Essential Paint Preparation For Airbrushing
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- What do you need to know before picking up your airbrush to paint?
This video is part of the Airbrushing Need To Know Basics. Where we answer your commonly asked questions to help bring your art to life when using your airbrush.
If you are a beginner or intermediate airbrush artist, using your airbrush for miniature painting, canvas or even makeup then this video will be perfect for you.
If you have a question on airbrushing then please leave a comment below and we can help answer it in another video.
How do you prepare for your Airbrushing?
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Thank you for your advice I love the way you explain things
Thanks Mike!
I absolutely love these videos. They are really so helpful.
Thank you very much!
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
Much appreciated Mark.
Thank you for these videos, you are an officer, a scholar and a gentleman. Should paint be thinned more if you are using a 0.2mm nozzle compared to a 0.4mm nozzle. Thank you for your help, we really appreciate it
Thank you brother but I must inform you that I’ve not earned the title of officer 😊 paint thinning generally works great at 1:1 and beyond that it depends on your goals… for very tightly defined detail you might thin less with a smaller head, or for more control over transparency you might thin more with a larger head! Once you’ve established a baseline for understanding a ratio that works for airbrushing generally then you will start to understand that different paint preps are more about creative choices, than equipment. Hope that helps point you in the right direction!
Thanks for an excellent and easily understood tutorial on mixing airbrush paints! Keeping things simple makes great sense.
Keep making the videos, they’re full of great information that everyone can use!
Really useful tips. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you Paolo!
I'm absolutely brand new to airbrushing and really appreciate these videos. The whole thing is a bit daunting when starting from scratch, so I'm finding these basic principles extremely helpful. Thanks. (and yes, I did buy an H&S airbrush)
Hey there - thanks so much for the comment - we appreciate you choosing to buy a Harder & Steenbeck! Any suggestions on other topics which you would like to see covered? Which aspect of airbrushing did you find the most daunting to start with?
@@harderairbrush oh I literally put some paint through one for the first time yesterday, so I'll have to see how I go and get back to you. I'm using these videos to avoid making basic errors to start with. I'll let you know when I've moved on to more advanced errors 😂
Making advanced errors is called being creative :-)
Thanks a lot for this informtaive series of videos they are really helpful and help debunk some urban legends.
I'd like to practice with thicker paint to get textures on miniatures fabrics, or freckles on skin. I would be interested in a short demo or tutorial.
I keep meaning to do textures, and keep forgetting! Soon!
These videos are great and I love my infinity airbrush fro H&S>
Thank you Simon!
I know you've insisted a few times to match the flow improver and cleaner to the paint manufacturers, but most of us mini painters use multiple brands, and not all brands have a flow improver or cleaner (looking at you, Pro Acryl). So does it really matter *that* much?
As an aside, I purchased a Testors Aztek A470 Deluxe about 10-15 years ago (highly recommended, lots of features, yadda yadda) and I always thought I was the problem, so resisted using it. I'd clean it, everything would run clear, and I'd put it away. Next time I use it, it would spit and bubble. Turns out, the bloody thing constantly gets paint behind the nozzle and pot mechanism, requiring a full teardown every single time (which is not easy to do). The other night, I'd finally had enough, yeeted the damn thing, and ordered myself an Evo 2024 CRPlus. It came yesterday and it's like a revelation! THIS is what airbrushing is supposed to be like! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!
Great video! Is it true that putting the thinner in the cup before the paint reduces the probability of clogging or is it just a myth?
YES it's true! Imagine the small paint channel to the nozzle - if you put the unthinned paint in first, and the thinner after, no matter how well you mix it, you're unlikely to get to that tiny volume of unthinned paint which has first gone into that fine paint channel at the bottom of the cup. Thinner first, always!
This series is super informative and genuinely nice to watch! Grüße aus Berlin! Way too happy with my infinity giraldez cr plus, can’t recommend it enough! Superb craftsmanship and fine, precise product. Keep it up! This series is 😘🤌🏼
Thank you so much! Very happy that our impact has been positive for you!