An artfag stencil wannabe comes to you with some questions, and would be very appreciative if you could help him out.
I want to get into stenciling, airbrushing small stencils (likely no bigger than 6" x 3") onto plastic (both gloss and matte). As such there is a list of things I need, but I'm clueless in this are so looking for any advice you can offer. It's going to be logos, text, geometric patterns, no more than 3 colours at first I'd think.
Since the target material is plastic, google tells me enamel paint is the obvious choice - probably Humbrol since it's so readily available. I'm open to alternative suggestions though.
Things I own already:
- Acetate
- Printer that can print onto acetate
- Scalpel
- Cutting mat
- Masking tape :D
- Spray-on polyurethane varnish (I believe this is the right stuff - it might not be at all)
Any advice is welcome, I'm trying to do this on budget (so a compressor is out) - anything about £60 to get up and running with a brush, a few tins of paint, a few spare jars, and some spare propellant will do.
Thankyou
Most of what I've learned so far has come from http://www.doubleogauge.com/journal/enamelpaint.htm -- some it perhaps might not be the relevant. If anyone cares to critique his advice it would be appreciated.
You'll want a double-action airbrush if you want to make anything decent. I picked up two airbrushes and a compresser for about £65 on ebay. Tbh I don't see anything wrong with any of these cheap Chinese airbrushes, they're not exactly Iwata airbrushes, but they've worked perfectly fine for me, and they're much better than my expensive, cheaply made Badger airbrush.
>>2430 >You'd also have a much better response on an Airbrush forum, I used to go to a few, they're very helpful.
Any you care to suggest? I expect this is going to be the first of many questions, and it will be nice to have somewhere to go that might answer them for me.
tbh I just googled 'airbrush forum' and joined the first two I found. This one's pretty good, I've always had a fast response to questions: http://www.theairbrushforum.com/