Geoffers
SMF Supporter
Hello chaps,
Just watched this on YouTube and thought it may be of interest
Cheers,
Geoff.
Just watched this on YouTube and thought it may be of interest
Cheers,
Geoff.
I think he forgot that it’s both. If you don’t have much skill, your tools don’t really matter that much, as long as they’re appropriate to the job — but as your skill rises, you will run into the limits of your current tools, and it helps to get more specialised and/or expensive ones that will work or perform better so you can actually use the skills you’ve learned. This applies even with very basic ones like, say, a hammer: if you can barely hammer in a nail without hitting your fingers half the time, it doesn’t really matter which kind of hammer you use, you’ll bend nails with any of them. By the time you can hit the nail almost every time, you’ll see the advantage in having a few different sizes of hammer. Airbrushes are not really any different, IMHO, and chances are this fellow suffers a little from the thing where people who have a skill at a reasonable level, find it hard to put themselves into the shoes of someone who doesn’t (I think that has a name, but I can’t remember what it is).
Or tape a length of plastic card or stretched sprue to the airbrush and cut it to the length you want.Trying to paint fine lines is the reason I bend so many needles!
Good tip to leave the crown cap on and use it like a spacer, I'll give that a try, although I'm not sure it'll work as well on a model as you haven't usually got that flat surface you have with artwork.
Yes the hammer.... used that a few times in my model making years, and the foot up the rear when things have driven you to dispair.....I think he forgot that it’s both. If you don’t have much skill, your tools don’t really matter that much, as long as they’re appropriate to the job — but as your skill rises, you will run into the limits of your current tools, and it helps to get more specialised and/or expensive ones that will work or perform better so you can actually use the skills you’ve learned. This applies even with very basic ones like, say, a hammer: if you can barely hammer in a nail without hitting your fingers half the time, it doesn’t really matter which kind of hammer you use, you’ll bend nails with any of them. By the time you can hit the nail almost every time, you’ll see the advantage in having a few different sizes of hammer. Airbrushes are not really any different, IMHO, and chances are this fellow suffers a little from the thing where people who have a skill at a reasonable level, find it hard to put themselves into the shoes of someone who doesn’t (I think that has a name, but I can’t remember what it is).
find it hard to put themselves into the shoes of someone who doesn’t (I think that has a name, but I can’t remember what it is).
True, you can have a Roll Royce and still be a bad driver. Plus if you struggle with the medium you are using sometimes it is better to change. I remember spending over two hours cleaning out the airbrushes, no matter how much I thinned or did not thin the acrylics they just would not perform - then changed over to enamel and not a problem, then the following day went back to acrylics and not a problem - me or the airbrush...
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