Hobby Basics

Why use an Airbrush at all? Painting with a model with a hand brush is standard, but if you want to level-up your paint finishes, or if you have a large model that take up too much time to hand paint, then airbrushing is a solution. Modern airbrushes and accessories have advanced to a point that even beginners will find it easy to get started. Though this article and the video below is aimed at the beginner modeller, we hope this...

Have you ever wanted to shoot photos of your precious model collection only to be totally disappointed with the results? Colors all wrong and muddy, focus on the background instead of the kit, light falling all wrong on the kit. With the quality of mobile phone cameras ever improving and inexpensive readily available LED lighting, quality scale model photography with your phone is actually not too difficult, provided you know a few basics. The most important element in photography is...

Sometimes you never know when you’ll produce a piece of work you can truly be proud of, unless you take that old kit and begin!

  “As an award winning modeller, if there’s one tool that will take your craft to the next level, it’s an Iwata.” Iwata has been a serious manufacturer of high quality airbrushes, spray guns, compressors and accessories for over ninety years serving thousands of artists and hobbyists all over the globe. Using only State Of The Art technology and materials, Iwata have placed themselves at the forefront of airbrush production. Each airbrush, compressor and accessory in their range are all...