Luft46's Blog

Got both the boat and plane primered last night.

Over the last year or so I’ve struggled with airbrushing. Often not able to get any paint out or just way too much. I’ve done quite a few kits that have stopped when they were ready to paint. Any kits I’ve finished have been single colour mostly via rattle can.

I’ve sought help with this but without any success. On a friend’s recommendation I bought a cheap airbrush again. This came with three needles with one already fitted. This is the thickest one.

I set up today with about 22 psi and a 50/50 mix of paint and thinner with a little bit of flow improver. I sprayed from a bit further away than usual with a light coat then flipped the model through 90 degrees and finished off in this way. Lots of light coats from further away has given a much better finish and I noticed when I moved closer it tended to puddle a little.

The end result is a paint job I am happy with which has left me in a much better place.

In other news I’m still working on the Ta Go and now adding some brass bits after adding the undercarriage struts.

The padding in the cockpit is for when I finally get to doing the undercoat.

The USV has also now had the top deck added but it’s a bit on the back burner and still needs a few PSR items fixed.

On the strength of good results with my airbrushing I went to my local HS and got the below in the larger size containers. It’s certainly cheaper with the bigger bottles.

On that note I’m off to Japan soon so any updates in the next few weeks will be from there. I may buy a few kits there but as my interests are not the usual Tamigawa stuff I’m not sure how many that will be.