Airbrushing indoors?

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The big question has to be, does it work? It looks quite impressive and I am suddenly thinking of the possibility of working over the kitchen sink with the hose hanging out the window. Mucho possibilities so long as the paint smell goes out and SWMBO does not moan about it lol. Look forward to hearing a working report.

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Turning it on you get a good steady breeze through the hosing but that's no test for chemical spray removal. I shall be setting the airbrush up tomorrow and give it a go. Will keep you posted.

Chris

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Well, I've bought the fume extractor from Maplins & 1st impressions are good. A rather unscientific test was performed by blowing cigarette smoke at it, & it sucks pretty good! I'll be using the AB tomorrow so I can see how it deals with real fumes! Patrick

I just found this thread and it's been idle for a bit over a month...

How did your experiment work out...I'm thinking about a similar paint booth to the one that has been posted here. My filtering method would be a glass furnace filter then a fine filter and a carbon filter intended to remove pet odor, and finally through an air cleaner with a HEPA Filter w/ Carbon and an Ionizer.

I found a couple of small aircleaners that can easily be mounted to the back to draw air out through a $10USD HEPA/Carbon filter and Ionizer.

Good, Bad...

Safe for what paints inside...Curious as to the response or if somebody already tried this...

LLD

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Hi Arron i use my airbrushes and compressor in the house all i do is make sure that the windows are open and iam wearing a mask, for airbrushing you can buy acrylic paints that are mixed with water, i have just started to experiment with humrol acrylics and there are no fumes with this paint and it is easy cleaning the AB however i like my tamiya acrylics so i cant see me replacing them any time soon.

scott

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Turning it on you get a good steady breeze through the hosing but that's no test for chemical spray removal. I shall be setting the airbrush up tomorrow and give it a go. Will keep you posted.Chris

hi chris you can test things like this with hairspray just spray one end and sniff the other end

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Hi, I'm very interested in this thread, I want to get back into model-building if I can use an airbrush! I live in a shared, rented flat with no garden, garage, or any kind of 'utility' space so any modelbuilding would have to be done in my bedroom, which does have a lovely big sash window and nice wide windowledge. No ugly PVC-framed double-glazing here! I'd like to put a spray-booth on the windowsill and vent it straight out the window.

The critical question is: if I use a DIY spraybooth like the ones described in this thread, can I airbrush enamel paints without risk (OK, with low risk) of contaminating my room with the smell of enamel paint and losing my tenancy deposit?

Would like to stress that the paints would be enamel!

I have never used an airbrush, but I've read a review of the Airbrush-Pro range that convinced me that a decent airbrush+compressor system can be had for roughly £100+vat+p&p. Very much want to order one but really don't want to incur the Wrath Of The Landlord!