OK, test time. I turned up a basic stencil online and improvised one with the leftover frisket film. Spraying the canvas black was excruciating. I wanted to grab a bristled brush in the worst way, but not exactly an auspicious start. But really, was agonizing just watching other people do it on YT.
Roughly 37 coats later it occurred to me that I had no idea what was going to happen when I put brush to prime. Time for a doodle board. It is nice to have the easel up and not worry about overspray; the booth gets on my nerves after half an hour.
That could have gone better. Now I remember why I ordered a new airbrush. The beast is great for primer and varnish, but it puts out some chunky monkeys. 0.3mm needle or not, it just isn’t precise enough to produce lines as fine as the Grex. When the Grex works.
Oi. I need a solid midline that’s not going to suffer a case of the vapors everytime an iridescent paint winks at it, but also won’t end up passed out in the wood shed marinating in a sherry bottle. I’m really tired of cleaning paint out of places it shouldn’t be. Time to do what I probably should have done in the first place, had I not let myself get distracted by the trigger.
Oh damn. That is a whole other ballgame entirely – from the first friggin line. Like the difference between a HarborFreight reciprocator and a Makita; it feels solid AF. There is a lot to practice, but maybe it’s not impossible. Schnikes.
Pretty much the look on my face.
