Is that all it is? I thought there was more to it. Haha
Are cheap airbrush kits really that bad?
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Soldato
so then after putting it off for a few months today I got the AS 186 delivered from Amazon along with some cleaner (I already has airbrush thinners for some of the thicker paints)
any tips on starting out spraying? I was thinking about picking up some cheap foamcore and making a makeshift spray fold away booth for about £5 so I don't get in trouble from the wife for painting the kitchen table a new colour(s)
I wasn't sure on the idea but I cant seem to get along with brush on primer and at £7+ for a can on primer that does about 15-30 models I thought it was worth a punt as my current list is:
to finish: Space Hulk (genestealers primed but still to start but the marines are nearly complete, Zombicide - fatties and a couple of runner done, Imperial Assault - storm troopers, ATAT and droids done but im not too happy with some of them so may need repeating once I get the hang of spraying.
And still to Start: Super Dungeon Explore and Sedition wars (only purchased for the minis as it was £20, might be my practice pieces for the spraying) and Dark Souls board game backed on kickstarter so I have a year to get through the others as I want to be good by the time I do dark souls.
any tips on starting out spraying? I was thinking about picking up some cheap foamcore and making a makeshift spray fold away booth for about £5 so I don't get in trouble from the wife for painting the kitchen table a new colour(s)
I wasn't sure on the idea but I cant seem to get along with brush on primer and at £7+ for a can on primer that does about 15-30 models I thought it was worth a punt as my current list is:
to finish: Space Hulk (genestealers primed but still to start but the marines are nearly complete, Zombicide - fatties and a couple of runner done, Imperial Assault - storm troopers, ATAT and droids done but im not too happy with some of them so may need repeating once I get the hang of spraying.
And still to Start: Super Dungeon Explore and Sedition wars (only purchased for the minis as it was £20, might be my practice pieces for the spraying) and Dark Souls board game backed on kickstarter so I have a year to get through the others as I want to be good by the time I do dark souls.
Commissario
If you want to practice possibly one of the best ways is to get some vallejo primer (about £12 for 200ml, available in something like 12 colours last time I looked), as that is both something you'll be using and cheap enough to waste some 
To give an idea of how far vellejo primer will go, from memory I used a fraction of one of the big bottles doing about 200 nids of various sizes.
To give an idea of how far vellejo primer will go, from memory I used a fraction of one of the big bottles doing about 200 nids of various sizes.
Soldato
If you want to practice possibly one of the best ways is to get some vallejo primer (about £12 for 200ml, available in something like 12 colours last time I looked), as that is both something you'll be using and cheap enough to waste some
To give an idea of how far vellejo primer will go, from memory I used a fraction of one of the big bottles doing about 200 nids of various sizes.
that's the stuff I have been trying to brush on (got a 200ml bottle of white) and its a pain in the ass to get it working with a brush as it seems to bubble a lot, I found mixing it with black to give a dark grey worked well but ill give it a go neat on some of the models see how it goes.