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So right now my setup isn't working for me.

- It is outside, (a.k.a very little airbrushing done during the winter months, holding a metal airbrush in one hand blowing air on a miniature in your other hand does NOT work when its cold. Not to mention It might affect the paint.

- I use a small compressor to fill an air tank to roughly 100 psi. That way I dont have to buy a new compressor for $150+. This work great untill you account the time you can use it. I don't know how much I can spray in one charge but it isn't enough. it also takes 15 minutes to fill it back up.

So, does anyone know how to paint indoors without getting paint all over my room. I was thinking about a spray booth which would be necessary to paint indoors. With a 4 sided spray booth with a fan leading to a window I assume 99.9 percent of the paint wont get out.

But on the issue of air sources, does anyone know any quiet compressors that aren't $200? or any silent cheap air source. the way I do it now may be the best way. Maybe I can get a bigger air tank.

Airbrushes have a very controlled spray, you could just airbrush on a table and only get overspray on the patch right under where your working. If your worried then a box with 2 sides removed would contain everything like a spray booth without the air filter.

Youd need a respirator if your spraying indoors, you should probably wear one outside too, but its less important.

No idea about compressors over there sorry.

Thanks, I figured that even without a fan over spray wouldn't be too bad. But I'll probably do it anyways if I every need to use solvent based paint. I still have a respirator luckily from a few years ago when i did other painting stuff. I probably just have to get new filters for it.

My current setup is using the cardboard box my compressor came in just cut into half at an angle and I just open a window. I use windex as a thinner so it really isn't that strong of a smell.

I have a Passche D3000R which is $160 but I can use it at night and won't wake up anyone else in the house.

After doing a fair bit of airbrushing indoors I invested in a spray booth and its been fantastic! They stop your spray from misting on horizontal areas and from settling on any models you may have around you.

UnCool Villain wrote:My current setup is using the cardboard box my compressor came in just cut into half at an angle and I just open a window. I use windex as a thinner so it really isn't that strong of a smell.

I have a Passche D3000R which is $160 but I can use it at night and won't wake up anyone else in the house.

That's also what I use as a compressor. Pretty sweet for the price tag.

As for a decent affordable airbrush, might want to look at a Badger Patriot 105 ($70 roughly)

RunningWithScissors wrote:So right now my setup isn't working for me.

- It is outside, (a.k.a very little airbrushing done during the winter months, holding a metal airbrush in one hand blowing air on a miniature in your other hand does NOT work when its cold. Not to mention It might affect the paint.

- I use a small compressor to fill an air tank to roughly 100 psi. That way I dont have to buy a new compressor for $150+. This work great untill you account the time you can use it. I don't know how much I can spray in one charge but it isn't enough. it also takes 15 minutes to fill it back up.

So, does anyone know how to paint indoors without getting paint all over my room. I was thinking about a spray booth which would be necessary to paint indoors. With a 4 sided spray booth with a fan leading to a window I assume 99.9 percent of the paint wont get out.

But on the issue of air sources, does anyone know any quiet compressors that aren't $200? or any silent cheap air source. the way I do it now may be the best way. Maybe I can get a bigger air tank.

Holy crap, you run your compressor for 15 mins to fill up the tank? I'd be worried about burning out the motor at that rate. The little ones usually overheat very easily. How big is the air tank? I have a small airbrush compressor hooked up to a hardware compressor (3 gallons) and it take about 4 mins to charge it up to 60 psi. Works well enough for me and during the day, if noise is not an issue, I just run the compressor that's built into the tank to fill it up to 100psi.

Also, I spray in front of my computer desk w/o a spray booth. I have no issues with getting paint all over the room. That being said, I did build my own spray booth for about 30 bucks. Just got a big clear plastic tub, clear is important since you want to have light enter it. I cut out the back in order to screw in a big high volume computer fan and hooked that up to a DC wall adapter to run it. Works well but I'm too lazy to setup/teardown every time I want to use the AB so I pretty much never use it these days.