Airbrushing Veil

[erickonphoenix]

Would it be anything like the model kit air brush from Wal-mart, which also uses little cans of propellant.

That's exactly what it is. But if you go to a craft shop you can get bigger cans.

[Stealth Stalker]

Many years ago I was a model airplane geek, so I learned a thing or two about airbrushes. Although things may have changed, really the only difference between the more and less expensive ones was three things:

1. Spray Quality - to be able to go from a very wide spray for larger surfaces to a very, very fine, needle point spray for fine details. And to assure a very even application of droplets. Not really a concern for us here, considering the macro work we're doing.

2. Quality/Durability - whether or not it is a disposable piece of junk that falls apart with much use, which would be just fine for us.

3. Utility - ability to use it with various air sources and adaptors. Again, not terribly important for us.

The thirty buck models, or even less, should be all we need for applying veil. I wouldn't spend any more than the lower models.

[ELVATO]

Gotcha. I guess I'll wait on JDS' results before I go out an buy one, since, well, I don't know if I'll use it for something else.

[category4]

I'm going to try and find an airbrush this week and install it on the F-150 first then the Vette if it goes well on the pickup. I'll try and get some pics to post so you can see before and after type results. All this said with the thought that I will not be working this weekend.

[erickonphoenix]

I'm going to try and find an airbrush this week and install it on the F-150 first then the Vette if it goes well on the pickup. I'll try and get some pics to post so you can see before and after type results. All this said with the thought that I will not be working this weekend.

Warning: I put Veil on my 05 C6 and it blurred the hard edge projection on my Xenon headlights. When I first applied it, it was cool because it was summer time and I didn't drive much at night. But as soon as the time change happened I stripped it off. It really did mess with the effectiveness of the headlights. Something about those Xenon's don't seem to like Veil.

It didn't seem to have as much negative effect on my WRX. Haven't Veiled Sheila yet.

[category4]

Warning: I put Veil on my 05 C6 and it blurred the hard edge projection on my Xenon headlights. When I first applied it, it was cool because it was summer time and I didn't drive much at night. But as soon as the time change happened I stripped it off. It really did mess with the effectiveness of the headlights. Something about those Xenon's don't seem to like Veil.

It didn't seem to have as much negative effect on my WRX. Haven't Veiled Sheila yet.

Thanks for the info, I may try it anyway since I rarely drive the Vette at night. It's a garage queen used on the weekends if it's nice outside .

[JDS]

Warning: I put Veil on my 05 C6 and it blurred the hard edge projection on my Xenon headlights. When I first applied it, it was cool because it was summer time and I didn't drive much at night. But as soon as the time change happened I stripped it off. It really did mess with the effectiveness of the headlights. Something about those Xenon's don't seem to like Veil.

It didn't seem to have as much negative effect on my WRX. Haven't Veiled Sheila yet.

There could be another issue here...I think the angle between the headlight aero cover (and hence the Veil layer) and the direction of the headlight beams. My GLI has very vertical headlights, and the Veil doesn't seem to affect the light output very much (of course, the headlights are utter crap anyway, so nothing's going to make THAT MUCH of a difference anyway...) whereas your Corvette has a very acute angle between the aero covers and the beam direction, and you report a lot of distortion. This certainly isn't enough to draw a conclusion from, but I think it merits more research.

[mswlogo]

Thanks for the info on airbrushes.

If I'm gonna do two cars a few days apart can I reuse the cheapo $30 airbrush? Or should I plan on doing both cars in one shot?

I'd kinda like to take a breather between the jobs and assess my results before doing potentially two bad jobs if you know what I mean.

[erickonphoenix]

Thanks for the info, I may try it anyway since I rarely drive the Vette at night. It's a garage queen used on the weekends if it's nice outside .

Then I think you would be fine I drove mine 20k miles a year.

[erickonphoenix]

Thanks for the info on airbrushes.

If I'm gonna do two cars a few days apart can I reuse the cheapo $30 airbrush? Or should I plan on doing both cars in one shot?

I'd kinda like to take a breather between the jobs and assess my results before doing potentially two bad jobs if you know what I mean.

I suggest a product called Bestine. Fill a ink jar with that stuff, blow the Veil out. Next detach the jar and blow clean air out until dry. Even a cheap airbrush should last a long time if you maintain it like that.