Video: How to use basic airbrushing techniques - weathering freight cars

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Video: How to use basic airbrushing techniques - weathering freight cars

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Very Informative, I have been away from the hobby for awhile, and at this time I would like to persue it again…Just what I wanted-needed a step-by-step tutorial with professional results!! Thanks Cody

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good job Cody! very informative and now I know to use 70% isoporpoyl for a thinning agent . I use 50 for thinning artist acrylics. Have you done any of this painting in nscale?

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Cody, a wonderful presentation! I especially liked the use of that gizmo for wheel set paint. A very useful product.

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Great tips! Informative and fun to watch. I’ll be trying them ot very soon.

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Mr Grivno,

Thanks for the video, it will become useful as I venture into air brushing and weathering. I do have one question:

While brushing the coal hopper, your motion was from bottom to top/parallel to the ribs. However, on the boxcar, you went end to end. Does it matter when weathering?

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I sprayed dullcote on a car one time with the couplers on the car, like in this video, and they got so roughed up with texture the car would not couple smoothly with another. I had to replace them, cleaning them did not get them smoothly working again.

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thanks Cody - just great. Didn’t know that you could thin the polyscale paints with Alcohol - always used water in the past.

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Codys Done an Excellent Job with this video Including a lot of useful tips

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Nice job, I, find these tutorials very helpful. I don’t have an airbrush yet but, it will be soon.

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Does Kalmbach offer painting, weathering and airbrushing DVD’s?
Thanks
Ed
edgm@mac.com

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Great presentation. Good step-by-step tutorial. Thanks Cody

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Is it possible to get a narrow stream of paint with a double action airbrush?

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hey Cody where can I get an airbrush like that for cheap?

Thanks,
Nick

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NICHOLAS - I picked up several great brushes on ebay in the past and have never paid over 40 bucks for them. all of them were in great working order, the double action one i got needed a part, but that was only like a buck or two and sometimes friends may have them they would trade or donate to you. Last single action Paache I got on ebay was in a lot from the closure of a hobby shop and was new in box, and had a carton filled with jars of Flouquil and Polly S and I paid 60 bucks for the whole slam, so keep a look out and you might get lucky.

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I inherited an HBO electric train table. It is five feet wide and eight feet long. My father inlaw had made in his garage at his place of residence. He had avilable to use loose electrical wire where he worked in the aircraft industry. Consequently, all of the wire installed in the set was white appropraite guage wire. The orginal transformer would not work. I purchased a new one and have all of the AC units working but the DC rails are dead. Question, should I replace the DC positive rail with a red wire all through the layout just for my information?

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Very informative video. Wish you had a little more time on the wheels. Thanks Cody and please keep them coming. Chris B.

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Good info but the video could be improved by specifying drying times (approximately of course) between coats. Also, the dilution of the black (if any) was not specified.

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informative, would like more articles on basic airbrushing techniques

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I enjoy airbrushing so much I tend to overdo the weathering. It is important to note that Cody did one pass with the airbrush and that was sufficient. I scratchbuilt an HOn3 reefer a few years ago and overweathered it with black paint. Don’t be like me!