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Hey did anyone use oil based paints on a FW model and knows how it will work?

My forgeworld phantom is on the way and my best air brush is a oil one so ya.

As a precaution i like to seal my models with varnish before i use oils just for the solvents involved.

You have an 'oil paint' airbrush?

Airbrushes aren't paint specific. Certain models have rubber parts that can be damaged by use of certain solvents etc, but your airbrush is an airbrush, you can put pretty much any paint through it you want.

 Azreal13 wrote:


You have an 'oil paint' airbrush?

Airbrushes aren't paint specific. Certain models have rubber parts that can be damaged by use of certain solvents etc, but your airbrush is an airbrush, you can put pretty much any paint through it you want.

Not this one it is fed differently, it is really weird..... it is like a normal air brush but at the tip it has a dripper that when the air blows over it sprays the paint. Usually I am nto a strict ass with rules but I tried different paints and none seem to be as.... I dont know watery I guess.

Tried model air from vanjelo, and GW and I even tried to keep adding the... liquid stuff to make it finer, all it did was go from exploding to looking like a dripping facet. So I bought a 300$ air brush that can only work with their paints.... annoying as hell.

Who makes it?

er... do you mean that it's an external mix airbrush, as opposed to an internal mix?

Just the way it sounds -- an external mix airbrush mixes the air and paint outside the tip, while an internal mix airbrush mixes the air inside the tip.

In really, really general terms (because there are so many other factors), a lot of people say the external mix airbrushes are better for thicker, more viscous paints. But they also have a much larger dispersal pattern, which generally means you can cover large areas faster, but also that you won't be able to get much control.

My first airbrush was a Paasche external mix, single action (H series, maybe?); I absolutely hated it

I did oil washes (red) straight over unvarnished acrylics on this:


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