The new Air Brush

 Well I've had the new air brush for just over a month now and I can truly say what a difference a good air brush can make. I've started out some 10 years ago with a mid-range cost air brush that is still serving me well and great for terrain painting. The I added a cheap Chinese knock off as a second brush to speed up painting large terrain a few years later. Then earlier this year I saw a few videos on airbrushing by some war gamers and started looking into what they were using to get such good results. 

In the end after lots of research I ended up getting the Infinity from Harder and Steenbeck which I managed to pickup on sale locally for a good price. Still not cheap but I'm more than happy with it and the results I'm getting are just getting better all the time. With it being easy to use and clean, I'm using it more and more and with all the content and online videos these days, getting over issues and picking up tips and tricks is so much easier. I see it becoming my go to for a very long time.

Masina Island Rogue: WIP

Trying to work on my airbrush skills and improve my control I've been running into some paint flow issues and getting varied results and problems. Having a much greater success now I've got my mixing in of thinner a lot better, I thought I'd try out the Flow Improver that just got released by AK. (or at least just landed in my local hobby store)

So far after the base skin tones put down on this model, I'm in the I have no idea if it helped or not camp at the moment. I had less issues this time and maybe I just picked them up sooner and my practice is starting to pay off. I think more time on the brush will be needed before I can come to any conclusions. But at this early stage it hasn’t hurt using the Flow Improver.

The model is from "The Dragon Tappers Lodge" 

3D Printable Masina Island Rogue - Presupported by The Dragon Trappers Lodge (myminifactory.com)

Also just done some youtubing on the Flow Improver options and how others use it, so have some more experiments to try out using less thinner and more flow improver.

Year of the Dragon

I did this print for the Chinese Year of the Dragon. A larger lino-cut print that I did earlier this year in black ink and then the other day added some colour using my airbrush. And yes it says "Dragon" in Japanese as this print was actually a second I was going to throw out and was testing my separate lettering stamp (in red) for another print I’m working on, along with testing out the airbrush colour. End result turned out way better than I was expecting , so pretty pleased with the outcome.

Diorama : Friction Garage ..continued

 Back onto my large diorama, I’ve moved onto the other mechanic. I've been enjoying using the AK paints I got for skin tones, so have got the pastel box set from them since I don’t any colours close to pastels.  Tried out some on model wet blending with mixed results.

The model itself is a bit rough, her back is a bit pocked with support marks… a learning curve in how not to do resin supports. 

 The model is from Papsikels

3D Printable MARINE ROOKIE SURVIVOR GRACE BAREJO - REST MODE by PAPSIKELS MINIATURES (myminifactory.com)

Lechy progress

Happy with the paint work on Lechy, I've moved onto the basing for him, Due to his feet and the flat surface of the wood I've decided to go with a strong steal pin (actually a drill bit) to secure him to the base, otherwise I risk damaging the feet trying to mount him. The plan is to add a bunch of leaves on the ground and cover it up somewhat along with adding some leaves to his branches. The base itself needed a good sand back after my resin leakage, then a polish and it came up really nicely. 

Behold

 With Printopia week coming up, I'm looking forward to going to a couple of classes that my wife arranged as my Christmas present. Haven't been to an art class in over 30 years.

This is another one of the classic D&D monster prints I've done and that I've also made into a t-shirt. 

Carrion Crawler Print

 Another one of my lino-cut prints from earlier in the year. Anyone playing DnD in the early 80's will remeber this guy. The oringal was in the AD&D Monster manual, illustrated by David Sutherland. 

Lechy

 Lechy is coming along nicely, slowly getting better with my airbrush.

STL file from

3D Printable Lechy by Lord of the Print (myminifactory.com)

Resin Water

After the success with the AK concreate, I had picked up an odd offcut of a bit of Kōwhai from my Dad that I thought would make a cool base for something. So got some two-part Water Resin from AK to give it a go. Learnt the hard way that you need to make sure the thing is really well sealed your poring into. Ended up have some resin spill out the side though one of the nots in the wood. Nothing major but a bit more to clean up.

  

Dropped a few small leaves into the resin as I was doing pouring, could have added a few more, but may end up adding some on top once Lechy is painted and mounted.

I've printed up Lechy to go onto this base once finished.

3D Printable Lechy by Lord of the Print (myminifactory.com)

Just started air brushing his base colours.

Diorama : Friction Garage

 Once I started on Amanda Pistons and watching a few videos online I got enthusiastic and thought I try out a full-on diorama and get away from painting war gaming minis for a bit. The plan which has morphed a few times as I build it. Basic idea was to have a cyberpunk style garage.  First up was some oil barrels. Again upscaled off some models from 3D Printable Oil Drums by Marián Corvis Kronauer (myminifactory.com) 

Second, I found some concreate mix from Ak Interactive in the local store, so gave that a go, following along with their YouTube video which gave me the idea for the floor stripes. Still got alot to tidy up on it after trying out a few different things. it's actually really good product and easy to use.

Din Djarin

 Something a little different. Been getting back into doing Lino cut prints. This is one I did earlier this year of the Din Djarin based of a drawing I found online. 

Amanda 'Wrench' Pistons

 Another larger piece in progress, Amanda 'Wrench' Pistons - cyberpunk from UNIT9.

Upscaled so I could practice using my new airbrush and try out some AK products.

Predator Bust

It's been awhile since I last posted, life sometimes get in the way.

This is my latest project, a large Predator bust, in fact it's the largest model I've printed on my resin printer. I originally was just going to use it for practice for a new airbrush. But in the end it came out rather good so worked on it a lot after doing the base colours and skin with the airbrush.