I’m new to the airbrushing world. I have just ordered the ultra 2024. Can’t wait for it to arrive. So I can’t get cracked in. These videos are absolutely fantastic and super helpful. So I would like to thank you all at Harden & Steenbeck.
Hi, really good information! I like the candy wrapper idea. One point to consider: Could you perhaps show some examples while explaining? It makes things far more understandable and visual. Take a stencil and show the different effects when you tilt it or spray from another angle. Same goes with the candy wrapper. Keep making these videos😊
Thanks Mark - we will. Our strategy with this video series is to get the max amount of info our there in the fastest way possible, hence the lack of complex demos. Once we see which things people have really responded, we'll know which demo vids are of most interest. So these videos are kind of a research project for us as well, to find out what you guys really want to see in demos. They take a little longer to make, so we want to make sure that the ones we do, are the ones you want.
Good to hear. Really like that. But what I meant though was just instead of using arms a quick use of airbrush spray. Nothing fancy. Also when mentioning the candy, just show a model on the table. Do we get a good idea of what you mean. Again nothing fancy. Hope you understand?
Candies and colored clears are so much fun! They add a whole new dimension to airbrushing paints. I've just started experimenting with colored clears and it's a blast. My 4 year old son loved a spoon I painted with a metallic titanium gold color and then sprayed clear green over it... "It looks like an apple!" Another informative video by H&S! I absolutely love these quick videos with handy bits of information. Please keep it up!
As a modeller first and foremost, it is cool to see you mentioning "candy" coating... It's cool to see it on model cars, gunpla, and I can only imagine it looking cool on some space marines or any kind of robots...
@@harderairbrush It was a trend for Sinanju and Qubeley... Perl, Red candy coat and similar. And, best gold colour I have ever seen. Any gold colour and on top of it clear yellow... Only gold looks bland after you see that combination...
Personally I use the A-Stand Candy Paint Range by MIG. Easy to airbrush via my trusty Evolution. 0.4 needle, 0.8 bar pressure, very slight needle pushback. But man the Candy effect is so much more deep than the usual Clear Red/green etc over shinny metal approach. Down side of the A-Stand colors is that you can not apply this stuff easily via brush. The solvent just evaporizes under a minute and it kills any brush.
It is interesting that candy paints were mentioned for miniature painters. I often wondered why paints like the Tamiya clear range have not been used for certain OSL applications, other than their glossy finish. Candy/clear paints can be perfect for objects like lenses, eyes, gems, displays...
Another great video. And thanks for the heads up with candy colors. I’ll definitely plan to pick one up and experiment with some tints on my miniatures. Keep up the great work folks!
I work in the automotive sector so I'm familiar with candies. I experimented with a space marine using a chrome base with blue candy over and it gave an interesting effect.
I think all Space Marine armour is probably candy effect when it's new. Otherwise, what's the point of being a Space Marine if you don't get cool gear?
On your comments on “Candy” colors, I used 2 colors of metallic under my airbrushed contrast/speed paint to get both a zenithal effect and a metallic effect using the translucency of the speed paint. This worked on both figure and larger models to great effect.
Never tried an airbrush, but am considering ordering one after I found it on squidmars channel. And this channel is giving great tips on how to use them!
Hey there - glad you're considering it! Airbrushing is easier than it haws ever been thanks to the great airbrush paints that we have available nowadays. Used to be really hard in the old days! And unfortunately that has stuck for longer than it's actually true.
@@harderairbrush watched the video where you paint for 30min, and show how easy it was to clean, and I was sold. It has always been the cutback for me, when it seemed more time went into cleaning the brush instead of using it! So I have order my first airbrush! I can see you recommend sparmax compressors, may I ask why? Are they any quieter than their competitors? =) Thanks!
Yes, we want to be airbrushing, not cleaning - agreed! Thanks for joining us! Sparmax, we recommend because we've known the product for a long time, and know that they last for years. As you probably know, there are similar products out there, which may be very good, but I just don't have enough experience of them to say that I *know* they are. Sparmax, I know, are reasonably quiet, reasonably priced, and are top drawer on quality.
Enjoying your videos & like the Q+A & How-To explanations. You mentioned the Createx brand of candy colours, however Vallejo have their own range of candy colours - Vallejo Premium Airbrush Color. I use them especially black to add subtle shadows. There have been times where I have mixed or create my own candy colours using regular opaque paints.
@@harderairbrush How do they interact with water base acrylics? Until I start earning from my work, I am very limited to what I can get. I’m focussed on getting plastic for my printer, my next step once I earn will be getting one of your airbrushes. Can’t wait to get a good airbrush.
I would love to see a video of changing parts in the inside of the airbrush. Like I think using some scrubber cleaner tool, I messed up the seal that stops paint from going to the back of my Infinity, but every time I see a video about cleaning/assembling an airbrush I never see them going into detail on how to replace that piece (I know you need some special screwdriver, and that's about it).
Hey buddy - unfortunately there is so much bad information about this topic. For starters, there's really no need to totally disassemble an airbrush every time you use it. Just no need at all. People often create problems this way rather than prevent them. Words like scrubbing, reaming, picking etc are all words which have no place in cleaning an airbrush. The seal that you refer to is almost certainly NOT damaged - this is something that if left alone will likely last a decade for the average user. People always wonder why I say that, thinking that I would prefer to sell spare parts - the answer is NOPE, I'd prefer to have people enjoying airbrushing to the max, not buying parts they don't need! Why do you think that you have damaged that seal? Please could you write a detailed list of the problems you're experiencing, as this thread might be instructive to others. Thanks very much! I look forward to replying to you in detail :-)
@@harderairbrush Thank you so much for your answer! I thought I had damaged it because everytime I airbrush, I get paint flowing back on the needle pretty much all the way to the trigger (I remove the needle through the front of the airbrush, not the back, and more than half the needle always show paint). Then, if don't do anything, the needle will get stuck in place because there's paint drying on the back of the airbrush, so that's why I was using those small scrubbing things to try to clean the body. Then I learned I shouldn't be doing that to my airbrush, so I don't use the scrubby thing anymore, but I still get paint up through the needle and into the body, and I thought that maybe with the scrubby thing I have damaged the seal. Any help really appreciated!
Hey again... are you familiar with the bubble back technique? It is very effective in cleaning the full length of the needle. It also must be said that with these new airbrushes, we have moved the location of the needle seal to extremely close to the cup, where before it was further back due to machining limitations prior to our big investment in our machine shop over the last three years. Basically this means that the new generation clean much faster and more thoroughly without the needle anything more than just spraying some cleaner through. The previous gens needed more use of the bubble back technique. Essentially, pinch the aircap shut so that air back flows into the cup and agitates the cleaner. Have you tried that? Once this has been done a couple of time (pretty standard airbrush cleaning technique), then spray it all out, remove the needle, wipe it, and you should be good to go to replace it and put your airbrush to bed.
@@harderairbrush I knew about backflow, but I thought that was no good for the airbrush! I'll try that next time I clean my airbrush, thank you so much for your help!
Airbrush = Chuck Norris. Metallic Paint = everything not Chuck Norris. Throw it in there :-) absolutely ZERO danger of metallics causing any degradation to your airbrush.
Paintbrushes are made with fluffy bits from cuddly animals. Airbrushes are made with elements from the Earth's crust. No worries with metallics peeps :-)
Not really, apart from the fact that Createx has massive experience in the automotive sector re colour design, and they KNOW what really pops. Making a paint which is intended to be a "candy" isn't the same as making one which is intended to be a contract paint. The palette is the key IF you're looking to create the candy effect, in my opinion. But you can certainly use the Citadel contrast paints to test the effect :-)
Thanks for the candy paint idea...now I am intrigued. It pairs with the stencil stuff because I want to paint some Eldar and Halequin vehicles and combining stencils and candy paints seems interesting. Btw, what do you thing about using an ultrasonic cleaner to clean an airbrush? I have an Evolution and sometimes it seems to clean it perfectly but sometimes it seems to do nothing.
If you'd like to make a totally ridonkulous candy job, then hit them with a really serious silver metallic, and then mask out for the candy application over a common silver base. Kapow! Ultrasonic cleaners - they work, but I don't think you need them :-) regular cleaning works just fine.
Thanks for the tip. Sounds great. And I admit I use the ultrasonic cleaner less and less as I get more experienced both using and cleaning my airbrush.
Let me preface this by saying that the following is only my opinion - I'm not putting this out there as fact :-) I think the concept of "candy" and "contrast/ speed" paints are the same. I think that you can use the contrast paints in the same way as I described candy. BUT for the primary use of candy, which is to make this very eye-catching tint of a monochromatic base - I think that the candy paints have an edge, because the colour palette is born out of decades of experience in automotive as to what colours work best in this way. The PURPOSE of the contrast paints is not the same, and consequently their colour palette as a candy is not as well suited. However, as I'm sure you can gather, this is highly incremental!
As a fairly novice airbrush user still, and just ordered your new Ultra to try and help improve things, how do you stop inks from "flooding" on the mini? I'm quite confident at mixing paints and priming and putting on zenithol/base layers using acrylic paints etc, but it seems entirely 50:50 whenever I've tried using inks as to if they'll put a nice layer on, or if they'll flood into the recesses like a wash.
Thanks for ordering the new ULTRA! What you're describing is too much colour going on too fast. When you get your ULTRA, if you're looking to just put on a glaze with a very thin colour, take setting II and be approx a hand's width away, and keep moving - you'll notice that with all the videos, we always keep the airbrush moving - same as a paintbrush :-)
@@harderairbrush Thank you kindly for the excellent advice! I watched the vieo on how to use it, and absolutely love the guides of what setting and distance for each stage of painting, but wasn't sure where inks would fall. Will that be using the same PSI as for paints?
Generally, you'll find that thinner media will run through the airbrush a little faster than our benchmark of hobby paint thinned 1:1. Easiest solution is just to drop the psi as a speed control. So with inks, you'll probably be running anything from 15-20psi depending on the media, whereas with regular paint, you'll be around 25 or so.
Question on the Candy2.0 Createx acrylic paints. Totally different from automotive candys. However acrylics you can finish over with automotive using different metals with clear coat finish. Have you tried them? I airbrush acrylics on.y on plastics such as Lexan. What candy automotive are you using ? Thanks in advance sir!✌🏼
Hey Douglas - in the past I've used House of Kolor and Createx candies, as well as (in the real olden days) approximating candy behaviour with diluted FW Inks from Daler Rowney. If you want a solvent automotive system, it's really hard to beat House of Kolor. Totally love that range. If you want water based, very hard to beat Createx!
Hey Kevin - yes it's true. The strategy is to get as much info out there as possible as fast as possible (hence the info dump style!) and then analyse what people have responded to most. That will be our demo list - demo vids take a little more time and resource, so we want to be sure that we're making what you want to see...
Yes, just thin them. Angel Giraldez has a great new video on this topic coming out in the next few days - keep an eye out for it. His tip works really really well.
Kandy is like hard candy, not the wrapper. Like a transparent colored piece of candy. Candy apple comes to mind as there is a thick layer of transparent goodness the apple was dipped in. Candy is a transparent 'paint' not opaque. They even have kandy black now. A transparent black.
@@harderairbrush I don't think it is being compared to the candy wrapper which may or may not be made of transparent plastic. It is being compared to the _Actual_ piece of candy which isn't just any candy but the hard candy which is purely transparent all the way through. Take the candy, melt it all over your car, and you have a _candy paint job._ I suppose you could say the same for a plastic wrapper but the iconic *candy apple red* comes directly from an apple sold at carnivals (and Halloween) which has been dipped in a hardened sugar candy. ua-cam.com/video/bdBOzg3qPAs/v-deo.html Thats the best I could do to show a candy apple. This one shows candy apple over an apple green base. ua-cam.com/video/Aao6aQeOo1o/v-deo.html Neither of these vids do the candied job justice😀
Soooo what you're saying is that the candy apple is like an apple wrapped in a transparent sugar candy wrapper :-) I'm just playing! I think the point is that a candy paint system is a two step process, with the first being opaque (base) and the second being highly transparent.
Generally no. I do insist of using a spray out pot when cleaning or changing colour though - this is the most part of the overspray. However, it really depends on your work area. If it is very small with limited ventilation, I would definitely wear one.
Hey Timothy - thanks for the feedback. We DO have a strategy in this method. There is a lot of information which we can give very easily and quickly by talking - much easier to get the topics out there fast for discussion. We are evaluating the responses to the topics in the various descriptive videos to decide our priority lists for the practical demonstrations that we will create for you. Of course these take more time to do, and therefore we want to be sure to do the ones first that hold the most value. So I do agree, demonstration is better - we are working on that. In the meantime, I will try to talk less boringly 😅
Love the gray masking edge tip.
It works with other colours too ;-)
I’m new to the airbrushing world. I have just ordered the ultra 2024. Can’t wait for it to arrive. So I can’t get cracked in. These videos are absolutely fantastic and super helpful. So I would like to thank you all at Harden & Steenbeck.
Same here, have you seen dred fx …he gives some awesome tutorials
Really enjoying these short and informative videos, keep them coming
Trust me, for the guys filming me,, it's anything BUT short. Glad you're enjoying them!
top tips indeed as a car /wall painter having used H&S airbrushes for years these are the tips helpfull for the next generations
Thanks very much D
Hi, really good information! I like the candy wrapper idea.
One point to consider: Could you perhaps show some examples while explaining? It makes things far more understandable and visual. Take a stencil and show the different effects when you tilt it or spray from another angle. Same goes with the candy wrapper.
Keep making these videos😊
Thanks Mark - we will. Our strategy with this video series is to get the max amount of info our there in the fastest way possible, hence the lack of complex demos. Once we see which things people have really responded, we'll know which demo vids are of most interest. So these videos are kind of a research project for us as well, to find out what you guys really want to see in demos. They take a little longer to make, so we want to make sure that the ones we do, are the ones you want.
Good to hear. Really like that.
But what I meant though was just instead of using arms a quick use of airbrush spray. Nothing fancy. Also when mentioning the candy, just show a model on the table. Do we get a good idea of what you mean. Again nothing fancy. Hope you understand?
Candies and colored clears are so much fun! They add a whole new dimension to airbrushing paints. I've just started experimenting with colored clears and it's a blast. My 4 year old son loved a spoon I painted with a metallic titanium gold color and then sprayed clear green over it... "It looks like an apple!"
Another informative video by H&S! I absolutely love these quick videos with handy bits of information. Please keep it up!
Ah that's too funny! Candy Apple is one of the old skool famous candies from House of Kolor! (admittedly it's Candy Apple Red, but still!)
keep going with these question videos please. I am learning so so much.. Thank you
Will do Dingo :-)
As a modeller first and foremost, it is cool to see you mentioning "candy" coating... It's cool to see it on model cars, gunpla, and I can only imagine it looking cool on some space marines or any kind of robots...
OH man it would be killer on Gunpla. I haven't seen it though...
@@harderairbrush It was a trend for Sinanju and Qubeley... Perl, Red candy coat and similar. And, best gold colour I have ever seen. Any gold colour and on top of it clear yellow... Only gold looks bland after you see that combination...
Mega! Yellow on gold!!!
Personally I use the A-Stand Candy Paint Range by MIG. Easy to airbrush via my trusty Evolution. 0.4 needle, 0.8 bar pressure, very slight needle pushback. But man the Candy effect is so much more deep than the usual Clear Red/green etc over shinny metal approach. Down side of the A-Stand colors is that you can not apply this stuff easily via brush. The solvent just evaporizes under a minute and it kills any brush.
It is interesting that candy paints were mentioned for miniature painters. I often wondered why paints like the Tamiya clear range have not been used for certain OSL applications, other than their glossy finish. Candy/clear paints can be perfect for objects like lenses, eyes, gems, displays...
Thanks for that buddy!
Thank you for another great tip video. Keep up the good work!
Our pleasure!
Loving these videos! Keep them coming!
Thanks Steve - will do!
I use inks a lot on mini to do candy type over silver metallic. Works like a charm
Yes - exactly! Nice :-)
Another great video. And thanks for the heads up with candy colors. I’ll definitely plan to pick one up and experiment with some tints on my miniatures. Keep up the great work folks!
Let us know how you get on Curt!
I’m really enjoying your videos
Thank you Clive!
Great tips ! THANK YOU
Thanks for joining us!
I work in the automotive sector so I'm familiar with candies. I experimented with a space marine using a chrome base with blue candy over and it gave an interesting effect.
I think all Space Marine armour is probably candy effect when it's new. Otherwise, what's the point of being a Space Marine if you don't get cool gear?
On your comments on “Candy” colors, I used 2 colors of metallic under my airbrushed contrast/speed paint to get both a zenithal effect and a metallic effect using the translucency of the speed paint. This worked on both figure and larger models to great effect.
That's it man! Beautiful!
So looking forward to my new Ultra
We're looking forward to sending it to you! Please let us know how you get on :-)
Never tried an airbrush, but am considering ordering one after I found it on squidmars channel. And this channel is giving great tips on how to use them!
Hey there - glad you're considering it! Airbrushing is easier than it haws ever been thanks to the great airbrush paints that we have available nowadays. Used to be really hard in the old days! And unfortunately that has stuck for longer than it's actually true.
@@harderairbrush watched the video where you paint for 30min, and show how easy it was to clean, and I was sold. It has always been the cutback for me, when it seemed more time went into cleaning the brush instead of using it!
So I have order my first airbrush! I can see you recommend sparmax compressors, may I ask why? Are they any quieter than their competitors? =)
Thanks!
Yes, we want to be airbrushing, not cleaning - agreed! Thanks for joining us! Sparmax, we recommend because we've known the product for a long time, and know that they last for years. As you probably know, there are similar products out there, which may be very good, but I just don't have enough experience of them to say that I *know* they are. Sparmax, I know, are reasonably quiet, reasonably priced, and are top drawer on quality.
woah thats a great masking tip
Yes, it really works well :-)
Enjoying your videos & like the Q+A & How-To explanations.
You mentioned the Createx brand of candy colours, however Vallejo have their own range of candy colours - Vallejo Premium Airbrush Color. I use them especially black to add subtle shadows.
There have been times where I have mixed or create my own candy colours using regular opaque paints.
Thanks for adding that! I've not used them personally yet, but the new Vallejo paints generally go really beautifully through the airbrush.
Candy might work really well for a brightly painted power weapon.
100% - give it a try and let us know :-)
@@harderairbrush Ordered a bottle of Createx Auto-Air Colors Candy2o Caribe Blue to try out. We'll see how it goes.
Thank you, I will definitely try those automotive paint on my terrain for far away planets fauna.
This is what I love about telling this stuff to creatives... never would have thought of that application, but now that you mention it - perfect!
@@harderairbrush How do they interact with water base acrylics? Until I start earning from my work, I am very limited to what I can get. I’m focussed on getting plastic for my printer, my next step once I earn will be getting one of your airbrushes. Can’t wait to get a good airbrush.
Water based acrylic is pretty much the staple airbrush paint now.
I would love to see a video of changing parts in the inside of the airbrush. Like I think using some scrubber cleaner tool, I messed up the seal that stops paint from going to the back of my Infinity, but every time I see a video about cleaning/assembling an airbrush I never see them going into detail on how to replace that piece (I know you need some special screwdriver, and that's about it).
Hey buddy - unfortunately there is so much bad information about this topic. For starters, there's really no need to totally disassemble an airbrush every time you use it. Just no need at all. People often create problems this way rather than prevent them. Words like scrubbing, reaming, picking etc are all words which have no place in cleaning an airbrush. The seal that you refer to is almost certainly NOT damaged - this is something that if left alone will likely last a decade for the average user. People always wonder why I say that, thinking that I would prefer to sell spare parts - the answer is NOPE, I'd prefer to have people enjoying airbrushing to the max, not buying parts they don't need! Why do you think that you have damaged that seal? Please could you write a detailed list of the problems you're experiencing, as this thread might be instructive to others. Thanks very much! I look forward to replying to you in detail :-)
@@harderairbrush Thank you so much for your answer! I thought I had damaged it because everytime I airbrush, I get paint flowing back on the needle pretty much all the way to the trigger (I remove the needle through the front of the airbrush, not the back, and more than half the needle always show paint). Then, if don't do anything, the needle will get stuck in place because there's paint drying on the back of the airbrush, so that's why I was using those small scrubbing things to try to clean the body. Then I learned I shouldn't be doing that to my airbrush, so I don't use the scrubby thing anymore, but I still get paint up through the needle and into the body, and I thought that maybe with the scrubby thing I have damaged the seal.
Any help really appreciated!
Hey again... are you familiar with the bubble back technique? It is very effective in cleaning the full length of the needle. It also must be said that with these new airbrushes, we have moved the location of the needle seal to extremely close to the cup, where before it was further back due to machining limitations prior to our big investment in our machine shop over the last three years. Basically this means that the new generation clean much faster and more thoroughly without the needle anything more than just spraying some cleaner through. The previous gens needed more use of the bubble back technique. Essentially, pinch the aircap shut so that air back flows into the cup and agitates the cleaner. Have you tried that? Once this has been done a couple of time (pretty standard airbrush cleaning technique), then spray it all out, remove the needle, wipe it, and you should be good to go to replace it and put your airbrush to bed.
@@harderairbrush I knew about backflow, but I thought that was no good for the airbrush! I'll try that next time I clean my airbrush, thank you so much for your help!
How does metallic paints/inks affect the airbrush? Specifically the needle? Would it degrade faster than usual, scratches and stuff?
That's a good question.
I know that metallic paints are killers for normal brushes but what about airbrushes?
leaving a comment to make this go up.
Airbrush = Chuck Norris.
Metallic Paint = everything not Chuck Norris.
Throw it in there :-) absolutely ZERO danger of metallics causing any degradation to your airbrush.
Paintbrushes are made with fluffy bits from cuddly animals. Airbrushes are made with elements from the Earth's crust. No worries with metallics peeps :-)
Great video, thank you! Is there a huge difference between those candy paints and citadel’s contrast paints (which are also quite transparent)?
Not really, apart from the fact that Createx has massive experience in the automotive sector re colour design, and they KNOW what really pops. Making a paint which is intended to be a "candy" isn't the same as making one which is intended to be a contract paint. The palette is the key IF you're looking to create the candy effect, in my opinion. But you can certainly use the Citadel contrast paints to test the effect :-)
Can you teach Squidmar how to candy paint with the inew ultra Sounds interesting for vehicles.
Maybe eldarr Harlequins?
Me? Squidmar? Teach?
@harderairbrush Absolutely!. If it doesn't go to plan introduce him to your parts naming committee.
Thanks for the candy paint idea...now I am intrigued. It pairs with the stencil stuff because I want to paint some Eldar and Halequin vehicles and combining stencils and candy paints seems interesting.
Btw, what do you thing about using an ultrasonic cleaner to clean an airbrush? I have an Evolution and sometimes it seems to clean it perfectly but sometimes it seems to do nothing.
If you'd like to make a totally ridonkulous candy job, then hit them with a really serious silver metallic, and then mask out for the candy application over a common silver base. Kapow! Ultrasonic cleaners - they work, but I don't think you need them :-) regular cleaning works just fine.
Thanks for the tip. Sounds great.
And I admit I use the ultrasonic cleaner less and less as I get more experienced both using and cleaning my airbrush.
You mentioned inks and candy. Popular now amount miniature painters are 'contrat' or 'speed paints'. Any best practices fo them?
Let me preface this by saying that the following is only my opinion - I'm not putting this out there as fact :-) I think the concept of "candy" and "contrast/ speed" paints are the same. I think that you can use the contrast paints in the same way as I described candy. BUT for the primary use of candy, which is to make this very eye-catching tint of a monochromatic base - I think that the candy paints have an edge, because the colour palette is born out of decades of experience in automotive as to what colours work best in this way. The PURPOSE of the contrast paints is not the same, and consequently their colour palette as a candy is not as well suited. However, as I'm sure you can gather, this is highly incremental!
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👍 back :-)
As a fairly novice airbrush user still, and just ordered your new Ultra to try and help improve things, how do you stop inks from "flooding" on the mini? I'm quite confident at mixing paints and priming and putting on zenithol/base layers using acrylic paints etc, but it seems entirely 50:50 whenever I've tried using inks as to if they'll put a nice layer on, or if they'll flood into the recesses like a wash.
Thanks for ordering the new ULTRA! What you're describing is too much colour going on too fast. When you get your ULTRA, if you're looking to just put on a glaze with a very thin colour, take setting II and be approx a hand's width away, and keep moving - you'll notice that with all the videos, we always keep the airbrush moving - same as a paintbrush :-)
@@harderairbrush Thank you kindly for the excellent advice! I watched the vieo on how to use it, and absolutely love the guides of what setting and distance for each stage of painting, but wasn't sure where inks would fall. Will that be using the same PSI as for paints?
Generally, you'll find that thinner media will run through the airbrush a little faster than our benchmark of hobby paint thinned 1:1. Easiest solution is just to drop the psi as a speed control. So with inks, you'll probably be running anything from 15-20psi depending on the media, whereas with regular paint, you'll be around 25 or so.
@@harderairbrush when using a candy or ink shouldn’t a carrier be used ?
Not sure what you mean by a carrier?
Question on the Candy2.0 Createx acrylic paints. Totally different from automotive candys. However acrylics you can finish over with automotive using different metals with clear coat finish. Have you tried them? I airbrush acrylics on.y on plastics such as Lexan. What candy automotive are you using ? Thanks in advance sir!✌🏼
Hey Douglas - in the past I've used House of Kolor and Createx candies, as well as (in the real olden days) approximating candy behaviour with diluted FW Inks from Daler Rowney. If you want a solvent automotive system, it's really hard to beat House of Kolor. Totally love that range. If you want water based, very hard to beat Createx!
Good video's, but could be enhanced a lot with visual examples
Hey Kevin - yes it's true. The strategy is to get as much info out there as possible as fast as possible (hence the info dump style!) and then analyse what people have responded to most. That will be our demo list - demo vids take a little more time and resource, so we want to be sure that we're making what you want to see...
I had this video saved for about half a year to hear something on wearable masks. They had me in the first half, not gonna lie…
Can I use shade paints from Citadel with my Ultra 2024?
Yes, just thin them. Angel Giraldez has a great new video on this topic coming out in the next few days - keep an eye out for it. His tip works really really well.
Thanks! Thin a shade paint? Is that even possible? Look forward to the video!
@@harderairbrush did this video come out? I can’t find it?
My apologies - it is scheduled for the New Year I believe...
Kandy is like hard candy, not the wrapper. Like a transparent colored piece of candy. Candy apple comes to mind as there is a thick layer of transparent goodness the apple was dipped in.
Candy is a transparent 'paint' not opaque.
They even have kandy black now. A transparent black.
Yes, like a transparent coloured wrapper :-) Hopefully what I said did not in any imply that candy paints are opaque!
@@harderairbrush
I don't think it is being compared to the candy wrapper which may or may not be made of transparent plastic. It is being compared to the _Actual_ piece of candy which isn't just any candy but the hard candy which is purely transparent all the way through.
Take the candy, melt it all over your car, and you have a _candy paint job._
I suppose you could say the same for a plastic wrapper but the iconic *candy apple red* comes directly from an apple sold at carnivals (and Halloween) which has been dipped in a hardened sugar candy.
ua-cam.com/video/bdBOzg3qPAs/v-deo.html
Thats the best I could do to show a candy apple.
This one shows candy apple over an apple green base.
ua-cam.com/video/Aao6aQeOo1o/v-deo.html
Neither of these vids do the candied job justice😀
Soooo what you're saying is that the candy apple is like an apple wrapped in a transparent sugar candy wrapper :-) I'm just playing! I think the point is that a candy paint system is a two step process, with the first being opaque (base) and the second being highly transparent.
Do you wear a mask while airbrushing? Is it necessary nowdays?
Generally no. I do insist of using a spray out pot when cleaning or changing colour though - this is the most part of the overspray. However, it really depends on your work area. If it is very small with limited ventilation, I would definitely wear one.
demonstration better than description and let us imagine how it is. Keep talking talking without seeing how is the result, is boring
Hey Timothy - thanks for the feedback. We DO have a strategy in this method. There is a lot of information which we can give very easily and quickly by talking - much easier to get the topics out there fast for discussion. We are evaluating the responses to the topics in the various descriptive videos to decide our priority lists for the practical demonstrations that we will create for you. Of course these take more time to do, and therefore we want to be sure to do the ones first that hold the most value. So I do agree, demonstration is better - we are working on that. In the meantime, I will try to talk less boringly 😅
You can change your accent all you want but we still know you tried to kill John McClane
Yes, but do you sympathise with my character more now that you know I like to paint??? ;-)