Thread: Storm Raven Modificato

Originally Posted by Ironbullet

Airbrush? Any chance you'd do a little tutorial on your paint job?

Yeah, too much to cover with a normal brush. I used a light coat of Citadel white primer, very light. With airbrushing I don't have too much trouble with white or black, airbrushing gives you plenty of coverage, especially since layers dry quickly and you can keep going over it until you get what you want.

(On a side note, you can get good bright colors over black by using the Citadel Foundation colors and then building up layers of brighter color on top of that.)

For this project I'm using the same colors as my Fire Hawk army (similar orange can be found my some Mandrakes I did a while back): the base coat is a combination I mixed of Tamiya Orange and Hull Red, with a little bit of brown and red ink thrown in, which makes for a nice burnt orange color. The dark parts are straight Hull Red and the highlights are straight Orange. The base color is almost exactly Macharian Orange, from the Foundation range and I use that for touch-ups. I think the key is the Hull Red, which is a really dark red-brown. It makes the orange brighter, but isn't as dark as brown or black that would be too contrasty.

Now I just need to go over all the metallics and hit a few places with black. I finished the cockpit this weekend, now it is all exterior work.

The nice thing about orange is that both green and blue make really strong contrasts-- I did all the controls in the cockpit in green and it came out pretty nice.

Got some more work done on it.

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This one.

The small hobby ones are nice, but to get a quiet one you have to spend big bucks. For less than that I got a huge 33 gallon tank so I never need to run the compressor while I'm working. (Actually, I had it already from my auto racing hobby. You can't run air tools from a little air brush compressor.)

I've wanted to try the little pancake 3 gallon compressors to see if I could do the same thing, probably could for small vehicles or for a squad, but then you'd have to run it. The little pancake compressors you can get from Harbor Freight or Lowes/Home Depot for less than $100. I think they are a better investment than a dedicated compressor for an airbrush.

Eventually I want to run an airline from the garage through the wall into my office paint station (they are adjacent). Then I can airbrush in the house and be far from the compressor.

I like the orange. You're getting pretty fancy with the air brush.

Originally Posted by whill4

Thanks for the info. The running the line from the garage plan is a good one I think. If the wife is OK with it that is.

Luckily for me, I can literally put the compressor on the other side of the wall from my painting desk, so I could get away with just a 6" hardline. If you had a longer run, it might not be worth it.

Originally Posted by CRP

I like the orange. You're getting pretty fancy with the air brush.

Airbrushing makes all vehicles look better.