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I have a quick question for all airbrush users out there. As of payday I will be getting myself an airbrush and compressor, however at the moment I only have GW paints. I've been reading various articles around these forums, and correctly thinned this shouldn't be too much of a problem with clogging the nozzle, with a bit of practice. However I was interested to know if any of you have used the GW metallic paints in an airbrush? Do the little flaky bits in the paints cause any problems when using a smaller (0.15mm - 0.2mm) nozzle? I have a couple of Iron Warriors tanks and some joint bits on my defiler that I'd love to be able to airbrush.
Thanks folks!

I've not had good results with metallics so far.

I've tried the VMA metallics even but I think they were old or something... because every different color was really just silver no matter how much I shook them.

I had some success with GW Shining Gold but every other color I tried was a disaster... and it was tough going cleaning up my AB afterward. I probably won't try metallics again through the AB again, but there are folks here that can probably tell you how to do it correctly.

Tamiya makes a line of metalic additives that are "airbrush only". As for GW mettalics colging our tip its going to come down to the tip size.

The only thing that would really worry me about airbrushing mettalics is that thining them down enough to be used in an airbrush is going to really reduce to amount of metalic medium you get per unit area. What this meens is that you may not get the same metalicy look that your used to from the paint normaly.

http://www.hawkeyeshobbies.com/catalog/main.htm

I use these for my Grey Knights, and I think they're simply amazing.

Jokorey wrote:http://www.hawkeyeshobbies.com/catalog/main.htm

I use these for my Grey Knights, and I think they're simply amazing.

Hmm those talon acrylic metallics look interesting. It says they dry with a gloss finish and I don't think they are water-based acrylic but still a step in the right direction.

Awesome Paint Job had a quick video of them. It looked like Chrome.

Mewiththeface wrote:Awesome Paint Job had a quick video of them. It looked like Chrome.

I can't find that one, but very interested - you got a link any chance?

Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXTqlEsvXRA

Thanks!

Brilliant! Thanks for your input folks.