hours in total including masking ect.
Need to order more colours and get started on some TC shells :)

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Tidy first attempts!

Don't be too hard on yourself, the accuracy with the scalpel and airbrush will come in time.

What is it particularly about the black drop shadow that you don't like? - I'm never keen on shading into white - it shows every trace of overspray and can look dirty. How about trying a colour that ties in with the overall scheme, rather than simply black. Less is more too!

Cheers

Joo

I was just not that happy with the consistency of the shadow and the shear amount of over spray, But black was not the best choice, I think I achieved a better shadow on the second shell.

What do you guys use for cleaning Alclad chrome from your brush? Createx cleaner and thinners did nothing to clean it out and took me a good 45mins to get it all out again.

For cleaning up Alclad paints I use cellulose thinners the Alclad is lacquer based so you'll have to use a suitable thinner such as cellulose which will rip it from your brush in moments. Createx is water based (acrylic) so the thinner for that won't do anything really about lacquer based stuff.
Word of warning tho the stuff stinks so make sure you open up all the windows or if you can clean up outside even better.

Thanks for that, It will certainly make the job of cleaning Alclad alot easier :)

Do you guys use anything to coat the shell with once its all sprayed? to keep the water ect off?

My favourite is Tamiya matt lacquer, but plain old Plastikote is fine, Faskoat is pretty good too (Faskolors own).

In all cases, let the paint thoroughly dry for a few days, then only dust it on in light coats, thicker coats on fresh paint seem to make the paint brittle, and prone to chipping off the shell in a knock.

cheers

J

Latest Project for a friend, My third attempt with an airbrush.

I Had a few problems with the black backing on the chrome peeling up when I removed the masks, i had sprayed RCS chrome, then 2 light coats of black and left to dry overnight before removing the masks. Am I doing anything wrong?

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it is best to spray the chrome last to avoid that problem

Great job buddy :)

Yes, try to spray chrome last if possible.
I have done it before last numerous times but you need to be super careful with your backing and what other colours need to go down after.
So yeh, try to spray chrome last if possible.

Cheers guys

I have a few more shells sitting waiting to be sprayed so i will try to do the chrome last to see ow if effects results.

Cheers.

A few more completed this weekend.

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Really nice, love the marbling on the blue .

Yep, easy to see the progression from the first pics you posted ;-)

A few recent ones completed this weekend. Pictures were taken late at night so they do not do them justice.

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Since when did 2wd off road shells get so small! the last off road car i owned was a Losi XXX

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A few more from the past week.

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two tamiya mini's for some committee members of the UMCC

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Another shell completed for a club member, I REALLY like this one :)

I tried to subtly splatter some paint into the lighter blue area without overdoing it.

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Another tamiya mini in time for the Indoor season.

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A 1/5th and 1/10th scale completed, I was asked to copy a design for this one, Some of you may recognise it ;)

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And finally a MERC SLS in Erubus Motorsport colours, Including Matt black :)

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Not sure i enjoy doing 1/10th 2WD my sausage fingers find it hard to cut the masking

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Nice work! :thumbsup:

Dark Nights means crappy photo's, But two more 2wd shells completed.


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More Tamiya TT02 fun!

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Two completed for the current Irish National Champion


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Looking good, really nice effect with the mesh, nice and subtle fade, like it.

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Nice stuff. Certainly banging them out! I'm sure I've seen that big tourer design somewhere... ;-)

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My two favourite shells so far:
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Doing some nice stuff!

Cheers Julian, The purple/blue one's are for myself and based of a design I saw a few years ago. The other two are my two favourite's so far and for a Club member's trip to the ICC in Feb.

Still learning as always :) and I'd be worried if you hadn't of recognised that 1/5th :)

just collected my bmax2 from proracing with this delicious paint job from graham.looks absolutely stunning in natural light.thanks graham,looks like a bmax4 shell maybe coming your way real soon.

Hi jez
I'm glad your happy. It looks really well mounted up!

even better looking in daylight,the pink is gorgeous.looks like a k1 shell will be coming your way soon.can you copy it?