I think what the problem is that the pigment of the acrylic that I am using is not milled enough. I have a selection of paints to be used in airbrushing, but they are not the right colors. When this paint is brushed on white card you cannot see pigment as grains of color, maybe it is milled finer. Going to experiment some more. But the drawback is that I am not good at taking several colors and mixing to the color needed. I end up with mud color.
Airbrushing, now that is a miss conception. I use acrylic paint thinned to almost skimmed milk. I found that I needed to increase air pressure to 65 pounds. After several attempts to painting a soft pattern I moved on to test painting on white paper. Then tried to do the dual trigger air brush technique to paint the scissortail. No luck here. Not coordinated I guess. Spent two days fighting the process. Then back to spraying a pattern on white card stock and holding that pattern and moving the bird into the spray pattern. Some success. Not what I really wanted. Cleaned the airbrush out again and tried to thin the paint some more. Too transparent then. Scrap that and back to the paper to bird technique. I think what the problem is that the pigment of the acrylic that I am using is not milled enough. I have a selection of paints to be used in airbrushing, but they are not the right colors. When this paint is brushed on white card you cannot see pigment as grains of color, maybe it is milled finer. Going to experiment some more. But the drawback is that I am not good at taking several colors and mixing to the color needed. I end up with mud color. I have 5 birds ready for final detailing color. Yes done with paint brush, had enough of air today.
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