Today is a rather exciting day for me. In order to proceed
with my plant stop motion project, it was necessary for me to order various
bits of equipment and other supplies. The first little tests assignment I’ve
given myself is to build a plastic model kit of a Browning 50 caliber machine
gun.
That model has shown up in the mail. I also had to go rooting through the
storage box to find my old airbrush. I saved up money from a summer job back in
the early 1980s to buy this airbrush. And it still works. However, I haven’t
used it since the early 1980s. For those of you who don’t know how and airbrush
operates a rather simple procedure. The airbrush has little reservoir that
holds your paints and it connects to an air hose on one end and the other end
of the hose connects to an air compressor. Luckily for me I already own the
compressor that I had used in the past for my nail gun. However, the nail gun
adapter was much larger than my teeny-weeny airbrush. So I had to figure out
what type of adapter I needed, then order that as well. That has arrived, and so
has some specially formulated lacquer paints designed to replicate gunmetal. So
it seems as if everything is in place to start my first little test.
I picked the 50 caliber machine gun for very good reason. As
you can see in the pictures below, I’ve already done extensive work in 3D with
this type of weapon. So I’m interested to see if I will be able to port my
skills over from 3D to this real world of tangible model making.
In my hand are 2 bottles of paint that, if used correctly should make my model look like metal. We'll have to see if it works.
Here you can see what I normally do, I feel comfortable with this medium. Never to late to try something new.
