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Thunderhawk round 2 part 3


Well thats thunderhawk 2 me 0.

Managed to get a nice red base coat on through the airbrush. Masked up the wings to do the black details and there was no paint coming out the airbrush. So I disassembled the air brush and the nozzle was so jammed up only about 1/3 of the needle was showing through the nozzle! So after a bit of cleaning I returned to the thawk, sprayed over what i had masked out, removed the tape and.... paint seepage! I left some lovely tape lines aswell. I tried to sand these off but ended up damaging the paint work underneath instead. So I think this will be another case of strip it down and start again. 

While I was debating weather or not to float test the thawk in the river I started on my chaos guy, he seemes to have come out pretty good so far so at least it wasn't a totally wasted weekend! 

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Shard of Magnus

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That’s a rough go with the hawk.  Just keep reminding yourself that third time’s a charm!

 

What do you use for masking? I am using Taimya masking tape when stippling or sponging. Haven’t tried it with airbrushing as I have only really used my airbrush for priming.

W.A.Rorie

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That sucks about the Thunderhawk! I just wen through the same issue with my airbrushes. I am glad to see you are pushing through.

Gizmo

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Thanks, I was using AK 6mm tape which was a pain to get to actually stick down so in hindsight this result was probably expected,  however, now I have to strip it again I can do a better job on my very lazy gap filling so swings and roundabouts I suppose! To be honest im really enjoying using the airbrush but it is quite labour intense having to clean it out after every use, and I can see the cost of airbrush cleaner steadily spiralling!

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