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Question: I'm looking to start with airbrushing my small scale models.

As there's something with forest and trees: I need advice.

Any tips for a decent airbrush gun, accessories & compressor for someone who is just starting?

If it matters: my models are rather small (1:87 and 1:32 train models) and I won't be doing square meters..

Note: am cheaparse so not looking to break the bank.

Thanks!

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Actually finished him last night, but I wasn't feeling up to writing the alt text at the time.

I unfortunately broke a peg off trying to fight through a too-tight fit, so I had to cement one of the shields on. I don't think that'll actually hold particularly well, so I may need to drill to reinforce, but for now it's *fine.*

Good Boy's lookin' pretty fine now.

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Starting with Nick's new digs, the caps are swapped from orange to black. It makes the orange on the shoulders stand out that much more, but... I think I'm fine with it.

Good Boy's body is finished. The AC cannon and other accessories will come later, maybe tomorrow.

It looks worse in pictures than in person, which is an odd contrast to, say, Natalia, who got a lot of compliments from people who only saw pictures of her, but whose flaws are apparent in person.

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Sitting out the only pride thing I wanted to go to this year trying to want to live, so let's build a dog.

Remember Good Boy? He was my first, from January of 2023. The first pic is his core. It's going into a new body. That's right, my good boy is getting chassis surgery :3

The paint on the armour wound up a bit.. I dunno, marblier than it looked like it would before it fully set? It's alright, but kind of a disappointment after the effort put in.

Legs soon.

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I had some more in the tank tonight, so I did the silver/lead grey mix and tackled everything that needs it. Shockingly, I wound up with enough of the mix, but not so much that I wound up dumping a bunch afterward.

This project is... well it's getting a little crowded, trying to keep everything with enough room to properly dry and set :blobcatgiggle:

There's four other (small) sprues I had to locate elsewhere too. By far the majority of this model is painted now.

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Day 1. Probably. Iunno, I might do more tonight.

Body, head, and weapons pieces done. The center sprue (E) didn't need a lot of paint, thankfully. Most of those pieces are from the command wolf's normal main gun, but this'll be an AC variant (note the sprue on the right) so I didn't paint them.

There's some bare plastic on the AC sprue as well, because I want to do the barrels in gunmetal. Finally, there's pieces which will need gold or silver detailing at the end.