Weathering Equipment

I prefer to weather my models after I have finished adding any detail parts or renumbering, below is the equipment I use, the compressor was purchased on Ebay, it came with two free airbrushes which are okay to start with but I soon realised that a better quaility airbrush would be needed because sometimes fine detail painting is just not possible with cheaper airbrushes.

As you can see the on the compressor regulator a moisture trap is fitted, this is very important as you don't want any moisture contaminating your paintwork!

A compressor fitted with a receiver is usually better than a compressor without a receiver, with a receiver the air builds up and is stored in the tank and is delivered smoothly to the airbrush without any pulsing which can happen if the compressor doesn't have a receiver fitted.

Pictured above are my weathering airbrushes, the top airbrush is the Iwata HP SB Plus, it features a removeable side mounted colour cup, larger cups are available if needed but the cup supplied is more than big enough for my needs. The air and paint control of this brush is excellent which makes painting very small detail parts very easy and accurate due to the 0.2mm needle and spraying a line 2mm thick is possible with this brush.

This airbrush is one of the top of the range Iwata airbrushes and sells for around £200.00

The second airbrush down is my Premi Air G35 brush, this is a great dual action airbrush but it's not as accurate as the Iwata brush, because of the 0.35mm needle I use this brush for covering larger areas, ie: buildings or new livery application.

The third and fourth brushes down came free with my compressor and to be honest not very good quality, they are okay for practicing getting the paint mix correct, learning how to use the dual action trigger etc but thats about all.