Airbrush viability

[airhead]

Einion and airhead, I think you are using totally different amounts of colours as I do.

Agreed.

When I break out the guns, I'll go through around 4 oz. of makeup or paint in an evening.

If I'm not going to do any more than you do, I'd get the brushes. It is just not worth it to me to have to clean up for that little paint.

 

[MoblinMan]

Answered your own question.

Not really, I should have clarified that I did that in another room, for the first and only time. Also I had assumed that the spray of the airbrush is a lot more precise, localised and generally less messy than that of an aerosol, but like I said I'm clueless about the properties of an airbrush, so could have been wrong.

But thanks for all the responses they have been a big help.

 

[Einion]

Einion and airhead, I think you are using totally different amounts of colours as I do. I use one drop of colour with 8 drops of water in my airbrush and normally I can put back 6 drops of that mixture into my colour pot when I'm done airbrushing.

If you're using that little paint every time you airbrush you should have made it clear that your previous comments related to that amount of paint. You did say, "If you are doing what I am doing..." but you didn't specify what that was.

A generic question about airbrushing should be answered with typical/commonplace practice in mind, just like any generic question.

Einion

 

[Hendarion]

Well, true, I should have spcified it. But since we are talking about miniatures, I thought that the amount of colour I am using is typical for miniatures, as much more doesn't make sense for me. So also the question what a "typical/commonplace practice" might be needs to be defined.

But yea, spraying everything bigger than a miniature and/or with a noticable amount of colour should result in lung-protection or air-filtering.