Hey everyone. This is a forum where yantraimages and myself wanted to start to see how many people out there in the world airbrush. Some people do it for a business, and some do it for just fun. Please post your experiences on here on what kind of art you do, what application you use it on, what are the best paints or mixtures to use and more. Also, comments & Suggestions are most helpful once we get the forum up and about.

I dont air brush, bit I've been a painted lady.

Thanks Dragonfire, My internet connection was not cooperating to create this topic. By the way, I like painted ladies! So you are a DJ too, seems like we have a lot in common. So you have mentioned what didn't work well with the cracking and so forth. So far I have been working on a table with Testors enamels and a lot of clear coat, on wood, it works OK, but I live in a cabin up in the mountains and when it got to 60 F, the paint started wrinkling, I figured I can't paint below 60F

I've been reading a lot and I am wondering if I should just bite the bullet, spend the money on the House of Kolor paints and illeviate the learning by mistakes part of my training process. I've done way too much of that. But if there was a less expensive alternative that worked really well I would love to know. I have a couple of good paint shops in Santa Fe and some of the dupont stuff looks OK, but I have never painted a car or motorcycle and want to get up the learning curve fast. As an artist I have faith that I could do really nice work fast, but the paints, primers and process is a big learning curve that I would prefer to not learn by error.

It is 2:30pm and it is 27degrees F outside and I don't have a paint booth. I think I might be waiting until spring, don't you think?

To let you know my canvas situation, I have a BMW Dakar 650,street legal dirt bike which I would Love to paint, a 86 Toyota MR2,which I drive most of the time, a 78 Datsun 280Z which is my first painting project, a Peugeot 505stx which would be nice to paint, a Ford Econoline Van, a 94 Nissan Pathfinder, that has been rolled So I have a lot of Canvas material.

Well, I finally bit the bullet. I went on the research and I bought the $378 kit for the .03 Iwata top feed airbrush gun, A 1/5 hp pump with bottom tank with regulator and water trap, the dvd, createx paints, all the cups, sticks, and bs... Like I had stated before, I missed the hobby from childhood so much that, I went for it at 5am this morning lol. Got the kit coming from an autobody shop that works mainly with airbrush supplies out of Sandiego CA.

If you want to find a cheaper set to House Of Kolor paints, for like $100 or less, try ebay. They have their colors as a test in i think their 5oz bottles. Im thinkin of doing it myself once I get myself situated here.

If the econoline van is a used vehicle, I would start with that. Large areaq of canvas to put a nice mural on. If I could find my pictures on one of my cd's, I can show ya what I have seen airbrushed lately at the recent car show down here. The **** they do down here is sooooooooooo wicked.