Airbrushing, new to me, looking for help advice

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

My son got me this Master Airbrush kit last Christmas, and now I need to get going on using it. Never used on before, never really had to in the past, now I need to with the Skipjack I'm working on. It came with two gravity feed airbrushes and on siphon feed. I also have the color wheel and I bought a 2 foot section of plumbing pipe that will be my practice subject. Along with an oak tag sheet. Still don't have an FSD-STD-595 color deck. There are plenty of pictures, mostly by David, on how to's for painting. But there are questions I have to start. Do I need anything else? I'll start practicing with the paint that came with the kit and progress from there. David got me going on scribing with my Marlin so I'm sure I'll get some kick-ass advice from him (and probably some ridiculing) and others and getting started with airbrushing.

When using decanted paint from spray cans, does the paint need to be thinned at all? Or as is?
Does decanted paint change at all while it is stored in a sealed container? Does any of the thinning agent evaporate away?

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The decanted rattle-can paint has four magic ingredients: the pigment, a resin binder, thinner/solvent, and a propellant.

You need to let the propellant boil off for a day, at room temperature, in your container -- which, during the propellant boil-off, must be sealed with a very loose lid or you'll have a paint explosion (likely in the wee hours of the night when everyone's asleep -- "hey, honey, look at all the pretty colors on the ceiling... and the walls... on the cat... and the floor... and in my hair!").



As rattle-can paint is formulated to squirt out the small nozzle atop the rattle-can, the paint requires no further thinning.

As the thinner/solvent is very volatile it will eventually go away unless your container is tightly sealed. Shelf-life is a year or two.

David

[Ken_NJ]

My son got me this Master Airbrush kit last Christmas, and now I need to get going on using it. Never used on before, never really had to in the past, now I need to with the Skipjack I'm working on. It came with two gravity feed airbrushes and on siphon feed. I also have the color wheel and I bought a 2 foot section of plumbing pipe that will be my practice subject. Along with an oak tag sheet. Still don't have an FSD-STD-595 color deck. There are plenty of pictures, mostly by David, on how to's for painting. But there are questions I have to start. Do I need anything else? I'll start practicing with the paint that came with the kit and progress from there. David got me going on scribing with my Marlin so I'm sure I'll get some kick-ass advice from him (and probably some ridiculing) and others and getting started with airbrushing.

When using decanted paint from spray cans, does the paint need to be thinned at all? Or as is?
Does decanted paint change at all while it is stored in a sealed container? Does any of the thinning agent evaporate away?

Helpful links...
https://forum.rc-sub.com/forum/tips-...ecommendations
https://forum.rc-sub.com/forum/tips-...arkings-part-2