For Attendees of Thin Air Nats ONLY Friday 9 am - 12 pm Other supplies and equipment provided. Equipment packages also available! 60 minutes of Hands On Airbrush practice. Basic operation and Maintenance. Use our equipment or get trained on your own NEW equipment by adding an Equipment Training! Airbrush 101 with your Three packages to choose from. Start the day with learing to use a great airbrush then spend the rest of the morning learning to use the Driscoll Fleshtone set and other paints to create virtually any human skin color on a resin figure you get to keep!. Learn color application techniques you can use for every human figure you paint. Add the Eciplse HP-CS double action graivty feed airbrush and Smart Jet Compressor to your modeling arsenal. Get used to the equipment with our qualified Iwata instructor, Mark Krabbenhoft 9 am - 12 pm Friday August 16 Limited to the first 12 paid students. The last day to register is July 31, 2013.

Resin Kit: 1/8 Eve from BTTG Model Kit Company Eve painted in several different visions. Eve and 180 minutes of instruction All other equipment and supplies provided for your use in class Eclipse ECL 4500 HP-CS Airbrush ComArt Driscoll Fleshtone Paint Set Cleaning Station, 6 empty 1 oz bottles, 4 oz ComArt cleaner Smart Jet IS 850 Compressor Check your savings here Back to the Top 60 minute Hands-On introduction to airbrushing class for 12 stuents. We provide Eclipse HP-CS gravity feed airbrushes and ComArt paints for use in the class. All you need is willingness to learn. Sign up at the TAG Team Hobbies tables A6 - A8 in the Sprue Bros Vendor Room for gaurranteed seating. Otherwise, first come first served in the Iwata Hands On Airbrush Room. No Charge for Thin Air Attendees Thurs 3 pm     Fri 1 pm & 2:30 pm Sat 9 am & 10:30 am Add a Paint Set to ANY PROGRAM $20 One hour Airbrush 101 with the Iwata Equipment Package of your choice.

Equipment delivered to you in class. Thurs 3 pm     Fri 1 pm & 2:30 pm     Sat 9 am & 10:30 am NEO H 4500 Airbrush Two 1 oz ComArt Paint Six 1 oz empty bottles 4 oz Iwata Cleaner Cleaning Station, ComArt Paints, Empty Bottles and Cleaner Smart Jet Plus Tubular Compressor Add a Paint Set to ANY PACKAGE $20 2013 Suggested Retail Pricesjual air purifier untuk ruangan Eclipse HP- CS ECL 4500groupon for air duct cleaning NEO for Iwata HP-CN N 4500air purifier humidifier walmart Ninja Jet Compressor IS 35 Smart Jet IS 850 Smart Jet Plus Tubular IS 875HT Steve Driscoll Fleshtone Set 8 100 14 Deluxe Table Top Cleaning Station NAC 201 ComArt 1 oz Transparent and Opaque Paint

Bottles 1 0z Solvent Proof Dropper Cap Iwata Airbrush Cleaner 4 oz Back to the TopApart from the Airbrush, the choice of air supply is the most important item of equipment, as this determines what kind of work can be done; i.e. large areas of basic coverage, or small precise lines, etc., or indeed both. As a true entry into airbrushing a kit is available which includes a can of compressed air and a regulator, I would only recommend this purely as an economy measure, as despite good results being achievable, the pressure can fluctuate and a steady reliable air supply can not be maintained. On the plus side, air cans can allow use of the airbrush, even if no electricity is available, and cans are easy to store due to their size. I began my early airbrushing days with cans and from experience I can only suggest that it is really a false economy in the long term, and that buying a small compressor is really a good investment if you intend to progress in this aspect of the hobby.

This brings us to the entry model compressor in the Iwata range, the Silver jet, which is a compact unit and designed to run constantly, at fairly low pressures (10-18psi) that is adequate for most applications and has a pressure adjustment via a knob and a pressure gauge. Despite being the smallest and least expensive compressor in the Iwata line-up, the Silver jet runs relatively quietly, especially compared to the first compressor I owned (a 'Speedy Sprayer' which sounded like a motor bike) and is a good performer that works well with all of the airbrushes in the Iwata range. The next compressor in the range, which probably offers the best value, is the Sprint Jet compressor, a compact unit, which can be regulated via a bleed valve, which is on the base of its own moisture trap. It can give a supply of air at working pressures between 1-30psi, which I found to be much easier to use than its smaller brother (Silver jet) as I tend to airbrush at around 25psi, and for thicker mediums the higher pressure allows a greater coverage of larger areas.

The Sprint Jet, like the Silver jet, runs constantly as it delivers its supply of air, but I would say that it is slightly quieter. I have been using the next model up from the Sprint jet (the Smart jet) for about six years now, and I was more than happy to use this model; the only major difference is that the Smart jet has the benefit of a cut-out valve to enable a constant pressure to be maintained and therefore doesn't need to run continuously. There are two other compressors in the range, which are both slight variations on the same basic unit and the only one I haven't tried is the Power Jet Pro. I found them all to be easily capable of the tasks that I have set them; it would be difficult for me to say which one is the best, as all are easy to use and very well made. Modellers will have different criteria for their own specific use, but as I have used the Smart Jet for so long, and have enjoyed it, I would most probably choose this as a personal favourite. I could write pages about the ins and outs, and pros and cons of these items of equipment, but I thought what would be fair would be a kind of field test and evaluation whilst having a bit of fun building a model or two.

I decided to set up the dual-action Revolution HP-CR with its 0.5mm nozzle and the Sprint Jet compressor, and let my daughter Holley airbrush a 1:72 scale kit that she had been waiting to build, and later I would build and paint Tamiya's 1:48 scale Sherman Mark Ic Firefly as well as AFV Club's 1:48 scale Late Tiger I using the dual action Revolution HP-BR with its 0.3mm nozzle. As Holley has watched me paint, she has wanted to have a go herself and with amazing results she achieved a Gold Medal at Euro Militaire two years ago. I must have been the proudest Dad alive! Since then she has used my Iwata Eclipse under my supervision to airbrush both a 1:35 scale Kubelwagen and a 1:48 scale Schwimmwagen. I thought a small scale T-34 kit from Revell (an ex-Matchbox kit) would be an ideal project for her to build, plus the added interest of the diorama base. Once Holley had assembled the T-34, excluding the tracks and the turret-mounted machine gun, I thinned some suitable paint for her;

I chose Lifecolor UA083 German Tank Green, which although not a Russian colour looked about right and this was thinned using the Media Airbrush cleaner supplied. Although not designed for this use, I find that an Acrylic thinner is better than just water, and also binds the pigment. Holley then took hold of the airbrush and carefully sprayed the entire tank, giving it an even coverage of the green. The Revolution HP CR. like all of the Revolution range has a chromed body, but the CR has a large paint cup with a tightly fitting lid, which was a great advantage to Holley, as she didn't need to worry about spilling paint. Holley seemed to get the hang of the Revolution quite quickly and her favourite trick is to air dry the paint by blasting the model with just air, by only pushing down on the trigger! This is something I do quite often that she has picked up. The only problem that I noticed was that the airbrush's trigger and size of the body was a little big for Holley's young fingers and she struggled a little.

Once the base green had dried I explained the virtues of whitewash winter camouflage to Holley and let her apply some random lines of white paint to the hull and turret of the T-34. Despite initial teething problems, she soon got really engrossed in the white washing process and managed to control the size of the lines quite well. Unfortunately, with a small vehicle of this scale it didn't take long to complete and as her technique improved it was time to stop before all of the green was obscured. A few more solid white lines were randomly painted to simulate brush strokes to complete the whitewashed effect and set aside to dry. The tracks supplied were the rubber band type, but these were moulded in bright silver vinyl/rubber, and so Holley sprayed them thoroughly using Lifecolor Black, mixed with a little brown. When they were fully dry I showed Holley that if the paint was lightly rubbed with a dry cloth that it would remove the paint from the tracks and give worn 'highlights' as the underlying silver showed through.

As Holley created her latest masterpiece, the Sprint Jet compressor continued to run and we forgot it was there, the sound not being a distraction at all and the pressure continued to be maintained at a good working level. A 'mud' colour was mixed from the Lifecolor range and Holley relished adding the mud to the tank's underside, she was by now getting to grips with the control of the brush and managed to apply just the right amount of grime to the right areas including the wheels and tracks. While the mud colour was loaded in the colour cup, the diorama base was randomly airbrushed, with a little variation of colour added by mixing other browns and black, etc. The broken fence on the base was airbrushed in 'shades of wood' and highlighted with a lighter brown, along the length of each individual plank! By this stage Holley had gained a remarkable amount of control compared to her initial attempts, and she really surprised me what she could do in a fairly short time with an inexpensive kit.