Micro Airbrushing

In this astonishing DVD presentation, Robert Benedict demonstrates how you can airbrush in the smallest possible scale, including the painting of 23 skulls in the diameter of a dime! The ability to micro airbrush is important for achieving great detail in photorealism, small-scale hobby applications, micro-sized embedded images into your artwork, sharper and enhanced airbrush skills, and more. In this DVD, you’ll learn: * Advanced airbrush techniques * How to deal with tip-dry * How to work with opaque colors * How to flush your airbrush * How to correct mistakes * How to work with low air pressures * How to work with House of Kolor paints * Breathing control * Use of Stabilo pencils * Drills for micro airbrush mastery * How to avoid color spreading * How to mix paint for micro airbrushing * Use of gravity- and bottom-feed airbrushes * How to gauge your airbrush from the surface * Hood to render a dragon mural and graphic onto a small-scale car * How to prep and degrease a model car’s surface * How to improve your freehand airbrush skills * Paint to thinner mixing ratios * Use of retarder * How to properly remove masks * How to prevent pulling up paint with masks And more!

Vince Goodeve Complete Guide to Painting Motorcycle Helmets

This video of Vince Goodeve demonstrates prep, layout, painting, and clearcoating 2 motorcyle helmets in complete detail. From VQ Magazine 2001 Painter of the year, this is a must for any collection.

Introduction to Airbrush

Debbie Eastlack provides excellent beginning airbrush instruction, demonstrating the techniques and principles relevant to all airbrush applications. You'll learn the important differences between single- and double-action airbrushes and how to use them, gravity-fed versus siphon-fed airbrushes, the mechanics and anatomy of an airbrush, how to hold an airbrush, how to master trigger control, freehand skills, types of masking and how to apply them, highlights, how to change colors in your airbrush, how to clean your airbrush, troubleshooting tips, how to avoid tip dry, spidering, barbells, and paint trailing. Exercise drills include hard and soft lines, targeting for line control, distance exercise, cut and blow as you go, the flare stroke, loops, gradations, the cube and sphere shapes, and much more.

llustration Cheap Tricks & Special F/X

Vargas Award winner Michael Cacy reveals time-saving and innovative tricks and special effects from his 30 years of experience. In this presentation, you'll learn how to render wisps of smoke, fur, metal, paper texture, hair, wood grain, background textures, water, clouds, snow, feathers, stone, orange peel, a sky, and a space scene with stars, nebula, starbursts, and constellations. You'll also learn how to use the Stencil Burner Pro, rubber cement for special and unusual textures, markers, circle templates, proper use and types of razor knife cutting, sponges, erasers for highlighting, mylar and drafting film, sandpaper, spray adhesive, frisket film and masks, airbrush cleaner for creative effects, color use, steel wool for brushed metal, and much more. You'll be introduced to unusual materials to spray through, such as woven basket-weave rattan fabric, batting, fiber fill for couds, knit mesh, lace papers, tulle, and more. You'll also learn how to airbrush opaque and transparent acrylics, how to transfer images to a surface, cheap tricks with a variety of paint brushes, style testing for previewing, airbrush pressure regulation, loose masking techniques, freehand airbrushing, how to dry paint faster, and more!

Vince Goodeve Complete Guide to Painting Motorcycle Tanks

This video of Vince Goodeve demonstrates how to prep, basecoat, paint, and clearcoat a motorcycle tank. You'll also learn design layout, airbrush techniques, advanced highlighting, and much, much more from VQ Magazine 2001 Painter of the Year.

TIG Welding Basics

TIG welding has been long recognized as the premier welding process, which can make beautiful, strong welds on nearly any metal. In this easy-to-follow program, Ron Covell covers the basic processes used for TIG welding, covering proper machine setup, joint preparation, electrode selection and preparation, torch techniques, and perhaps most importantly, what to check for when things go wrong! Ron's thoughtful description of the welding process, coupled with the close-up photography that brings the action into clear view makes the seemingly difficult process of TIG welding easy to understand.