I've owned my airbrush for almost a year now and I have played with it some but I have not had consistent results. I had seen on that great warehouse of ideas, YouTube, how to "heat color" exhaust tips and decided to try the technique on the F2000 model. My logic was "if I mess it up all I have to do is paint it silver again and the mistake is gone." I started with an assembled and painted exhaust system and masked off the pipes up to the junction point. The first color I sprayed on was a light yellow, it went high up the pipe. Next went a pearl red that had to be cut with water, it went 2/3 as far as the yellow. Finally went on a metallic blue that also had to be cut with water and it was concentrated around the tip but went up as far as the yellow. The last two colors are made by Createx. After the colors dried I pulled of the tape and dabbed matte black inside the pipes. I am very pleased with the outcome and installed them on the engine which is now mounted to the car. And as my Humbrol gloss 19 is dead, I will have to stop until I get more in. Momentum = dead.
Pictures in order:
1) masked and ready to paint
2) left with yellow and red, right in the process of blue
3) finished with all three colors
The pipes on the engine
Where the F2000 will have to wait till I get more paint. Looks good though.
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