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[onlyonepinman 18062xp 10]

I have been having a go with my airbrush.  This is only my second airbrush attempt.

The model is from Kore and is an early prototype from an upcoming kickstarer. How have I got my hands on one of these? Well, apparently I impressed Kore with my work painting up some 32mm scaled street cars and I was asked to paint some vehicles for their webstore and to take to shows. Before anyone asks, I wasn’t paid, I did it simply because I enjoyed painting them. And also to get early access to the sci-fi cars lol. This particular specimin is known as the Manta. It was painted using a metallic red airbrush paint and a simple gloss varnish to give it the same glossy sheen that most modern cars have. No washes. No shading or highlighting. I basically let the gloss varnish do the work. The reason I take this approach, and did so with the modern street vehicles, is because they’re scenery pieces. They’re not the centre of attention, they just need to look believable from about 3′ away.