i used to be the guy complaining about how airbrush is too cumbersome to use but i just zenithally primed a guy in a few minutes and my brush is spotless, i have seen the light thank you saint venturella

At the second year of using airbrush I found out that pressure can be adjusted. At the fourth year of using airbrush i found out that trigger resistance can be adjusted by screwing the valve. Today I found out that primer should never been released from the nozzle during cleaning. Its only 5-7 years and I became an airbrush master! Thank you, Vince, for another great video!

When priming, follows Cpl Hicks’ advice: ‘Remember, short controlled bursts’

I followed your advice after I purchased my third can of primer for $22. I was over paying those crazy GW prices. $66 dollars for 3 cans, I jumped on Amazon and bought an air brush for $100.

350 vids and still amazing tips. What a wonderful library of information

I wish I had watched this video 4 days ago. I basically broke every single rule. I'll do a deep clean today and start fresh. Thanks!

Great vid. One additional tip that helps with lessening the chance of primer drying in the airbrush cup: use the cup cover. It limits primers access to oxygen, keeping the paint wet longer.

I am completely new to the airbrush and this was very helpful! Thanks!

I'm a beginner with an airbrush and I like to use plastic shot glasses to mix the paint in first. I find since they are clear, it is easier to check the consistency of the paint as I can see it flow down the sides.

Swear to god i come back to this every few months because i keep finding a new snippet anytime i come back. Also I'm still bad at priming but much better than i would be otherwise with this and I'm an airbrush cleaning champ now lol

This video is absolute gold. It answers so much!

Just had my first experience spraying Vallejo white primer this morning, what a disaster! I ended up resorting to the trusty old rattle can but after finding this video, I now know where I went wrong and will be trying it again. Thank you!

One of the things I found when I first tried to airbrush primer was that the primer would chip off extremely easily. Black or white, it didn’t matter. I believe what was happening was that I was holding the airbrush too far back and the paint was drying before it reached the model. I was unable to find any resources that mentioned this problem. It was very frustrating as a beginner.

3:22 lubricate the very senstive area of the nozzle, got it.

Fantastic and helpful content as always Vince, and also extremely timely! I recently picked up an airbrush, and just ordered some Vallejo black and white primer. Definitely feeling more confident about finally getting some minis primed!

i wanna say that this video helped me out so much, some of the stuff was "Omg thats so obv, why didn't i think of that" and other stuff i wouldn't even of thought of. I appreciate you and everything you do for us

Thanks for the tips on the white! I use contrast paints and it's been frustrating dealing with white rattle can primer. Just got my airbrush and eager to try that on my next kit.

Incredible helpful tips! Thanks a lot!

Very informative video! The reflective light for wet primer knowledge is something I really needed to hear. Thank you!

I'll start taking your advice for the white primer. I've having a lot of issues with that one. Thanks for sharing this !!

Amazing tips! I didn't know there was an actual difference between flow improver and thinner. Thanks Vincy V!

Thanks for the advise specific for using White - super helpful.

thinner first is a great tip. Thanks.

you couldn’t be any more of a tutorial god. thank you so much

Thank you so much for the video. I'm new to the hobby and dont have the ability to prime outside. This has made the hobby so much more accessible to me.

Great help Vince. Thanks.

It's me, hi, I'm the guy who has an airbrush and still buys citadel rattle cans. Thanks to this video though, no more! The lightbulb for me was thinner first, then paint! Sucessfully primed up Dante today with pro acryl black and...had the confidence to load up a color and base him up in retributor armour! Wishing I would have used the gold recipe you have though but wasn't sure how that would do through the airbrush. I've watched a lot of other KZfaqrs and really wish I would have landed here first vs 5 months in. Thank you for this wealth of knowledge!

Excellent advice on airbrushing. Video on cleaning airbrush is excellent-a real time saver! Subscribed.

Dropping a little comment to say thank you. Your videos are helping me a great deal in my painting journey and for that, I am grateful

Year old video still doing great work. Thanks so much! Really needed a straightforward laid out workflow for this!

I like the advice on cleaning. I typically like taking the nozzle end off and cleaning up the needle after every session as well. Just don't lose a part down the drain!

really appreciate it Vince, this is probably the most concise video I've seen on the topic and will be an easy recommendation for our new people in escalation league

Thanks for all those great hobby cheating videos Vincent. They really helped me a lot improving my hobby and especially getting started with my airbrush. Small and slow steps I am taking and with a lot of room for improvement but you help me making those steps. So thank you so much!

Thank you for making this! It is exactly what I needed.

So many tips in this video caught things I was doing wrong. Amazing, thanks!

Thank you Vince. Your airbrush videos got me airbrushing confidently! God tier airbrush content.

Massive thanks for the video. Really helped me to understand how to clean during my session and how to thin. Just primed my nemesis invaders in the gloss black primer ready for colour shift paints.

ah! this is a response to a tweet convo we had (i'm sure one of many you've had w/ the community) - amazing, thank you!

This video is so timely since I'm teaching my son how to airbrush. Thanks Vince! -John

I bought myself an airbrush and followed the advise you have given with cleaning and thinning primer / paints. Havent had any issues with the airbrush due to it and I'm so glad I got it. Thankyou so much Vince. You are the MVP of miniature painting.

Awesome video Vince as always it's great to have content that lets me be confident that when something goes awry my fundamentals are not to blame. I'd ask for a video on varnishing through the airbrush, but I'm guessing it's a similar approach. It's just always seemed a little daunting to me for some reason.

Right on time. My spray booth comes in on Wednesday. This will be my first time using an airbrush. This will be a big help. Thanks, Vince.

I've reccomended your airbrush cleaning video to so many people. It's saved me so much time

Great video! I always have problems with white primer. Now it should be smooth sailing!

This was a good tutorial! The advice on turning up the PSI for white primers (and I imagine lighter primers in general like Ivory) is a really good one!

Love the video. I would love more air brush tutorials going forward.

I took the time to learn my PSI settings, bought some dropper bottles to make easily accessible mixes of thinner/flow improver, and my worked on my airbrush technique. I went from priming 7 plague marines in 90 minutes to 77 miniatures in 2 hours! I found having the premade mix of thinner/flow improver in a dropper bottle, as well as IPA, super helpful. Taking the time to pour exact mixes of all 3 into my paint cup was a chore. The dropper bottles make it fast and easy. I wish I bought these 2 dollar dropper bottles sooner!

Watched your airbrushing videos and my leviathan grunts came out absolutely fantastic. I thought it was gonna take years of practice to get anything that good. Thanks!

Just getting my first steps with a basic airbrush, mostly thanks to you. Encountered some learning pains and your videos have been invaluable. Thank you! P.S. - trying to paint some of the new skaven minis, and here is an official encouragement do do some painting tips or guides on painting the few new rats.

Great video. I stumbled upon preloading the cup with thinner on my own awhile back, single greatest tip for enjoyable airbrushing

A well timed video for me personally. I bought an airbrush last year. Kinda been saving it for my stormcast but maybe now is the time.

Perfect for me as a noob airbrusher! Saved! Thanks Paintfather!

As a new air brush user this was super useful, thank you

Thanks for this advice. So many KZfaqrs miss the mark when explaining how to use an airbrush and this really helps me!

Thank you so much for this! I tried winging it priming my first set of minis with my airbrush, and clogging was a huge issue, as was the coverage/durability of my base layers. This video was very helpful! Also the higher PSI for whites helped immensely!

Such a great video!! Thank you for going back basics!!!!!

I find the lid of for the airbrush cup to improve the situation, not only for the paint to not dry but also I find the flow somehow improve, but this might just be my imagination of course.

You’re a first-rate educator. Thanks for your good work.

Thanks Vince I just bought an airbrush (minutes ago) so this was very helpful.

Your Airbrushing videos have helped me immensely Vince. You've taught me trigger control, thinning and cleaning. The airbrush Is my favorite tool to use now. It's a shame that many people are deterred from using this amazing tool.

This is a VERY timely video for me, as it is just this past year that I have begun using the airbrush for priming and adding a base coat of color. Special thanks for the advice on NOT blowing dirty water through the brush but pouring it out instead!

What sort of wizard are you? After a year of hating my $30 airbrush, I stepped up and bought something decent. Then I watched this video and your other one on cleaning your airbrush. I have seen the promised land. It’s so fast and easy now, a joy to use. I look forward to using it. Thank you so much, this has changed my hobby time infinitely.

I've been waiting for this video for a while. Thank you for making it!

Thanks Vince! I don't airbrush much except for priming and this helped. I'd tend to try to get the maximum amount of working time out of the primer in the cup. This is likely what has been messing me up on occasion :)

Another helpful video. Thank you. Just picked up some 97% IPA.

I also got an airbrush as a gift and use it very little because I haven't gotten into that rutine. Good video!

Thanks for this- was having a hell of a time keeping my Stynylrez flowing. Found out my psi was too high, wasn't using thinner, and was asking for trouble blasting out my excess paint. Everything working smoothly now.

Thank you very much! This was a tip I urgently needed. Especially with those airbrush cleaning-cups where you blast excess paint into beeing THE "customers also bought" item.

The humidity here is only below 80% for a few weeks a year; it's like I'm watching videos from another planet. Thanks for great tips from the far off world of eastern Canada, V V!

Even though I've already watched more than a few videos about airbrushing, there was a bunch of helpful stuff here. I'm one of those that dread airbrushing since many of my sessions seem to be 5-10 minutes of painting and then 1 hour + of taking it apart and trying to get it to run properly again.

haha Newbee here! First time using primer on my airbrush, and I did NOT use thinner. After two parts my airbrushed was blocked. Such a pain in the ass. Thanks for the advice in the video

This video is about to change my airbrushing life!

isopropyl alcohol in with the primer, i would never have thought of that. I've recently run into issues with the primer just glooping in the cup and blocking my nozzle within 3 bursts of starting. I figured i need to work on my ratios, i think this video may have just saved me hours of ball ache!

Thank you so much for the advice concerning the mid-cleanning part, with alcohol and water. I tried it today and never had my airbrush stuck in the middle of my painting session like I always do. I've been painting almost every day (started airbrushing 2 weeks ago), and it was such a pain in the attic (that's where I paint). Sincerely from France !

Thanks for the tips. Great video.

Been painting a few years now and never really used my airbrush for bpiming before so was unsure of approximate ratios. With the help of this vid, I was indeed able to prime my model in less time than it took for the video to run. Top notch

Helpful. Some tips I did not hear about till this video.

I just started today and did all wrong already. Thanks for the great video!

I'm not a beginner, but I didn't actually know some of this. Thanks a lot.

Really topical! I had a Facebook post about this the other day when I was having issues specifically with priming with my airbrush. Turned out the primer itself had gone bad and lumpy. New primer solved all the issues.

Excellent presentation. I am a model railroader and it took me decades to figure out what Vince explains here in a matter of minutes. If you are new to airbrushing, this is the best place I've found to start. Thank you Sir. Cheers,

The alcohol was the secret ingredient I was missing to solve priming headaches. Thanks!

Watching this video.. and I gotta admit.. about 3 years of painting with the airbrush, and I never once used thinner. I would spray the Vallejo primers straight. ... though to be fair, I guess that's also why I would get frequent clogs, too, but not immediately, so I figured that was more technique than anything.

A lot of the complaints referred to earlier in the vid is a stage everyone has to grind through as they get used to their brush and how to recognise which problems are which, how to fix them, *THEN* ongoing maintenance (and avoiding the need for said maintenance, as Vince demonstrates so well here) becomes way more easy and routine. Edited to add - backflow and dump technique was probably the biggest improvement to my workflow for longevity between deep cleans. EDIT 2 - an alternative to using white primer is..... Not using white primer. If you want to paint something white, prime it grey (or even black if you're feeling saucy). Once that first prime coat is down, you don't have to use primer any more, so that opens up way more stuff. Pro Acryl Titanium White paint is lovely stuff that thins and sprays nicely, and Daler Rowney FW white ink has wonferful pigmentation. If you're set on using primer, another approach is to go down the smelly route - smelly paints are way more stable when thinned because of the solvents' lower surface tension vs water, and go on way smoother as a result (especially if your thinner has a retarder in it, as the one I'll mention does) Mr Surfacer White + Mr Levelling Thinner will really do the business. Obviously ventilation and using all Isopropanol for cleaning (versus water+iso) are factors for consideration.

Priming, base coats, zenithal and varnishing. It's so worth it! Low learning curve to those things too.

Liked, and saved to my list. Thank you.

Amazing content, thanks Vince. Could you do one covering varnishing with an airbrush too?

Pure white is made from Titanium Dioxide which cannot be ground to as fine of a particle as other pigments. Hence the issues you talked about. Like you, have had no issues using Stynylrez, even right out of the bottle. But I use a .45 to .6 mm tip depending on the brush when priming.

I LOVE using Molotow One4All black as a primer. NJM turned my onto it and it's perfect. It's super thin, flows perfectly through the airbrush, never clogs, and dries glossy and super strong, perfect for the zenithal right after.

THANK YOU. I’ve always felt like airbrush primer primers held back some crucial info and said “see, it’s simple!” This video pointed me to the error I kept making and it’s now resolved. I don’t need to fight my airbrush anymore.

Praise be the squeeze bottle. Bought one with my airbrush 2 years ago and you saved me a lot of unecessary cleaning. It's so fast to change colour and end a painting session. Also I might be the weird one using a seperate siphon just for priming my mini

Oooh, so that's what I did wrong. I dunno where I'd be without you vince haha

Wow, I've been using the exact opposite ratio of paint to thinner. I've been about a 1:4(ish) Vallejo Primer to Airbrush Juice aka your thinner + flow improver cocktail. I'll definitely try putting my thing down, flipping it, and reversing it.

Thanks a lot!

Great video thanks

Great vid 👍 rattle cans are always a nightmare in my climate and airbrush priming was a real hobby saver for me, although as I've gotten more experience I've noticed it's own problems and challenges (that the video covered pretty well!) The big thing for me recently had been primer durability. Especially on larger projects or when I'm doing rougher techniques like oil washes I've found pretty often that primer can come dislodged and leave horrible chips in by 90% done minis, which is a whole other level of frustrating. I've found some stronger than others (some barely stronger than regular paint) but given how thin the layers really are is avoiding this simply a case of always doing multiple layers? Another is that even with my nicest primers certain resin seems to just reject it completely, even after some very thorough cleaning. Rattle cans however don't seem to have this issue, so I don't know if there's something about airbrush primers or certain resin materials that just dont gel with each other. I've also thankfully got a decent supply of iso but it's a whole lot easier getting ahold of methylated spirit (essentially grain alcohol with methanol and purple dye). Are you aware of any issues using this over iso given the colouring and different chemicals (although they're effectively the same thing for paint thinning purposes)?

😆 Love your demonstration of how to clean your airbrush - with what I would consider a disgustingly dirty airbrush! Admittedly I am a bit OCD about cleaning mine - thorough clean between paints and partial strip/re-lube at the end of a session, but it is very satisfying to keep my (quite expensive!) airbrushes in "like new" condition. Also, one of my airbrushes has a castellated tip guard which prevents the use of the blow-back technique. Having said that I have never had any real issues priming with an airbrush. I have a couple of Iwata TRN2's specifically for the job - one for water based paints and one for lacquer based paints. They are decent quality, easy to hold for extended periods thanks to pistol style grips and have the option of large capacity cups. Obviously this is more relevant for my bread-and-butter spaceship models but I find them perfectly suitable for minis too - even 15mm scale soldiers. As always, looking forward to the next video 👍🙂

I bought an airbrush a week ago and the first thing i wanted to do was zenithal priming. I made sure to look at alot of videos in order not to screw anything up but of course I screwed something up. I could not get the white primer (Vallejo Mech White) to go on to the model nicely. You're the first one to bring up the higher PSI and being patient with alot of layers. Thank you for being so thorough in your explanations. Alot of videos skips over details which could be very important to beginners.

I love your tutorial videos.😊🤟🏽

Great stuff friend 👏 👍