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New Alclad 2 Airbrushes

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This just in from our friends over at Red Frog Hobbies: Red Frog Hobbies has been selected as one of the distributor of the new line of airbrushes from Alclad 2 in the USA.  The technical specs are as follow:         Alclad single action Internal mix Item Number: ALC-9200 Description: Alclad Accurate [...]

Moisture Trap for your Airbrush

Vaper Disposable Paper Filter

I came across these disposable filters by mere coincidence. My stepfather uses them for his air tools and huh! They might work equally with my airbrush compressor I thought. I run my AZTEK airbrushes with an old Badger (80-2) diaphragm air compressor. Its old, its noise but knock on wood, this airbrush compressor runs where [...]

Aztek, my airbrush of choice

Aztek Airbrushes

And the question still arrives to my inbox. What airbrush do you recommend for modeling?  This is a question that I don’t have a definitive answer for. There are many good airbrush systems out there and one (or several) might work for you. As I shared almost a year ago, I own a Badger Velocity [...]

Tested! New Alclad 2 Smoke ALC 405

Alclad 2 Smoke Tint

Recently I came across the new Alclad 2 Smoke tint. I decided to give a try so I brought home a bottle. Many model kit builders prefer pastels for post shading, but for *my* taste, I rather airbrush the shading with my AZTEK A470 and the Tan fine detail nozzle.  I’ve been doing this for [...]

Italeri Acrylic Paints

Italery Acrylic Paints

So we stopped last weekend by our local hobby shop for some supplies. Low and behold, the new Italeri Acrylic paint made it to the store showing up their best in a spanking new non-dusty (yet) rack filled with all the new Italeri Paints and Thinners. I couldn’t help but ask my self, do we [...]

New Alclad 2 Klear Kotes

Picture of 1/48 F-86F painted with Alclad2

And Alcad2 does it again! I came across the new line of clear coats from Alclad2 at my local hobby shop, and I was immediately curios. Back in March 2011, the folks at Alclad 2 announced the introduction of 6 new finishes to their product catalog: ALC 311 Klear Kote Light Sheen 4oz/120ml ALC 312 [...]

AZTEK Airbrushes

Aztek Airbrush System

I’ve seen the odd trend on some model building forums of being like an outcast on the model building community. Some folks even refer to it as AZ-CRAP. Well, that’s not my point of view based on little over 12 years using Aztek Airbrushes. So that’s a long time to verse my opinion about Aztek. [...]

A nice digital camera for Model Kit Builders

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If your a model kit builder, you might want to document in pictures your work-in-progress and proudly present and share on the web nice pictures of you beutiful finished models. I’ve seen the question over and over, which would be a good camera to photograph your plastic model kits? Let me tell you in advance, [...]

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