Baran İşmen

Vallejo Model Air's are way to go, however it lacks of glossy finishes. It can be easily thinned even by water and sprayed. Model Color's are also usable but need to be thinned more than Model Air's, preferably externally (not inside the airbrush cup). Cheers, Baran

Luckily I've found this! Recently I've been investigating the ingredients of Airbrush Cleaner & Thinner, which literally smells, feels and works the same in practice. As the prices for these two are getting higher and higher recently where i live, I had to find a better & cheaper option. I've first tried the traditional %33 IPA - %66 Water - %1 Glyserol mixture (so-called homebrew acrylic thinner). It's quite good for cleaning the remaining paints and stuff inside the airbrush, but for thinning the Model Air's, it's not hitting the spot. So I had to improve it. Definitely better with Model Color's though, as the guy who suggested me this solution was using Model Color's with his cheapo airbrush and absolutely no problems. Quite interesting.. According to the MSDS of A.Cleaner, it contains %17 of Butyl Glycol. I'll soon buy a Liter of this guy and make several mixtures. It'll take some time to hit the perfect spot though, but i think IPA ratio should not be that much as it dissolves the paint in a different way. Maybe I'll begin with a ratio of %20 B.Glycol / % 60-65 Water / %15-20 IPA and couple drops of Glycerol for that oily, smooth surface of the original thing (which I assume also delay the paint dry on airbrush tip) Forgot to say that I'm mainly using Model Air's. Will update this when I got a bottle of Butyl and test the various mixtures. Cheers all, Baran

Really loved the idea of using parts of a PCB in the cockpit, epic!

Lovely build & base. Can you inform me more about the base ? I mean the dimensions of lines and stuff. Cheers

Actually pre-shading is not a "should" thing, it's entirely depends. One can compensate that by post-shading or with pigments even. It all depends on your look and expectations from the finished model. Don't stick with that so much imho.