Painting miniatures with airbrush?

[traveller]

I am considering buying an airbrush for painting vehicles and airplanes, but I wonder if it is also possible to use for painting 28mm miniatures? Grateful for any comments!

[Michi]

I´ve seen that done on GW Space Marines. It worked on the servo armour, but I doubt you could paint faces and clothes very well in small scales like 28mm.

[Captain Blood]

Ioannis, an occasional visitor here at LAF, has someone who does some painting for him who airbrushes 28mm horses to wonderful effect.

Don't really think it would work on the detail of a 28mm human though.

[Hammers]

Ioannis, an occasional visitor here at LAF, has someone who does some painting for him who airbrushes 28mm horses to wonderful effect.

Don't really think it would work on the detail of a 28mm human though.

Painting 28mm humans requries much more skill with a airbrush than with an ordinary brush. I've done some work lately painting camel and it takes quite a bit of experimenting to learn zenith painting techniques with an airbrush.

[kalebdaark]

I'd get the airbrush for your vehicles but 28mm people?   I'd leave that alone with the airbrush.   Practice shading your fleshtones.  I'll skip the teaser pic this time and just give you the straight dope.   

Here's my tutorial on how to get better.  It's called "how to paint naked women" and it does contain miniature nudity, so FYI.

http://skankgame.com/Painting101.html

Basically, what I'm outlining there is to over-train yourself to do detailed shading with a brush, and the effect will probably be close to that "airbrushed" look without all the endless wrangling and clean-up that an airbrush requires.

Well, maybe one more teaser pic so you can see what I mean:

[syrinx0]

Great article.  Its always good to see how other people achieve their finished product.  For me a figure with all flesh still takes forever to paint.