An Airbrush Kind of Day

 I've been waiting to get my Dire Avengers painted. For the first time, I'm going to try an airbrush 28mm infantry models. I saw an awesome video on youtube about how to do this exact thing with dire avengers, so I'm going to give it a go.




The above picture is my dire avengers still on the sprue. I've cleaned the models of mold lines, which has already taken about 2 hours. The idea is to keep the models separated on the sprue so that the airbrush can hit all angles without the model itself getting in the way. For instance, if I glue the arms and weapons on, the airbrush will be unable to hit the torso at the correct angle.

We will see how it goes! Below are just a few pics of my airbrush set up below.

I made an overspray box and put a cheap fan pointed out a window in the back. It does a good job of catching overspray and directing it out of the room. To be honest, there isn't alot of overspray, but I think it helps. You will see my Grex airbrush in the shot there.

These are two foamcore buildings that I've made. The one on the right was made probably 8 years ago, but I've gone back this week and added rubble and sand. The one on the left is brand new and I think it will be amazing! We really need more line of site blocking terrain at the Battlezone, and this thing will hide infantry and tanks from a few angles at least.

Really, after reading some more of the Horus Heresy series, I want a more narrative feel for our battle. A large part of that is setting the scene with terrain. You note that I made some alien jungles earlier this month (I'm tired of fighting over pine trees!) and I hope these buildings will give us more urban terrain to fight in and over.

I will post after pics when I'm done! Murphy Out. Questions about my airbrush or anything else? Leave a comment and I"ll get back to you :)