The Little World

I have written in another post about Occam’s Airbrush but it was not until I treated myself to the live tutorial series that Phil Flory has produced on basic airbrushing that I realised how many devious pathways of error I have actually trod. And this is just a year or so after getting the sprayer…

A word about Mr. Flory. If you are at all interested in scale plastic modelling you would do well to seek out his Facebook and YouTube efforts. Whether you see them as live things or later in their show cycle, they are all entertaining and all valuable. He knows whereof he speaks, and he speaks well. And best of all…he can do the very thing he speaks about right there on the camera in front of you. It may be rather magical but it is not flim-flam.

The last session I watched treated of clear coats on models…oh, that I had seen this two months ago before I screwed up three models royally at this critical juncture. I have had my lesson in the school of folly, but had I watched Phil I might have been able to avoid the whole shameful episode.

One point he has been able to illustrate is the fact that while there are many paths up the mountain, we only need to climb one to get to the top. Of course, we get to choose the path, but if we stick to it, we rise. In the case of the clear coats he showed how one product that is easy to use can produce the same effect as three other separate items. This may make the sellers of all the other items a little sore – after all they want customers to buy their systems – but you cannot deny the truth of what he says when he does it right there in front of your eyes.

I look forward to getting out into the shop this summer and using up all the rag-tag ends of paint and varnishes in various ways so that I can streamline the system in some of the ways he suggests.