03-18-2023, 05:48 AM | #1 |
Newbie Join Date: Nov 2022 Location: Germany
Posts: 14
| Airbrushing hard bodies
Does anyone have experience in airbrushing hard bodies? I’ve always used Tamiya rattle cans but they’re getting too expensive and create a lot of waste. I have a bunch of Proline Airbrush paints laying around, and wondered if this would adhere.
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03-18-2023, 07:52 AM | #2 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2021 Location: in the Canyon
Posts: 377
| Re: Airbrushing hard bodies
ABS is a whole lot easier to paint than polycarbonate. You can paint ABS with anything you want, so long as you put down some type of primer/adhesion promoter first. I can't speak to the Pro-Line paints, I refise to pay that kind of obscene markup. I've used multi-surface craft paints that are $1.50 a bottle with good results. |
03-18-2023, 08:40 AM | #3 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2020 Location: Drums
Posts: 572
| Re: Airbrushing hard bodies
At the very least, just buy the Tamiya TS clear, decant it into a jar to use in your airbrush. Use this to seal/protect over what ever paint your use as your base color. Just do a test first to make sure the two paints don't have a reaction. Also, as DrI said, make sure you start with a primer first.
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03-18-2023, 01:36 PM | #4 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Douglassville, PA
Posts: 4,227
| Re: Airbrushing hard bodies
I used Createx paints with a little of their urathane mixed in for some indoor body painting. It was $25 for 6 bottles (primary colors) IIRC. Seemed to work well, it sprayed very nicely. This is the basic blue |
03-18-2023, 03:22 PM | #5 |
Newbie Join Date: Nov 2022 Location: Germany
Posts: 14
| Re: Airbrushing hard bodies
I appreciate the advice from all you guys! I will definitely try airbrushing my next rig, and I'll be sure to use some type of primer first. I'm assuming the Tamiya X series bottled paint can also be airbrushed? @OSRC that is a pretty sweet rig you have there, Createx definitely has a nice range of colors id like to try out.
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