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Initial 1300 point W40K army

Airbrush Painting Safety

This is a 3M respirator. After about two hours of painting with red paint, the INNER FILTER had a red stain on the outer side, fortunately the inside looked clean.

This is pretty strong evidence that spraying without a respirator is a horrible idea. It’s also convinced me to pick up a vented spray booth when I have a chance.

Jump pack painting rack

I had previously built a ‘spraying rack’ to get the first rhino I built up off the bottom of my ghetto card board airbrush booth. It looks kinda’ impossible to paint the shoulder pads of the marines with the jump packs on, so for now I’m going to paint them separately… to make that easier and to ensure that I get the airbrush highlight angle correct, I added on to my airbrush paint sprue framework. The jump packs themselves are attached to the sprues with poster-tack, so should be easy to remove them once they have the base coat and highlight coat in place.

Captain E. Dominic Darius

Primer Comparison on Warmachine Trenchers

Primer Comparison on miniatures

Trying out four major brands of primer on Warmachine trenchers

I ran out of the same pose so the armory primer is on a different pose. I was applied using the same technique, just minutes apart. The armory finish was very dull and obscured more detail than the other three. It was different enough that I painted a second model after shaking the can for an extra few minutes to ensure it wasn’t a paint temperature/mix issue.

While I’ve since purchased a airbrush and basecoat my models with ‘Creatix Wicked Detail Color,’ if/when I use spray paint, I’d recommend Rustoleum Universal, GW, & Board to Pieces equally, and I would advise against Armory.

Trencher Master Gunner

Trencher Cannon Crew