Air Brush

[Mr Havoc]

Does anyone use a airbrush on painting heads and parts? I mean for the big stuff like the skin on the face or hands. Just thought I might give it a try.

[Bo8a_Fett]

It's certainly good for overall colours and toning up or down after finishing washes and such.

[mego73]

I sometimes use airbrushes to lay down the flesh color

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I haven't; but there's no reason you couldn't. I have used it once, on a repro wrap for my Mummy. Used it to streak the fabric like the bodysuit.

Don C.

[Bizarro Amy]

I've never used one of those before. How well would it work to stencil patterns on fabric?

[ddgaff1132]

Airbrushing is great for overall color and later fine applications like shadowing or cheek blush. The important things are the airbrush itself. I suggest a dual action like "Pashe or badger" (Dual action= push down for airflow and draw the trigger back to introduce paint to the air stream.) and the paint. Acrylics work great in airbrushes but you want to get them to a cream like consistancy. Too thick and the airbrush sputters. to thin and it will spit paint on your project.

Painting on fabrics is do-able also. it all depends on the stensil. I airbrushed the question mark on the Riddler. as you see. My stensil wasnt quite sealed between the period and the rest

[spiderrogue]

i had an airbrush a couple of years ago..and it was pretty cool....it wasnt anything too great, but it worked just fine...took awhile to prepare and to clean up, but got easier and faster the more that i did it....i know that this isnt a mego or mego like custom, but it is one of the few that i airbrushed back in the day...great results...if you arent sure that you will like it, start off cheap..but one from walmart for 50 bucks or whatever they cost(thats what i did and used for this custom, and it came with a compressor)....
wish i still had one for my current FC hulkster...d'oh!!