ep218 - modelmaking fundamentals: good spray discipline

in which we see that perfect practices produce prodigiously pretty paint.

[@northsongs]

I can't believe that I've been getting back into modeling for the last year and haven't come across your videos before. You do such an excellent job with your videos! I learn something every time I watch. Plus, the side benefits are your occasional expressions, such as "all of the paint particles kinda join in a big hand-holding ceremony ...". People learn better when they are laughing ... You, my friend, are an awesome teacher! Thanks for sharing this info.

[@alec_f1]

I have stumbled through many learning curves with airbrushes in my life. One thing that taught me a lot was using MRP. It showed me the consistency that all my paint should have. Now, I realize I was blowing some thick butter through my fumbling days in the early 90's. So many mistakes - my technique was medieval. I was a a brusher when I was a kid in the late 70's and 80's. Man, I've come very far. Thank God for KZbin. Oh, and guys like Will and Matt Mac Dougal.

[@jamesmhebert]

Alec F1 What’s MRP?

[@alec_f1]

@@jamesmhebert It's their short acronym for the Mr. Paint brand line of paints. It's a true laquer that is made in the Czech Republic. Will talks about it all the time and you can see bottles of it behind him on the shelf. It's $7 bucks a bottle, but you get 30mils (just over an ounce) of paint that is 100% ready to shoot through an airbrush and 100% reliable. Hobbyworld-usa.com is pretty much the only importer here in the US, so they are always backordered and late on getting it in and shipped. But that paint is absolute gold! Will has videos on his channel about it. Search for MRP Mr. Paint and you can find info.

[@kellyknott4201]

Excellent run through on an important subject. The wing root dusting problem is a good example of understanding a rule so when you have to break it you know the consequences and can accommodate any new problem.

[@zanda677]

We do overlap but first coat is always thin, that helps with adhesion on next and subsequent coats plus we tack cloth everything down to reduce dust particles. Good advice 👍👍

[@WADIII]

Damn! You covered a lot of issues I have experienced. Thanks for the explanations and tips for fixing.

[@brown-eyedman4040]

Thanks for another great video. When I was learing to paint in a Paint Shop, I learned the smooth continuos stroke you described. The only way to get smooth, shiny paint. I also lerned that orange peel on autos came from painting wet and dyring fast, like under the 'french fry lights).

[@immanutt4442]

Thanks a mint for another great tutorial !!!

[@mrstecks]

Thanks Will, for another great and informative video. I'm still working on my spray discipline. I usually start off a painting session using some of the techniques you have demonstrated, but then half-way through I'll realize I've reverted to my previous, poor techniques... especially spraying at weird angles. Arghhh!

[@lawrencebrewer8769]

Excellent info for me the noob. Thank you

[@andyjones6995]

great video Will, I've been modelling again for about 7 years now and have learned so much from your videos. I love your scientific approach and presentation style. Your paint chemistry video was fab! My wife told me I was just sad for enjoying a video about paint🤣 but it was fantastic! I really enjoy your style of teaching too, love it. Much love back from the UK.

[@Modellbauhandwerker]

Great video. Very much informations. It is so interesting. I love your videos. Greetings from germany, mate.✌

[@briansrcadventures1316]

A useful video to watch, spray technique is something I should work on!

[@scaleartsg]

ive been model building since the 90s and sometimes i wonder why my painted surfaces sometimes dried rough. Now I know! Thanks for this!

[@RobPearlman]

Thanks for this. I really struggled to understand what Mission Models mean when they say "Light wet coats", your demo helped.

[@hollowpoint1057]

The wing root tip is gold. I ruined a great camo paint job due to a fuzzy looking pre-decal clear coat.

[@wudbcarmodeller2713]

Good tips on airbrush use. A tip is never wasted. Thank you.

[@dznr723]

Great video, thanks!

[@wwkdiecastmore5647]

Good video, well done, some great information!...Bill

[@spikeevans1488]

Well organized presentation. Kudos to you.

[@skimmer8774]

Very,very helpful. The need to spray at a slight angle in a boxed in area news to me but I'm doing it with better results. Thank you.

[@AlbertD711]

This really helps me. Thank you.

[@Hurtone]

Thank you Will!

[@gregoryamer]

Very good. Thank you for the lesson. I usually end up with a rough textured finish. I’m thinking it’s several problems on my part, not thinned enough, sprayed too dry, poor spraying angles. This gives me some good ideas to get better.

[@leebarlow3911]

Very informative mate thanks for sharing

[@jacopor.grandis8848]

I really enjoyed this "six P" video: thank you, it is definitely instructive!

[@kevinm3751]

Spot on as always, great tips and many that I am constantly practicing. I dont care who you are, if you dont use an airbrush like a job it is easy for those that do know good rules to miss step, so thanks for the reminders. Care to share your Stynylrez mix ratio of rust and black? More curious but interested nonetheless?

[@MrCB357]

Now I know what I’ve been doing wrong and finally how to fix it ... the old wing root fuck up issue 👍🏻

[@IcarusIcarus76]

Great video, pls try to make a video on how to airbrush lacquers with the fan cap of that airbrush, right pressure etc

[@StudioLaMagica]

Great. Thanks!

[@soupfork2105]

More modelers need to see this. Many of them use their airbrush like a five year old with a colouring book :)

[@SILI0001]

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed with the lessons. I have a petition: is it possible to enable automatic subtitles. I can see that in the other videos is enabled :)

[@jiminboo]

Thanks for making this video Will. The gunpla guys are especially notoriously guilty of just waving the AB around ad nauseum instead of using uniform and controlled strokes when doing base coats, priming, and clear coats. I’ve seen this way too many times.

[@franco3584]

Except "Jenic" the Guy is a Master.

[@parnashwind]

So true, a lot of people just jerk their airbrushes around randomly and showing bad examples for beginners to learn from - dont keep your airbrush on the same spot, do the secret spasm spraying technique and pray that the finish will turn out fine. =.=

[@madmikedds]

Thanks Will

[@dixieflyer500]

Will, thanks for this, I learned quite a bit. My return to the hobby has gone in fits and starts, and I have to keep revisiting skills and techniques all over again. I haven't messed with my airbrush in a few years, and I'm almost at the point of a build that's been stalled forever that I'm about to start painting. so this has been quite useful for me. I do have a somewhat related question: I usually wear a chin beard/goatee, and in the autumn grow my beard out for needed chinsulation. :) Being a fellow bearded one, how do you deal with using a respirator while airbrushing and having a beard?

[@barpfoto]

i'm not as safety conscious as i should be......i just don't worry about it.

[@tehbh1688]

Mr Pattison, halo from Malaysia - Far East. I stumbled onto your videos and after watching several I kinda like the way you present your subject matter. Just asking if you have made any videos on homebrew airbrush cleaner and airbrush thinner respectively. By the way which part of U.S.A. are you located ? Spread the Love ! Harry

[@hl1796]

basic, yet so many get it wrong, thank Will

[@Steve-dr7rr]

Can o ask what airbrush you use thanks

[@snickles4499]

so how do you keep that paint in your cup for so long without having it dry in your paint cup? and how do you clean the primer you were using?

[@barpfoto]

oh, stynlrez skins up quickly in the cup, but lacquer thinner cleans it nicely.

[@PeterAgostiniJdcap26]

I hate that stanlriz stuff ..good video thanks gangster bro

[@AndyX]

hmm ok...thanks for the schooling Will

[@kamil_trembacz]

Hi Will! Which airbrush is it? I'm looking for sth with "gun trigger " right now.

[@democracy2005]

Kamil Trembacz he is using an iwata hp-th with a grip handle add-on

[@kamil_trembacz]

@@democracy2005 thanks!

[@j.mcq.8418]

I think maybe the term you're looking for is "airbrushing best practices"

[@barpfoto]

no. i'm really not.

[@j.mcq.8418]

I guess "airbrushing perfect practices" is the term.

[@seanerk5kt9]

I think I’ve seen that guys videos... ;)

[@NigelsModellingBench]

Me too lol.

[@barpfoto]

lulz. ;)

[@GalaxyStranger01]

30lbs is completely normal for nearly all forms of paint spraying - I don't know why people freak out about 30lbs. If you can go less, great. But I've seen people shoot 45lbs. I LOVE Stynylrez. I'd use it for base coats if they offered it in all primary colors. On the subject of rough paint jobs - you gotta go back to automotive paint jobs. Scale doesn't matter - rough paint is rough paint. In order avoid rough paint jobs and orange peel you have to do what the big boys do - paint and sand, paint and sand. You can mitigate this with proper paint technique and flow improver, but you have to maintain that slick finish from all the under-layers.

[@kevinm3751]

I dont know what paint you use but none that I have used will handle that kind of pressure without causing some serious issues. Probably my cheap Iwata and Pashe brushes that dont need to be blasted to the fucking moon I dont know!

[@GalaxyStranger01]

@@kevinm3751 No, you don't NEED to shoot 30psi, but I've done it with no problems with Synylrez. I also use lacquers, enamels and automotive urethanes. All I'm saying is that 30psi isn't a big deal.

[@kevinm3751]

@@GalaxyStranger01 Maybe for your guns but I have never got above 20 without spitting and sputtering going on. I can use a big needle (5, 7, 9) and get away with it but rarely have the need to go big so never use the big needles.

[@GalaxyStranger01]

@@kevinm3751 I dunno - thin more?

[@kevinm3751]

@@GalaxyStranger01 I see no reason to? I mean if its just to say I can spray at 30psi because I can there is nothing to gain. I have way more control over the process at lower pressure and that is where I like to be.

[@MrCB357]

Hard to gauge what distance your spraying at ... for idiots like me that makes a difference 😉

[@craigmckenzie7184]

Lolz.

[@barpfoto]

do go on....

[@markmalasics8413]

Good God, I'm looking for an INSTRUCTIONAL video on the topic and here I am, greeted by "What's up, gangsters?" I tried watching other similar videos but those had some Australian guy and his accent makes it nearly impossible to understand him. I just wish someone would make a straight forward video on the topic......no BS and no need to have anyone in front of the camera. Show the content and make it well. But guess that's too much to ask so I will just continue along on my own and figure things out as they arrive. But this is indeed a record.....only 2 seconds into a video and I'm through with it.

[@barpfoto]

and yet you spent 30 seconds writing this comment, dumbshit. maybe if you spent less time being an asshole and more time watching, you'd learn something.

[@MrJstone00]

so you took no time to actually watch the content, which as always is solid and does exactly what you're asking for and instead shit on it for an intro. Pull your head out of your ass

[@mariocueva8700]

I am a bit late to the discussion but here in Australia we call the likes of you a ‘wanker’. Btw great video Will.