Have you tried thinning down the contrast paint with Lahmian Medium then run it through your airbrush ?
Yes, got a similar result. Would be great if I wanted a very flat black lol.
Possibly because it goes on thin and even, then dries, then your second thin coat goes on even, and so on, whereas by brush it does its thing and slides away from flat areas etc?
Haven’t really thought about it before as I haven’t airbrushed it over metallics, I’ve used Vallejo Xpress over a pre-shaded black and white model and it worked well but I really was using it as a normal paint, just one that would allow a bit more of the pre-shade to show
I read a lot about this before and it seems a lot of people do use contrast paint for an airbrush but perhaps for different results or effects that I'm getting. Interestingly, I sprayed some volupus pink over the metal and that turned into a candy metallic pink. It just doesn't work with the black. I will try a normal black paint I guess and see.
I don't think the 'contrast' ability of contrast paints really works via an airbrush does it? You won't get the run off effect, it'll dry too quickly as it's being applied so thin and pretty much just behave like a normal paint but maybe ever so slightly less opaque.
Conflicting information out there. Obviously you do not get the recess pooling benefit but you do get a good flat spray I guess.
Gonna keep on trucking. Only way to figure it out. I do seem to never get much paint now when I mix it myself like it looks a lot in my little mixing pot but then I pour it into the gravity cup and it barely gets above the feeder hole.
Like I put four 'drops' from a TTC paint and about 6 of thinner and yeah barely resulted in any. Rather than go mad and buy the whole range, I'm going to buy a couple of army painter air just to see what they like.
Another thing I've struggled with is when I sprayed the metal if I try to spray slightly underneath the last pass, the air from the gun would blow the previous pass around because it's so thin.
Oh and randomly white specks in pink paint, not touched white today, just black/metal/purples
Edit. Stuck my sharp poker thing in the nozzle and a couple of bits of white stuff came out. Possibly grey from yesterday.