I got some more hobby supplies yesterday. Found some disposable respirators at Bunnings that have carbon filters so are probably useful against fumes as well as small particles. The package says they are for agricultural spraying and painting so I feel a lot safer. They are a lot less bulky and a lot more comfortable than a non disposable respirator and are approximately equivalent in cost to replacement cartridges (approx $9 for a pack of two).
Also apparently California knows better. This was what I found on the side of a bottle of plastic glue that I am trying out. I will post notes on its performance but in the meantime I found this warning message to be hilarious.
This is another Deathwatch marine Apothecary Precipice (my first one in fact) that I am still working on. It seems like I never really finish painting a model because there is always something else I want to come back to do.
Painting black is painful. After being undercoated with chaos black spray I repainted the armor black because it is a different colour and texture to the spray. All the edges and panel lines were highlighted with a mix of Adeptus grey and chaos black. The hard/sharp edges were then highlighted with Astronomican grey.
This was the first model that I used the airbrush on. The pressure was way too high (max for my compressor @ approx 60 psi) and the paint way too thick (1 part demineralised water one part paint). This meant that the brush kept clogging up every few minutes.
One of the things that I discovered while painting this model was that if you put pure windex through the airbrush at high pressure you can strip off a recent coat of paint. I had originally tired a purple colour scheme which I didn't like and while trying to clean the airbrush accidentally hit the model with some spray. The windex striped the model back down to the chaos black undercoat.
The purple had been dry for approx 20 minutes at this stage. I am unsure if this will work on paint that has been on the model longer but when the opportunity presents it self I intend to try it out.
Did I mention that the fighter is an awesome model. I picked this one out to try the airbrush on first because of its mix of curved and sharp edges. It is really quick to put together, the whole thing is less than a dozen pieces from memory with the main hull consisting of two.
