How To Polish The Car?
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.
DIY Small Air Compressor With Active Cooling
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.
5 Ways to Fix Bent Airbrush Needle
Yes, we’ve all been there. Bent needle is the most common problem for all airbrush artists. Usually the nozzle cap should protect the needle and the nozzle tip but most of us love to work without the cap as it allows us to do better fine art. If you search on Internet for “How to fix bent needle” you will find a lot of material about that because this is very popular topic in lines of airbrush artist, especially on the tight budget.
How Much do Airbrush Artists Make?
Every beginner or even advanced artist doing airbrush has heard this question: “How Much?“. What I mean is that every time when you paint for someone, if it’s just a friendly favor or part of your business, it requires some background finances which you should include in your bill. It does depend on art-work dimensions. If you do something for you friend on A4 size paper I’ll bet you won’t dare to ask money but if you do a car you should acknowledge your client, even if it’s your friend, that it might cost something. After questions like “What to Paint?” and “Where to Paint?“, you have to tell your customer exactly why and for what he is going to pay apart of art.
Preparing Surface For Airbrush – Part 3
How many times did you get to paint plastics along with other surface like metal? These days car – it’s not just a piece of metal on wheels but a bunch of plastic details as well. I know there’s many people who don’t care much about plastics and just mask it with tape, but there are “masters” (as they call themselves :)) who just paint it the same way as the body of the car and don’t even care to prepare it in any way. So bumpers, side mirrors, spoilers and many of tuning additions that are mostly made of plastics can sometimes, even by small accident, crack and need to be painted after repair again or even replaced. If surface is not prepared properly the paint starts to flake. Even if you painted your car just a month ago and it looks great, how is the car going to look like with peeled bumper? Not just a car surface is the surface to go.
DIY Compressor by Albastrelu Viorel
Just a few weeks ago I received a question from one of my Facebook follower asking me if I can share his work with my audience. He has build his own “DIY” air compressor. The nice thing about it is that the compressor was build by following my tutorial called “Silent Compressor” which I’ve published some time ago. To be honest I could not wait to see it! Viorel describes this project a little bit below here – why he did it, what material did he use and what was the cost.
I Want to Do Airbrush. Where Do I Start?
“First say to yourself what you want to be; and then do what you have to do“. Epictetus. Tweet This! Sometimes I find a blog or forum entry where people are talking about airbrush in many different ways. One will tell that it is a good thing to spend your time on and another will try to convince you that it’s a perfect way to make money. After reading many of these articles I got a strange feeling of the main purpose of this whole thing called AIRBRUSH. It doesn’t matter if you just want to try it out or you manage to make money out of it already, the most important thing is that you do it because it is your hobby and you love your hobby. So, when you are going to start airbrushing, no matter what the reasons are, you have to ask yourself a question: I Want to Do Airbrush, Where Do I Start? Lets face it, airbrush for many of us is far from a profession (there is no university where you get a diploma), it is more like hobby where clever people manage to make an additional income. Additional in case that you have a day job already. Be honest, do you like your day job?
Preparing Surfaces for Airbrushing – part 1
When painting anything in any way (regular brush, spray nor airbrush) you have to follow certain rules to keep your art look great as long as possible. The process depends on used material surface. Wood, paper, textile, plastic, leather, rubber, metal, etc. All of these materials need special approach to preparation. Some of the preparation methods are easy to follow and don’t require much time to get us ready and some are more difficult and take probably more time than painting itself.