New advice: airbrushes
Discussion
Last time I built a plastic kit was some 25 years ago, but as I edge near to the big 40, I seem to be reverting to my inner child more and more, and am getting back to what I used to be in to.
I've done some research into starting tools and kit - I've an order coming with a lot stuff, most notably an Italeri Range Rover. I intend to get my first built done as something to give my Father-in-law who owned a classic RR for sometime and it was his favourite car. He'll appreciate whatever standard of the model I give him!
Where I want to heard is late 80s to mid 90s F1 cars (I always loved the back of the grid stuff, moreso than the posh cars..), and Group C to GT1 class Le Mans cars. Being born in 81, watching F1 with my Dad on Grandstand my first motorsport memory was the 99T Senna car, in his last year in a Lotus. After that, it became an obsession.
I digress! It seems if I want to do justice to some of the fantastic kits on offer, I need to look at airbrushes - which I know absolutely nothing about. So, PH; where do I start? Assuming I can buy a cheap one and end up buying a good one or just start at a good one? What is a good one? What size (0.2, 0.5 etc) is best to start with? Brands, costs, compressors? Help!
I've done some research into starting tools and kit - I've an order coming with a lot stuff, most notably an Italeri Range Rover. I intend to get my first built done as something to give my Father-in-law who owned a classic RR for sometime and it was his favourite car. He'll appreciate whatever standard of the model I give him!
Where I want to heard is late 80s to mid 90s F1 cars (I always loved the back of the grid stuff, moreso than the posh cars..), and Group C to GT1 class Le Mans cars. Being born in 81, watching F1 with my Dad on Grandstand my first motorsport memory was the 99T Senna car, in his last year in a Lotus. After that, it became an obsession.
I digress! It seems if I want to do justice to some of the fantastic kits on offer, I need to look at airbrushes - which I know absolutely nothing about. So, PH; where do I start? Assuming I can buy a cheap one and end up buying a good one or just start at a good one? What is a good one? What size (0.2, 0.5 etc) is best to start with? Brands, costs, compressors? Help!
I bought one of these kits off eBay
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132166170957
I only bought it because of the compressor as I'd got an airbrush already, and thought the two it came with would be junk, but they're actually ok as starter airbrushes.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132166170957
I only bought it because of the compressor as I'd got an airbrush already, and thought the two it came with would be junk, but they're actually ok as starter airbrushes.
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