Airbrush touching up????

[rossfox]

Hello all. I have a question. How many use an airbrush to just touch up places in the paint on a model, but not repaint an whole area? I have some areas where there was overspray and using a brush hasn't worked well for me. I was thinking of getting a small nozzles airbrush, and trying to just focus on the small area that has overspray or a place I have botched up. Any suggestions???

[bill-e-boy]

I have touched up small areas with an airbrush. Works especially well with lacquer paints but not so well with enamels. Lacquers blend well because the top layer etches into the lower layers

If touching up and overspray are you will need to mask between the coloured areas

 

[johnyrotten]

I managed to repair a blemish on this GTO. Somehow got a small drop of c.a. glue just behind the door. Masked the the whole car except the rear quarter from the body line to the top, carefully sanded and very lightly built the color back up. I "faded" the paint as I moved away from the damage, and hid the "seam" with the door and body lines. It's almost unnoticeable in person. This is all cheap craft paints with createx additives and clear.

Edited June 7 by johnyrotten

[rossfox]

6 hours ago, johnyrotten said:

I managed to repair a blemish on this GTO. Somehow got a small drop of c.a. glue just behind the door. Masked the the whole car except the rear quarter from the body line to the top, carefully sanded and very lightly built the color back up. I "faded" the paint as I moved away from the damage, and hid the "seam" with the door and body lines. It's almost unnoticeable in person. This is all cheap craft paints with createx additives and clear.

Looks great to me!

[Skip]

The "Overspray" that you mention is the overlap from the touched-up section that gets blended into the existing surrounding paint. If you have done your feathering of the existing paint into the touchup section, then the blending either with a good "Cleaner Wax" or a Light Compound can take place. It's far easier to blend in scale with a "Cleaner Wax" than it is to use even a Light Compound to blend. Things happen really quickly on a small-scale touchup, it's really easy to burn through the touched-up paint to the blended areas. Work Carefuly, Work Slowly, Back Up your polishing cloth with a foam pad to spread the pressure evenly across the surface. If you do that alone, you should be able to come up with a good blend.