Scale Model Tips - How To Airbrush Nail Polish For Plastic Models & Gundam
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- In this video I show you how to airbrush nail polish for your plastic scale models. If you follow my directions here you shouldn't have any troubles.
I found that they spray fine over bare plastic and primer is not needed. You will however might require certain colors as a base for other colors as some of these are on the transparent side of paints.
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Wife: Honey, how sweet! You bought me lots of nail polish!
Husband: (profusely sweating then runs to the basement)
Sixty-five years ago I built my first model, an F9F Cougar molded in dark blue plastic. After the decals I used mom's red nail polish on the engine intakes, and it looked wonderful!.....to an eight year old.
It pleases me to no end seeing people finally catching up on my early, ground breaking research.
You were way ahead of your time 😉
LOL
I started using FNP almost 30 yrs ago for doing my 1/64 scale diecast ( Hot Wheels and Matchbox) customs because I could get really cool colors without breaking the bank. Still doing customs after 40+ years, still using FNP and now starting to use the Hobby water based acrylics
Confession: Every time I watch and rewatch your videos I always stare and admire all the stuff on your bench. Long live the Obsessor of Tools Club! lol
Great work as always! Happy 4th of July to you and keep safe!
I would like to be the president of that club
Just subscribed, I'm in the UK and I'm recuperating after an operation so ive started trying my hand at doing up old Matchbox cars and airbrushing them, your videos have been invaluable, I'm amazed at the variety of of different paints you can use in an airbrush. You have inspired me and given the confidence to experiment especially after seeing the results you have have had with the nail varnishes. Cheers 👍💅
Cheers buddy and thanks for watching
Great hobby....I restore both Matchbox and Hot Wheel Redlines
I do Airbrush Designs on Nails and i have learned so much from this video. This is the best in depth and informative tutorial/review/suggestion video I've seen so far. Thank you for sharing your great knowledge.
As someone who likes to experiment with their nail polish and make-up as an art medium this was amazing!
I've been watching your channel for about a month now, I have been enjoying your enthusiasm and excitement about trying new things to get results that might seem outside the box. Thank you.
I think the issue you're having with the color not matching the bottle color is how thin nail polish is when run through the airbrush. When the ladies have their nails done it straight from the bottle and applied fairly thick. When its atomized with the airbrush you are spraying thin coats over plastic with a darker background on much of your spoons. All nail polish is applied thickly and with no thinner in a nail salon. Just something to think about.
First of the bat, Thank you for bringing these great and informative videos. You take the time to show what colours and products work best. I look forward to others up and coming soon. It's also good to see your new paint booth work's, Must invest in one sooner than later. Cheers.
Another excellent video. I have been wondering for a long time how spray painting nail polish was possible. I never realised that you could use Mr Color Leveling thinner for this. It would seem that this is one of the best products to have on your modelling bench, without a doubt!
But as a previous subscriber has already said, your videos are inspiring and give us the confidence to try new painting products and techniques.
My spray painting using Tamiya acrylic lacquers and Vallejo Air paints has improved no end thanks to your intuitive and helpful videos. There's nothing worse than having a paint job ruined on a model, so a big thank you for your invaluble guidance.
Wow buddy, thank you for this wonderful comment. Mr Leveling Thinner is a must for hobby bench for sure 👍
Great video. I always wondered how nail polish would spray, so many colors to choose from. That flat orange came out terrific!
You absolute madman. You have transcended.
Your airbrushing skills are so advanced! I can hardly wait to see how you airbrush Liquitex acrylics and see if they can be used with detailed model railroad kits. Cheers from Wisconsin.
I would have never thought in a million years in using nail polish! My wife is not going to be happy!😉 Thank you for sharing.
I went to a garage sale some months back and got a box full of these for $50. They are top end ones too and there is some 100 colors. They are great to play around with and used them last Christmas for my girl friends plaster tree hanger things she had and they worked fantastic. Saved me a ton of cash not having to use my expensive model colors...
The UV lamps they use at nail salons are for UV nail polish only. Those UV polishes are also great for small parts if you have a UV lamp. The dollar store polishes you bought were sheer polishes which is why you didn’t get as good results from them. Sheer polishes dry translucent. They need a base coat. Nail polish thinner works but not the acetone cuz the acetone breaks down the hardener in the polish. Nail polish thinner has no acetone it just has more of the clear hardeners and softeners in them kinda like some airbrush paints use brush lube.
I believe those uv clear gel stuff are so good on lenses for weapons. I've seen some modelers make great uses
Rex, and anybody, should also keep in mind that these are not meant to be airbrushed! Nail polish is usually applied in coats far too thick for any sane scale modeler to ever want to use. So, when thinned down for an airbrush, and applied in super thin coats... *of course* almost any colour underneath is going to bleed through! (And proved the point himself, after bemoaning the difference, by brushing them on the way their meant to be used.. and got the exact colour they show.)
@@timpawloski7942 the colors match just fine, the only problem was for the cheaper ones he bought sheer polish which dries translucent. Not his fault, they don’t label the cheap stuff properly so you have to check by how it wipes on the bottle neck and sometimes they sit too long so you can’t tell unless you bring your vortex mixer to the dollar store or take the 1 dollar chance. Either way a black base coat will take care of that so just always buy a black polish to go along with it.
@@Blu3ManiC Not according to what he said throughout the video. As he said, and can be seen at the end, *every* nail polish came out lighter/darker, and "not an exact match" like he was expecting. ...Until he used them the way they were meant to be used.
The 'type' didn't matter in this. You're taking a colour that is meant to go on at a certain thickness, and thinning it down to less than 1/10th of the original. Naturally anything is going to bleed through in that condition. O_o
@@timpawloski7942 all paints change hue depending on the base color, that’s not exclusive to nail polish. The ones he brushed and had “trouble” with (including the dollar store) all happened to be sheer, you can see even the heavy layer didnt dry completely to the bottle color with the exception of the mattes which are almost never sheer, metallic nail polishes are also sheer because the majority of the pigment is in the metallic powder. They will settle on flat surfaces and look solid in most cases though.
It works! I use these to paint custom colors on private planes & use pastel colors on high priority freight cars on my club railroad cars. Colors like white, orange, yellow were used for perishable goods RR refers. Combination paint schemes were used for fast freight (dry goods) cars. The colors made the cars stand out in a yard full of RR cars & identified the cars as priority moves without reading car order papers. I like being different & the club RR superintendent like that we stood out. Rolling stock was usually painted red brown, black, dark green or brown so the dirt didn't show much.
Never even thought of this. That's dope
Me too.. this is the best hobby paint tester guy.. lol
If you can atomize it, you can run it through the airbrush. I’ve experimented with all kinds of stuff, but I’m the same, I never thought of nail polish.
Gundam Pros was great, i got to meet Walter he's a great guy, New Bedford is where I'm from, thanks to you Ill never have to order Mr color paints online ever again. I lived in New Bedford most of my life and never knew gundam pros was in my own city. I really like the the video on spraying nail polish. You do the the modeling community a great service,i've saved so much money by watching your videos and learned so much. I've been building models since 1971, when i was 8 years old. I'm 59 now and still love it.( Request).... it would be nice if you revisit the nail polish again some day. I would like to see how they come out if you spray over real nail color,the human skin tone is kind of like a tanish pink color that is what nail polish goes over in real life,a base coat of light tan or some type of natural skin tone would be awesome,if you ever have the time. SIDE NOTE... I noticed you like( FATES WARNING)..Me too i seen them 3 times live in Provedence RI. back in the 90's. met the whole band in person. Anyway keep up the great work.you have one of the best channels on youtube..... hope to meet you in person some day since we live so close together, HAPPY EASTER.
Taking notes for painting guitars, believe it or not...Thanks so much!
It was glittery nail varnish I used on my Moebius Catwoman. I did have to strain the larger metallic flakes out using a paint strainer, but it did give a lovely textured glittery finish, an ideal match for the Julie Newmarr Catwoman costume.
Next week, "How to airbrush your favorite BBQ sauce"
Love it, keep up the awesome work!
ONCE AGAIN, BARBATOS REX IS THE COOLIES DUDE AROUND!
Excellent video, very descriptive and super useful to see your process, the results and also your recommendations too. Great to see how excited you get with paints and finishing! Thanks very much :D
You're welcome Steve, thanks for watching
Reds are always very difficult to paint because they are usually very transparent (not clear like a candy, but have low pigmentation). The only way you can get the red to match what it looks like in the bottle is by spraying over a solid red basecoat.
Learn a hell of a lot from watching your videos
when i was younger i just straight paint the nail polish on the gundams instead of airbrushing so that they could stick to the plastic and isnt too runny and the finish is pretty smooth albeit on the thick side but the colors remain true
Once you have the right viscosity it is super good to dip canopies in
As an addition, wonder what the gold color looks like over the darker silver
Amazing, I will have to try and experiment on this. Thank you for the for this great how to vid, looking forward for more :)
Thanks a lot for all your great tutoriais. We learn a lot and save a great bunch of time. Keep the good work!
I’ve seen people use them but never really seen results. Awesome review. Will be picking some up.👍
You gotta try Jacquard Pearl-Ex mica pigment powders and the respective Pearl-Ex varnish. You can make them into a airbrush-able liquid and the pigments are simply amazing. Thins to a good consistency with water or their varnish for stunning pearlescent colours.
Always pinching my wife’s polish she’s had enough I’ve got to use my own wtf 😂 ps the clearcote makes great waterfalls and oil effects. Great vid by the way👌😎
Immensely informative video. Thanks for doing this
You're welcome Joe
I MUST TRY TO AIRBRUSH NAIL POLISH ON MY NEXT MODEL!
Try using the matte orange over white and top coat it with the more expensive gold leaf, you can also use the dollar store red and top coat it with the more expensive red metallic. I've had some really good finishes on the real cars using a cheap fleet color that is close to the finish color I'm wanting and then use the nice metallic as a mid coat and finish it with a good clear, if you want a little depth on your finish add equal clear, thinner, and the top color and lightly dust a couple of coats on. But make sure it's thoroughly dry before adding the clear finish coats so you won't streak or blotch the metallic in the color coats, that will make the final finish look a foot deep.
Damn real excited for this series
Another great vid, looking forward to the acrylic tube paint tests 🤘
Ethyl Acetate is a solvent to try. Its slower than acetone, .. I use a LOT of it with classic solvent model railroad paints
Wow! Who’d have thought of using nail polish! You did good Rex!
Thanks buddy
@@barbatosrex9473 no problemo! Love your videos. Very informative!
Another fascinating video, I've enjoyed every second. If I had a tenth of your setup no one would ever see me lol. I'm trying to get a decent airbrush and compressor along with all the bits and pieces. In the meantime I'm enjoying watching your videos along with others painting lures etc. Do you have any ideas to gain different textures on small objects such as fishing lures?
Thank you for sharing your videos I really appreciate it. Take care 👍😷👍🏴
Another great video. There are some great colors right out of the jar.
Be interesting going over to old mates place for a BBQ. They bring the pavlova out and pass the spoons around. Lol. Cheers Graham
I'm gonna go try some nail polish and use klean strip Lacquer thinner
How did that work for you?
I really like your channel it's very educational helps all the modelers of all genres but you are crazy man airbrushing nail polish colors I'm not wasting my unicorn Tears For This but seriously there are some cool colors but I'm not a Gundam guy I'm straight-up armor modler I do to build planes occasionally not very good at it and build the cars again I'm not very good at it but I love me some armor I might my next build I might build this wooden Portuguese sailing ship
I also only build armor kits, but I also have planes and a jeep in my kit collection so I will build it eventually.
Nice job. Great sleuthing! Really appreciated.
You can use/ mix laquire flow to lacquire thinner sir it will delay the dry of the paint,
I would like to see a test with the crazier nail polish stuff. Imagine using holo nail polish to paint a model car to give it a pearlescent look.
Good idea!!!!!!
Good stuff going with the nails polish paint🎨 , nice video
That mint over black looks like som weathered steel.... add a little rust and perfect for props, ships or rat rods
Great review as always,! Thanks man! Love your channel
Blownaway....great ,fantastic tip,thanks and happy 4th of July...enjoy👌👌👌👌👌👌
Wow, awesome!! I just got an Iwata Eclipse. I hear it does well with thick paint. Im gonna sub!
Welcome aboard 👍
Thank you for this overview, it was very informative. Is there anything different in cleaning the airbrush after using nail polish ? Thanks again
Not really, just a shot of acetone or thinner and you're good to go
Great vid, thanks for sharing!!
That glossy reddish-pink was offered on Ford pickups and personal cars like Cougars and Lincolns in the late '70's - early '80's
68 Cougar, nice car 👍
You say a few times that you didn't like the dollar store one... But why not? In what way we they deficient.
I'd also love to see how they work with some of the acrylic thinners you use like windshield wiper fluid or isopropanol/water mixes.... These aren't actually typical lacquers after all...
I dont think you can thinn them down with isopropyl alcohol and windshield witch is basicly metanol, you most likely need a cellulose based/laqcuer thinner or acetone with some retarder or else it will dry wery rapidly and might clog up youre airbrush.
wow seen this friday on a vid from another fiend you nailed it thanks dou scooter d
AS I'VE SAYED IN THE PAST, BARBATOS REX IS A COOL DUDE!
I always use lacquer primer too
Great demos!! Thx!!
Thanks buddy and thanks for watching
Hello I just wanted to let you know that Igel beauty carries a set of 1 gel polish and 1 regular polish for only $4.50!
Thank you for sharing my friend 👋👍👍
THIS IS AN AWESOME VIDEO! CAN YOU THIN THESE WITH REGULAR LACQUER THINNER FROM HOME DEPOT AND CAN YOU USE RUSTOLEUM CLEAR?
remember that most nail polishes are brushed on the fingernails in a slightly thicker even coat and are self leveling for the most part.
Great how too thanks for sharing by the way do you know anything about action camera if you can use it as a Webcam?
nice test!
Great.. one more option in our arsonal.. When you do your video on the Tube Acrylics, can you speak to the issue of Gloss or matt.. I was looking at these at the hobby store, but none of them really said if they were gloss or matt, and so I wasn't sure about trying them?
Can you please suggest another thinner for nail polish I can mix for the spray Gun..... I do appreciate the videos, and you taking your time to inform people... Blessing and Thank you so much.... Ps , and where is a good place to purchase this one other that EBay or Amozon,in case you run out and need it quick.😊
OK so you could use acetone to thin it if you wanted to? I do nails and airbrush nails, it drying fast works for me I just want to make sure there is no other reason not to use it. Also with what should I clean my airbrush with after using nail polish?
Barbatos, I'll spray anything, Rex.... thanks for posting this
Thanks for watching 👍
I was just at Hobby Lobby and dollar general and Walmart and 2 had a huge discount discontinued
Nice 👍
I love how that airbrush sprays....you said it has a larger needle? What size
Been waiting for a series with nail polish. What clear do you recommend to go over ? I enjoy all your videos. Keep them coming I'll keep watching. Thank you, Bob.
You're welcome and thanks for watching 👍
Probably any clear coat whatever acrylic or laqcuer will work to seal it in.
Hi Rex, a quick question for you and/or others. Any idea as to what I can use to thin automotive touch up paint? It's a bit too thick to run through my airbrush. Thanks and keep up the great content!
This might be amazing for stuff like qubeley which demands pearl paints
It looks like its pretty hard to develop a solid color out of them, strong enough to match the depth of the jar color. That kinda turns me off because its the jar color that decides if I like it
Just keep in mind that using nail polishes (which are *meant* to be brushed on, and far thicker than simply airbrushing.. o_O), and pick colours accordingly. They'll be lighter as a result, so choose a shade darker, if you really want to use nail polish instead of normal paints (that are meant for airbrushing & scale models).
Ok I’ll get crazy here and ask a question. Since these are and can be extremely high gloss. Can you use this stuff as a new bases for Alclad?
helpful !! thanks!!🌮🌮🍓🍓🍺 crafty use of colored materials!! I'm working on a chess board, I was look'n around in the community/village! & found this!! ''super'' helpful !!
Thanks buddy 👍more videos coming this week about alternative paints for the hobby
Can't believe I just had to dump a metric butt-ton of polish that the wife was not using anymore. ARRRRGGGHHH!!!
Would like to see you try the acrylic paint from 5 below. They sell 8 regular colours and 12 glow colours.
I'll add it to the list 👍
@@barbatosrex9473 thank you very much.
So how would nail polish that's meant to be airbrush look than like OPHIR Airbrush Inks?
hey not a topic for this video but for previous. i was just reding the Tamiya TS -79 semi-gloss can and Ts-80 can i purchased and there's a warning saying not to use these products on decals. I don't get it. i see people use gloss, semi-glosses, matt finishes over decals all the time, be it they come out via airbrush and not can. what gives?
Hallo! New Subscriber here, I found your channel while researching mirror finish paint for my 1/100 Sumo Gold Type. I wanted to say that it is inspired to use nail polish as a paint for modelling! I was crushed because it made me realize that the out of production polish I had thrown away years ago, because I was afraid of putting it on my nails, could have had a second life with my gunpla hobby. Ah, C’est la vie.
I hate to comment with a question but I really, really would like to hear your advice. As I mentioned above I was looking for a mirror finish that I could use to repaint my 1/100 Sumo Gold Type. It is a mirror finish gold already but back in the 90's under gating wasn't common, to my knowledge. Either way, it is crushing to see these dull and dirty spots of dark plastic where I have to snip away the gating. I was hoping you might have some insight into what I could do to cover these, if you are amicable to giving advice.
Of course any comments or advice would be welcomed! I have had the kit sitting mostly unclipped for years, and I want to see it in its full glory next to my Turn A and Turn X.
Edit: Oh! And I would like to make a recommendation, I worked retail for a few years in a Marshalls, and while I worked there you could get high quality polish fairly cheap. Most of my O.P.I polish came in at $4 USD, not so great if you need a specific color but a good way to get a deal.
A couple of weeks ago I tried with a reducer and that was terrible.
Love your efforts to cover all the paint that could be painted on model.. really excited to see how it woud react to bare gunpla.. will it harm/melt a bare gunpla?
I painted a bare Gunpla piece here and it seems to be fine. I even panel lined it. But a primer always will make everything more durable for sure
@@barbatosrex9473 you'll always go the extra mile.. thats why we love your vids
Used nail polish for years to create unique paint jobs, but never used the clear coat base coat.
Have you deliberately chosen non-uv cure nail polish, or was it just luck that you found these. Because of ease of use and quick drying under a UV source, non-uv polishes are becoming pretty hard to get now.
hello there. just thought i would mention. the nail polish only starts to look like the bottle after about 5 coats. also for some reason i find i get a much better finish using tamiya laquer thinner might be because it has retarder in it.
ps thanks fo sharring stay safe hope your holiday was great cooter out
Does your shaker thing work on the un-thinned nail polish
I can just imagin the dollar stores having flocks of dudes coming in to their stores to buy nail polish in bulk.
lol, since the Hobby Lobby near my place never has any hobby paint in stock
@@coffeecool5190 mines does but theirs no point going since no one ever ever goes and the same paint sits in shelves for years (i dont realy know the shelf life for airbrush paints bcuz im new to the hobby) also hobby lobby kinds sucks becuse all they sell is those cheap made but overpriced bob ross art stuff and fibre castell.
I’ve been raiding their nail polish for years for painting fishing lures now I know I can spray em from my brush and they will be running out of polish lol
I guess why the leveling thinner works so good is that it has a retarder in it. So I guess you can use cheap laqcuer thinner if you also have some laqcuer retarder in it.
Yes, this is correct
Why not use enamel reducer
Not sure if you mentioned it, did you also thin the clear?
Pretty sure he did as clearcoats needs to be thinned too.
Yes, I thinned the clear 👍
How good do these do for fine lines and details? I'm planning a guitar build where I want to airbrush the "Captain America" chopper from the movie Easy Rider on a relief carve on the body.
Mr Barbatos what about testing acetone free nailpolish? I think they can be thinned with regular acrylic thinner.
I haven't thought about that, I will check some out and see how it sprays
would you recoment using spraying the top coat 50/50 as a final step for a painted figure? so that it doesnt scratch and such?
Hiya, do you by any chance do any airbrush painting tutorials ?
I've some vids on how to clean one and going over basics but I will be doing a full tutorial soon.