Help please

[mossiepilot]

Cheers for the reply Dave, thinks it's more my inexperience than the brush itself, but the more I use it the better I'll get, hopefully.

Tony.

[Gern]

The guys have given you some excellent advice Tony. The only thing I can add is that it's vital to follow their suggestions and keep your A/B clean. I had all the problems you're talking about and every one of them came down to my A/B not being clean enough.

Ever since I spent a day with Steve (Stona) who showed me all the basics, I've not had any problems with my A/B. I've had problems with the paint and getting the finish right - but at least I know my tools are working properly so anything else is down to me.

Gern

[mossiepilot]

Thanks Dave, at first I think I was a little scared about taking the air brush apart to clean it, so was just running water and air brush cleaner through it. But I'm getting the hang of it now, like Laurie said on another thread, I plunged in, carefully mind you, and now it's not so bad.

Cheers again to all for the support.

Tony.

[Guest]

Sorry Laurie,don't understand, do you mean blowing the vallejo cleaner through the brush after soaking the nozzle in water.Cheers

Tony.

Sorry Tony only just caught up here.

No i have confused what I was trying to get over.

When cleaning the brush. After taking the nozzle & with my brush also the needle nozzle protector cage off the brush I dunk both in Vallejo airbrush cleaner & leave while I clean the rest of the brush. I give the nozzle a good squirt with water before dunking to get rid of as much excess paint as possible. Then give the nozzle a good shake to get rid of the water or this will water down the Airbrush cleaner.

Matter of interest. I bought some Wisdom dental sticks which are all plastic ie with out the wire down the centre. Tried them & they seem to do the trick.

Laurie

[mossiepilot]

Thanks for clearing that up Laurie.

What I have been doing recently, which seems to be working is, removing the nozzle, after blowing water through it, and popping it in a little jar of Vallejo air brush cleaner and letting it steep while I clean the rest of the brush. After about 10 mins soaking, I push a very narrow wire, much smaller than the tip orifice, can you say that on a family forum, through to dislodge to last of the paint residue, reassemble, then blow clean water through it to check it's working OK. Will look into these dental sticks you mentioned, as they sound a much better option than the bit of wire I'm currently using.

Cheers

Tony.