gun kote and air brush??? Help please.

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Ogallala_1

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So I want to try my hand at some spray on coatings with that being said I would like to use a air brush does any one know anything about air brushes? Where to buy one how much one should cost what is a good brand? Any help is greatly appreciated.

John
 
I am definately no airbrush expert but I bought one once and tried it. I tried to run regular paint thru it and it slap would not work. As I understand it you have to buy special paint for the airbrush. At the time I couldn't even find a book that had instructions on airbrushing. I just wanted the basics and got dis-interested in the whole thing. Taxidermy was an old hobby of mine and I recently started messing with it again. I see several of the taxidermy suppliers offer DVD's about air brushing.
 
Badger makes one of the better Air Brushes...You can run it off of a small 2.5gal oiless compressor by turning the air pressure down, or buying a specific compressor made for them..

You can use regular paint, but it needs to be really thinned down with thinner and it takes a little longer to dry...

There are books (just like reloading manuals) on air brushing that will give you a basic understanding and some practice drills that will let you build some skills to do some really fine work, but it takes a good deal of muscle control and an artistic eye...

By the time you read the book, you will know the difference between the types of air brushes as well as how to get the best results from them...It's a whole 'nother educational program...

I did my first Air Brush project using DuraCoat paints with a hobby kit that I bought at WalMart that had compressed air for a propellant and a 'hobby' type brush...It was fine for painting a rifle, but pretty course for any fine detail work....
 
Most of your home Development stores will sell Air Brushes for under $30.00. The trick to using them is to thin the coatings beings sprayed so they will go through the Air Brush. I never used Gun Kote, but have sprayed guns with Dura Coat. Dura Coat kits come with a reducer to thin the finish so it sprays. Set up the compresser preasurer according to the Air Brush directions. You might have to increase or decrease it a little to get the brush working.
 
the quick change airbrush kit for 11.99 at harbor freight is what I use when I dura-coat...... if you clean up good you can get two uses out of a bottle...
 
I can tell you that Gun Kote offers a "special" thinner and when I called Brownell's about it the dude said "it's nothin' but M.E.K." I tried it and it definitely worked as a thinner, just not thru my airbrush. Also, be careful as too much thinner will make the finish flat and way too much will cause it to turn to a powder that after it dries and you heat it will wipe right off. It doesn't take alot of thinner at all. I use a small automotive detail gun from Lowe's to spray guns and I do use Gun-Kote. The only one I have had trouble with is the matte black...spray it slightly too thick or get it on the gun too heavy and it becomes hi-gloss. The matte black is very hard to get to a matte or flat finish.
 


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