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Hello everyone. I'm looking into getting into airbrushing and was curious about whether or not it would be necessary to get something more than a dust mask for airbrushing. I have a beard and I know nothing will get a full seal, but was curious about how much of a difference it would make. I will be airbrushing outside on my back patio area and it will be in short bursts, probably about 5 minutes max for each go before I let the coat set. Would getting something like a full respirator be necessary for safety or would there be negligible amounts of dust to worry about anyway painting like this?

I read the title and was going to suggest airbrushing with paint, but reading the actual post...I dunno. Hopefully someone can science us.

Hah...putting hair in your airbrush is probably less than ideal

So good news, providing you are not over spraying you actually won't really need a facemask all the time.

Second thing is good new fellow beard lover! If you wear a dustask and it does not make a seal, your beast actually acts as a filter. And if you don't want that, just get a bandana and go bank robber and make a mask, works the same way.


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If you are talking about rattle can, just don't spray into the wind and you will be fine

 Backspacehacker wrote:
So good news, providing you are not over spraying you actually won't really need a facemask all the time.

Second thing is good new fellow beard lover! If you wear a dustask and it does not make a seal, your beast actually acts as a filter. And if you don't want that, just get a bandana and go bank robber and make a mask, works the same way.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
If you are talking about rattle can, just don't spray into the wind and you will be fine

Hail! I will definitely try that. I haven't ever airbrushed at all before so I didn't really have any idea as to what I'd need as far as PPE for starting but I will probably just go with the dustmask for now and see how that goes. Most of the pieces I'll be doing are small...I have to admit I do enjoy painting 40K but I don't actually play the game. I also paint Dungeons and Dragons miniatures and am mainly looking into the airbrush for painting Gunpla, which will be a lot of small pieces held up by alligator clips on sticks, stuck into some styrofoam.

 Mr Mayhem wrote:

 Backspacehacker wrote:
So good news, providing you are not over spraying you actually won't really need a facemask all the time.

Second thing is good new fellow beard lover! If you wear a dustask and it does not make a seal, your beast actually acts as a filter. And if you don't want that, just get a bandana and go bank robber and make a mask, works the same way.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
If you are talking about rattle can, just don't spray into the wind and you will be fine

Hail! I will definitely try that. I haven't ever airbrushed at all before so I didn't really have any idea as to what I'd need as far as PPE for starting but I will probably just go with the dustmask for now and see how that goes. Most of the pieces I'll be doing are small...I have to admit I do enjoy painting 40K but I don't actually play the game. I also paint Dungeons and Dragons miniatures and am mainly looking into the airbrush for painting Gunpla, which will be a lot of small pieces held up by alligator clips on sticks, stuck into some styrofoam.

Sticky tack also is a good send for airbrushing

 Backspacehacker wrote:

 Mr Mayhem wrote:

 Backspacehacker wrote:
So good news, providing you are not over spraying you actually won't really need a facemask all the time.

Second thing is good new fellow beard lover! If you wear a dustask and it does not make a seal, your beast actually acts as a filter. And if you don't want that, just get a bandana and go bank robber and make a mask, works the same way.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
If you are talking about rattle can, just don't spray into the wind and you will be fine

Hail! I will definitely try that. I haven't ever airbrushed at all before so I didn't really have any idea as to what I'd need as far as PPE for starting but I will probably just go with the dustmask for now and see how that goes. Most of the pieces I'll be doing are small...I have to admit I do enjoy painting 40K but I don't actually play the game. I also paint Dungeons and Dragons miniatures and am mainly looking into the airbrush for painting Gunpla, which will be a lot of small pieces held up by alligator clips on sticks, stuck into some styrofoam.

Sticky tack also is a good send for airbrushing

You know now that you mention it, I have seen this being used as well but totally forgot about that. I'll have to look into that as well.

I use one of these:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00079FOK0/


And I've got a pretty feral beard going. That mask seems to seal pretty well, it passes the 'block and inhale' test well enough.

Ulfhednar_42 wrote:
I use one of these:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00079FOK0/


And I've got a pretty feral beard going. That mask seems to seal pretty well, it passes the 'block and inhale' test well enough.

That looks pretty good and has great reviews, I might give that one a shot. Thanks!

Personaly for any spray painting (this includes airbrush) my PPE views are as follows:

Outdoor spraying with the wind or a spray booth, mask if you’re inside or in an area where you’re protected from the wind, surgical style gloves because overspray happens and to get full coverage you’ll NEED to hold it in your hands which means you’ll want to be as close to barehanded for maximum dexterity, and sacrificial plywood/cardboard/newspaper/etc. otherwise overspray WILL hit something that will make someone angry.

 ChaoticMind wrote:
Personaly for any spray painting (this includes airbrush) my PPE views are as follows:

Outdoor spraying with the wind or a spray booth, mask if you’re inside or in an area where you’re protected from the wind, surgical style gloves because overspray happens and to get full coverage you’ll NEED to hold it in your hands which means you’ll want to be as close to barehanded for maximum dexterity, and sacrificial plywood/cardboard/newspaper/etc. otherwise overspray WILL hit something that will make someone angry.

I went ahead and picked up the mask that Ulfhednar_42 above suggested, along with an airbrush and some other equipment. Only thing left to get will be some gloves like you mentioned. Pretty excited to get into this