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What is Vinylography? Perhaps you may have heard of airbrushing on vinyl foil or at least about vinyl. Very often in airbrushing vinyl has been used for stenciling but some manufacturers went further and created a special foil that can be painted first in comfort of your home and then just been taken out and placed onto your car.

Easy, comfortable and it will give additional protection for your car hood and you can take it off after some time if you don’t like it and your old coat will be still there as new. Continue Reading

A long time ago when I wrote my first airbrush review I mentioned that I will try to get my hands on airbrush compressors too and give most reliable review I can.

This day has come. Today’s candidate is AS-189 from Chinese factory. No, I haven’t bought it in China, I have a local seller here that sells this fella under his brand name “ORLIK“. In North America it goes under trademark “FENGDA“. But I can certainly say that it was made in China and they just put a sticker on. Continue Reading

Polymer clay, an unusual topic for airbrush blog? Well, not that unusual for many artists doing sculpting.

Painting on clay is not as simple as it might look like because you have to count with the material properties and clay has also to be baked to give it durability and permanency. I am not a professional in this area but to stay on top of our topic “airbrushing” I will try to describe everything I know about clay from applying paint on top of it, what type of paint you can use, what preparation you need and all around it. I collected all this information from my research and from friend for the past week. Continue Reading

A long time ago I’ve prepared a reference pack to download with a name Camouflage and actually I have forgotten about it. Last week I’ve received an email from one subscriber named Marc. He was asking about digital camouflage stencils. So I jumped on that topic and decided to create a few stencils. After some time spent creating them I realized I’ve had reference material, so I decided to add that to today’s article too. But what kind of article would it be if it had just pictures.

Today I’m going to include some preview of references with option to download, also a preview of stencils with the option to download and at last some description, recommendations, “how to”, history and a very useful links that will help you with everything around this type of painting. Continue Reading

In today’s airbrush review I decided to start with quote from one of emails I’m getting from my readers “It seems like you have reviewed the top models of several brands. On the other end of the spectrum, I realized there are some unknown manufacturers offer something that looks like the high-end airbrushes, eg, Iwata CM-C Plus. I hope you won’t find my suggestions boring. I suppose most people won’t have the budget to purchase many airbrushes & many like myself has learnt things the hard way wasting $ on the quest to find the most appropriate tool.”

I don’t have that particular airbrush that looks like Iwata CM-C Plus to make a decent review but I happened to have the one that looks exactly as Iwata CM-B and that costs under 40 bucks with delivery and everything. The manufacturer is from China and the brush is called Master Airbrush BD-200.

It is a double action airbrush with regulation of paint amount. On the first look and touch you will think that this is solid and fine airbrush and maybe you will be curious why this tool is so cheap?

So let’s see if this is good stuff for small money. Continue Reading

Anyone hungry for stencils? I’ve updated my freebies page with some new, one layer stencils. Whilst preparing new stencils for my celebrity theme I noticed that celebrities look better and show more character if they have more color shades then only two. As I’ve been posting guides for making stencils and making multilayer stencils I have not yet added any of layered stuff to my freebies.

So I created a few of those and decided to tell everyone, not just my subscribers. Continue Reading

It took me a bit of time to come up with the idea for today’s post. I have not received any materials from sponsors for a long time to make a review. Only recently I received something but it will take time to prepare everything and write some good stuff.

I decided that I need to write something useful for my readers, something that will help anyone – not only the ones working in airbrushing but also with paints in general. One of the important things while painting apart of having great tools, prepare the surface, use the proper paint and have some skills is to be aware of external factors that can cause problem even if you are sure you have done everything right.

I’m sure that you have seen a paint to look like orange peel or paint runs. These are paint defects and you should watch at all time not to make any mistakes to avoid them. Your clients won’t like it.

There is many of them, so I’ll try describe every one of them as best as I can and also how to prevent them. Continue Reading

Have you ever heard term “polished car“? Do you know what exactly does it mean? Could you describe some of the steps involved in polishing process?

I have mentioned polishing before (how to paint car), so today I decided to fill this gap and write some advices on this topic. I will go as deep as I can and will try to write everything I know. It is not that easy as it looks. You will find out why it does cost so much money and I hope after reading this some of you will be able to do it yourself. It is not the same thing as polishing your shoes. Continue Reading

You might say “Another DIY Compressor?” – but it’s not just the same thing. Usually if you make one yourself it will take some space at your work place and using this space in your home premises is just out of question. This is actually the reason this fella has been build.

Well we all know that compressor without tank wouldn’t take much space but what if we want to have a tank anyway? Air tank in combination with regulator is giving so much pros comparing to compressor without it that any professional will tell you that he will go for the compressor with tank only.

Author of this build has started with the schema. We will not go into deep details – what and how exactly and why it was done because I have written about this before. If you need some more details I recommend you to read diy air compressor or silent diy compressor. Continue Reading