[morini]

Im sure you already know this but for the benefit of others who may not, when painting with aerosol or airbrush make yourself a booth... get yourself a large cardboard box placed on its end/side (use opening flaps for stability) and make several racks/hangers from old wire coat hangers or similar materials. Do all your spray/painting inside the box....minimal mess, hands free work area allowing subject to be turned 360 degree and cuts down on any airborne pollution/dust.

Yeah, it's a good idea and I use that technique when spraying larger things with a full size spray gun (like bike or car parts). I don't tend to bother with a booth when using the airbrush though as there's next to no overspray and you need all the natural light you can get.

Had two disasters. First I masked up the tiny little black airvents on the sidepanels to spray them semi gloss black. I was umming and aahing about brush painting them but there were quite a few other items needing that colour so I masked up. Didn't realise until much later (after disaster 2) that the black bled and has ruined the red and white of both sidepanels - wish I'd done it by hand now. Sanded them back and have now blown over in white ready to start again on those. Disaster two after spraying the back of the wing uprights semi gloss black I cleaned the airbrush in order to touch up a mistake on the nose and another coat of dayglo on the front of the wing uprights. Mustn't have done a good enough job of cleaning airbrush cos I saw tiny specks of black in the dayglo. No amount of coats seemed to be covering it so start again time. Thats 4 parts I've had to blow over white in order to repaint when I can be arsed. Hope I've got enough of that colour left.

If I get back into modelling (not sure I have the patience anymore if I am honest) I will get a better airbrush. The one I have came in a kit of stuff for my compressor. It's "ok" but is a cheap syphon single action jobbie and is a pain to clean up and swap colours. Much easier with a gravity fed dual action airbrush, was actually thinking of getting a cheapie off ebay but talked myself out of it. Buy cheap buy twice is usually a good motto to live by! I'll struggle on with the syphon brush and see what this model comes out like before I shell out on a decent airbrush I might not use much.