I know this subject has been covered some in the past. On the first layout I used cheep rattle cans from Wally World with good success but gets rather expensive, now I am wanting to use my air brush to paint the clouds being I have more than enough flat white to do the job.
I am fairly new at air brushing and was wondering if I could use the # 3 needle assy. in my Paashe airbrush to get about the same spray pattern as a rattle can? I tried using a cheep air brush from wally World on the first layout and did not have much success, seems there was not a wide enough spray pattern and did not have enough ‘‘feathering’’ effect and made the clouds very white and not much of a ‘‘feathering effect’’ between the blue sky and the white cloud.
I did a search and really did not find any answers that I liked so I will try a new post. Thanks. Mike
I have a Paasche airbrush and I pretty much use needle 3 for everything. Its not to heavy or light. I’ll be using that needle when I airbrush my own clouds.
Mike, unless you have true artistic talent/experience, I’d tend to avoid attempting to create clouds with an airbursh. The rattlecan/stencil method is far easier and more likely to result in successful execution for those that are not artists. Alternately, I’ve seen a number of hobbyists sponge-paint their clouds, with the results being quite convincing also.
Incidentally, in most instances only the bottoms of distant individual clouds tend to be diffuse, not the entire cloud to any extent. The upper surfaces of individual fair weather cumulus are typically well defined.
For my own layout, I used the old rattle-can/stencil method and was quite happy with the results (below).
