MIG Update

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I know I havent posted for a while, things have been a little hectic in the flat so I haven’t had much time at the bench, here is a quick look at the paint on the MiG build now the demarcation has been sharpened up, needs a couple of touch ups etc but its looking ok.

I have also decided on the weapons this ones goingto be carrying, load out is going to be a couple of OFAB-100 on the rear pylons, UB-32 pods on the wing gloves, UB-16 on the outer fuselage pylons and the centre line will carry an external fuel tank. After all, who doesnt like rockets!

Budget Airbrush with Big Promise

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I thought I would pop up a post about a new airbrush I picked up a month or so ago, I usually use an Iwata brush for my work with acrylics but I wanted to have a play about with some lacquer based paint so decided rather than running it through my Iwata just to order a budget airbrush off Amazon for my experiments with the new paint. I had a look and ordered this Agora-tec dual action 0.2mm for the princely sum of £23.95 delivered! I was expecting the brush to be some cheap chinese generic and not much good at this price but I have been pleasantly surprised.

Firstly the brush shipped from Germany not China, and secondly it turns out this is a really nice brush. The nozzle is stainless steel rather than brass and the only thing I have done to it is buff the needle to polish the tip and its given me some great results. I am amazed at how fine I can get the detail with this brush too.

It has an adjustable needle stop and an airflow adjuster on the brush making fine tuning for detail a little easier and if you look in the images above it can produce some really fine lines/detail. The above pics were taken using a premixed Revell Aqua Acrylic that I had just used for large coverage through a 0.35mm needle on a different brush, this has been sprayed on to a sheet of standard white copier paper and I hadn’t adjusted the thinning/air pressure at all, you can get a much more even line if you spend the time to set it up properly.

The peel to reveal!

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So here it is masking peeled. Im pretty happy with the result as it looks a closer to an accurate Type-A Scheme than I would have achieved without using the pre cut mask.

Now I’m sitting here thinking bugger, I still have masking to do as I just realised I have done the white/black on the underside! Better get the tape out!