How Assemble and Airbrush A Miniature

About This Class

This class shows how to assemble, prime, basecoat, add midtones and highlight a miniature with an airbrush.

Class Overview

How to airbrush a miniature. Creating shadows, midtones and highlights. The class will then teach how to gloss varnish and use washes to bring out the detail in your miniature.

Finishing off with the drybrushing technique to bring more of the detail out.

Why You Should Take This Class

Airbrushing is used all over in different industries from advertising, make up, comics, vehicle art. These are just a few industries.

The skills learnt on this course can be transferred into any other projects you want to as the techniques are the same.

For example airbrushing fine details on a miniature can be easily transferred to say makeup or nails.

Having over fifteen years experience in airbrushing and painting I feel I have gathered a wealth of information that I can share along with some top tips!

If you have knowledge of using the airbrush then that is a plus but there is absolutely no reason why you can't learn to use an airbrush through this course. 100% all are welcome to learn!

This class is aimed for people in the arts who would like to branch out into other mediums or anyone who wants to learn to just airbrush miniatures. The skills are transferable.

Whilst the airbrush can be tricky to learn at first, stick with it, with a small degree of patience and discipline, anyone can achieve similar results and better.

What You Will Learn

- How to use the airbrush to create clean transitions

- How to control the airbrush trigger

- How to prime a miniature using the two step method.

- Techniques such as glossing the model and applying a wash to bring out the detail

- How to drybrush to bring out more detail of your miniature after the wash is applied

Materials/Resources What you will need for the course

Airbrush:

• Budget Airbrush

• Premium Airbrush - Harder & Steenbeck

• Premium Airbrush - Iwata HPCS

• Airbrush Compressor

Tools For Miniature Prep

• Files

• Craft Knife

• Mini Cutters

• Modelling Putty

• Cement Glue

• Superglue

Paints, Primers & Brushes (optional)

• Acylicos Vallejo Paints

• Black & Grey Primers

• Winsor & Newton Series 7 Brush

• Wet Palette

• Miniatures