Airbrush hints and tips

Cleaning

If you have this kind of inexpensive suction feed airbrush, you'll know what a pain it is to clean the feed tube. Here's a little tip to make it simple.

Get a disposable plastic dropper pipette and cut off the end so that the remainder is a nice fit over the airbrush feed tube, when it's cleaning time, a little warm water or thinners in the pipette, hold the brush upside down  whilst spraying into a rag, and Bob's yer uncle.

Another little tip, instead of forking out ten or twelve quid on a superdooper airbrush cleaning vessel, get a big coffee jar and make a hole in the lid. Be careful with naked flames if you are using volatile thinners.

Here's a photo of mine relaxing in the conservatory and sporting my trusty (and nearly 40 year old) badger 100.