Author Bio
Aaron Skinner built his first model, some kind of racecar in white plastic, when he was 5, and has had at least one model under construction ever since. His modeling interests include armor aircraft, airliners, and science fiction spacecraft. He studied journalism and history at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and worked as a photographer at newspapers in Texas and Arkansas before going to work in 2006 at
FineScale Modeler as an associate editor.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Choosing an airbrush
2 Basic principles
3 Mastering the tool
4 Masking
5 Maintenance and troubleshooting
Projects
1 Armor painting basics
2 Camouflaging a prewar Buffalo
3 Post-shading for a dramatic finish
4 Pre-shading
5 Painting small-scale ships
6 Ferrari automobile gloss paint
7 Stuka aircraft masking
8 Spitfire aircraft masking
9 Dauntless aircraft putty masking
10 T-90 tank putty masking
11 Z26 destroyer dazzle camouflage
12 F-4 Phantom masking camouflage
13 Marder modern armor
14 Messerschmitt
15 Frankenstein monster and bride freehand figure painting