HOW TO... AIRBRUSH A TURNTABLE

Airbrushing is a great technique, which can produce realistic painted surfaces on models. Provided the modeller is able, it is accessible too, with compressors and airbrushes available for all budgets and no modeller should feel it is beyond their ability. Like all techniques, it requires a small amount of patience, but the benefits are a subtle finish to models, and a more economical use of paint. This is because the depth of paint applied can be thinner than brush-painting and an airbrush gives far greater control. Mixing and thinning paints for a larger model or a batch of models is more economical than for smaller items.

Besides repainting models to almost RTR standard – which requires considerable experience, airbrushing is a great technique for weathering, too. We’ve always advocated practising your weathering techniques on an inexpensive item first – an older RTR wagon, or a small lineside building you’ve constructed, for instance. Soon you’ll have ambitions for greater things, though perhaps not an expensive RTR locomotive, yet.

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