Hobby Basics » Paints

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...

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!

Getting realistic metal wear and making highlights stand out with a simple tried and true technique. One of the oldest techniques in the modellers tool of tricks is drybrushing. It is primarily used these days to simulate worn shiny metal. Track links for instance are constantly abraded by the surface that tanks roll on, wearing the contact points into bright shiny metal highlights. Other parts such as shovels, machine guns can benefit a lot from a little metal drybrushing. Drybrushing...

In Metro Hobbies' collective experience, airbrushing as a skill takes your hobby enjoyment to the next level. Much like learning how to drive, once you learn how, you would begin to wonder why you didn't take that step sooner!