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A photo of a very messy desk with an airbrush sitting on it, a piece of junkyard-looking terrain from Warhammer 40,000, all of which is being brightly lit from above by an long narrow LED light that's pointing downwards. The light is being held in place by a gooseneck phone holder that's attached to the side of the desk.

I've had my painting table inside because it's been mostly too hot in the back room to paint, but I need to do my airbrushing out there because I can't do it in the house, which in turn means I'm back to using the extremely dim LED side lamp when I'm airbrushing at night. Solution: LED light from Bunnings held up with a phone holder that is far stronger than it has any right to be!

Posted on 24 January 2023, 18:44

A photo of what looks like an old-style oil rig with the big weight that goes up and down. There's two tanks covered in metal plating of various colours with all sorts of pipes going everywhere, and it's all brown and rusty-looking.

I decided that I should really bite the bullet and actually get started on the large pieces of the Kill Team terrain from the Octarius box that I bought in the middle of 2021. Figured it'd be a good opportunity to actually try doing some airbrushing in a fashion other than a zenithal highlight base coat, and I'm pretty pleased with how it's coming out! I'm less worried about obviously sticking within the lines because a) it's terrain and I don't care nearly as much, and b) in this case it's Ork terrain which is completely ramshackle anyway. It's weirdly shiny because I'm using Army Painter's "Strong Tone" shade paint, which is sort of like Citadel's washes but oil-based and far thicker, and for some reason they thought a glossy finish would be the go. Once it's dry (which takes a good 24-48 hours 😮) I'm going to give it a drybrushing with some gunmetal silver and then will hit it with a matte varnish to get rid of the shine, and I reckon it's going to look pretty tops.

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Posted on 22 January 2023, 16:39

Today's deliveries are a flanger pedal for my guitar setup (can I call it a "rig" yet?), and a replacement airbrush needle! I was all excited to get my Kill Team terrain started last week, and I realised that my troubles with the airbrush clogging and spitting and just generally misbehaving were caused by the very tip of the needle being bent. 😞 I'm not sure exactly how I managed to do that, but I'm going to make a point to be a lot more gentle with it from now on.

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Posted on 4 October 2022, 13:25

A photo of the box of a Iwata "Smart Jet Pro" airbrush compressor (a black metal box with the ends open and a handle on top, with some vents in middle of the side), a "universal spray-out pot" (a little pot with a lid to spray the airbrush into to clean it out), and a braided hose for connecting the compressor to the airbrush (which it turns out wasn't needed because the compressor comes with a braided hose).

Turns out my compressor arrived sooner than predicted!

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Posted on 24 February 2022, 10:44

IT'S HERE! ...and the compressor isn't coming until next week. 😭 #FirstWorldProblems

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Posted on 21 February 2022, 10:52

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine, a big heavily-armoured warrior holding a big gun, that's been undercoated in black and has a zenithal highlight of white done from the angles on the top so it looks like the light is shining on him from above. The gradient is smoooooth.

We were over at a friend's place today and he has an airbrush. I had a play around with it, and that's it, I'm getting one. Look at the damned smoothness of this zenithal highlighting!

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Posted on 12 February 2022, 19:00