Hobby Cheating 213 - How to Clean Your Airbrush Fast
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- In this Hobby Cheating Tutorial, I take you through how to clean your airbrush in less than 30 seconds. Working with the airbrush can be fast and easy, as fast as anything with your brush is you clean in the right way. Hope you enjoy!
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This video taught me how to clean my airbrush and also that i'm not thinning my paints nearly enough.
Thinner is usually better, it's easy enough to do two thin coats, especially with the airbrush. :)
This video taught me I've been doing my airbrushing wrong for 3 years.....damn it
yeah, I just finished deep cleaning my airbrush and i'm thinning more than I used to. Even though the stynylrez primers say "no thinning necessary" I find if I don't thin I get a clog.
This so much this, I think I think enough, but clearly not.
@@VinceVenturella I struggle with either having the paint too thick and clogging the nozzle or so thin that it the paint runs on miniature (in a spider web manner), even at sub 1 bar.
Funny how I have been a hardcore airbrush user for the last 4 years and Vince proves there are still tons of things to learn. You are a pillar to this community Vince. The amount, quality and worth of your content is really second to none.
Excellent, happy to help as always. :)
The pot you spray into is to stop vapors getting into your lungs.
If you paint with lacquers it is important
you wear a mask anyway. no pot needed
Sir, you’ve convinced me to buy an airbrush. A cheap one, but it works. After watching this movie, I’m able to do 15 minutes (looking at the clock, not in my head) sessions, and had no clogging issues yet. While I admire other artists, I find you to be a true scholar and teacher in the “ways of painting minis”. Thank you. Truly, thank you.
Glad I could help
Only comment I'd add would be to rotate the needle while it's still fully seated to check for paint underneath. You don't want to remove the needle through the seals if paint is in fact stuck under it. Pulling dried paint through the seals is equally as bad.
Good tip for sure. :)
I always take the needle out of the front for that reason. I have once ruined a seal set by taking it out of the back.
Been airbrushing for years. Watched this and realised how much work I've been creating for myself all this time. Followed the advice last night and airbrushed better and spent less time cleaning. Thanks!
So glad I watched this, really illuminated what I was doing wrong... Not thin enough!! Straight to the point golden knowledge. Cheers
Very happy to help!
This has made painting fun again. Best video I have seen.
Thank you so much 😀
I love your Hobby Cheating videos and applying your techniques to airbrushing my model railroad. This video made me enjoy airbrushing even more as I can change colors and work on multiple models while the others are drying
Wonderful, happy to help as always. :)
Going for my first time airbrushing this afternoon. This video is probably my most watched on YT
That's awesome to hear - you can do it!
@@VinceVenturella You know what's awesome, that you replied to a ..5? year old video :D
Yeah thanks! To be honest, I don't know if I did very well. I had some issues with backflowing my Harder & Steenbeck, because of the beak. I was also afraid of pinching it too hard, but then it wouldn't backflow at all and I think I did actually already clog it a bit (it backflows even when I'm not deliberately doing it) , even though I went out of the gate practicing cleaning and literally dropping in 15 drops of thinner for two medium brushes of GW Warpstone Glow. I think it is, because I didn't use the correct soap in the beginning. When you said Windex, I looked it up on Google and it also said Glassex, which I had at home..but that didn't feel like it was working, so I moved to regular handsoap. I'm thinking I may have messed up in the cleaning part there.
Either way, I'm not going to give up. I'll consider this a learning needle and the Infinity came with two sizes, so I can always defer to the .4. For now, I'm practicing control, messing up some Assault Intercessors, of which I will have many more, whether I want to or not.
Thanks for all the great videos
Might be *the* single most useful airbrush tutorial for the beginner. After a weekend Imperial Knight class, I can confirm two 8+ hour sessions of this being the only way this man swaps colors/cleans with his airbrush.
Thank you! Which class were you in (hard to tell from Screen name. :) )
@@VinceVenturella The one in Holt MI (near Lansing). I was the complete neophite in the back, Marco. There were 2 other cool guys and we came up with a goofy team name (that I now forget).
I was over my head, but my painting improved exponentially. Thank you!
@@VinceVenturella are you still offering classes?
@@tietoppers I will return to classes in 2022 when we are hopefully on the full other side of the pandemic.
I'm about 5 minutes in and this already feels like it's going to being lifechanging (or at least airbrush painting lifechanging.) That first cleaning tip makes so much sense.
I hope so!
@@VinceVenturella I'm one of those frustrated self taught airbrush users. I've developed many of the bad habits you highlight here. It's easy to see and understand how the practices you describe will improve my airbrushing.
Been airbrushing for years but still learned a few things. Thanks, great video.
Glad to help
Great video. I'm obviously not thinning my paints enough. The not spraying paint to clean the brush tip is gold.
Glad it was helpful!
Video Suggestion: Sealing a model with varnish through an airbrush. Heard so many methods on how to do it. Add thinner, don’t add thinker, use floor polish with thinner etc. probably a quickie video but could be helpful to people.
Good idea, I have a sort of super varnish video planned at some point in the future.
Thanks for the super easy and down to the basics tutorial. These vids and taking the CK 101 class really have been a lifesaver!
Excellent, happy to help as always. :)
I love this. It’s such a simple useful skill that you don’t know until you know. Thanks for always sharing your knowledge to help us all out:)
Happy to help as always. :)
This is very helpful! Have avoided using my airbrush because I fear clogging it up and not being able to put it back together. Plus all the work changing colors. This video makes me feel more at ease now. I'm just starting out using an airbrush in the last week or so.
Fantastic! Always happy to help.
I used to hate getting out the airbrush to paint - the cleaning offset how much painting/shading/undercoating that I got done. Then I saw this video and I'm enjoying laying down thin coats with airbrushing again. The key for me was getting the squirt bottle (tattoo artist's spray bottle), thinning the paints and not spraying out loads of paint through the nib helped too. Thanks Vince!
That's awesome, always happy to help. :)
Honestly the most underrated hobby series on TH-cam! A real shame that it has taken so long for a straight forward how to clean the airbrush video.
Yeah, I am not sure how I didn't come to this one sooner.
@@VinceVenturella Did not mean it as a criticism, this series has helped me a lot in the hobby!
@@AcropolisGames Didn't take it as one, I am genuinely curious myself. ;)
Thank you for the advice. I watched a couple of your air brush videos and am already feeling much more confident about starting on this journey!
Fantastic to hear! Always happy to help.
i've been airbrushing for about 6 months now, always cleaned/flushed through the nozzle, never made the connection between that and drytip. *facepalm* once again, you have enlightened me. Your knowledge and this channel is an invaluable resource. thank you.
Glad it helped :)
I’ve been saying the exact thing about those pot cleaners. I use an old jellybean tub with paper towels in it. No lid, so I can wash and shoot in the same tub. Showed my wife this video and I got ok, your right. Vince I’m now getting that tattooed on my chest. I’m right. It even sounds strange to here her say it. Love you.
Right on. :)
Thanks very much . This was the part that put me off airbrushing for years . Wish I'd seen this video sooner
Glad it helped
Wow!! I wasn’t actually expecting this to be game changing but it was! Thank you so much!!!
Great video especially for a first time user of the air brush thank you 😊
This is without a doubt the best airbrush tutorial I have seen so far. I'm just getting started, and I'm glad I saw this before I started playing. Thank you so much. And by the way, your delivery is very entertaining LOL
Awesome, glad to help. :)
This really should be required viewing for all new airbrush users. Well done, Vince!
Thank you, glad it was helpful.
i have my first airbrush and used it 3 times and i was wondering why its clogging. now i know why! i push my cup totally dry through the nossle! one of the best videos on dont mess up your airbrush!
I'm just getting back into painting minis after 6 years or so off. I can't like your content enough, thanks for all the information you've provided.
Thanks for this video Vince. I have just picked up an airbrush and watched lots of videos on cleaning and has made it sound like such a difficult task. This is probably the most useful and no nonsense video I have seen. Will be using this method going forwards. Also thanks for including some ratios too reference thinner and paints. Removed a lot of worries about jumping straight in.
Awesome, happy to help as always. :)
Possibly your most useful video ever, this stuff is not self explanatory and you just saved me and I bet a whole bunch of people a ton of trial and error! Cheers Vince 🖒
Awesome, happy to help as always. :)
This has really helped me to save time, I was doing it all wrong for many years! Thank you Vince
Always happy to help. :)
This video was incredibly helpful. I am just beginning to learn airbrushing, and with it, all the necessary maintenance. Your approach to cleaning makes the most sense. To be sure, it seems counter-intuitive to blow everything out the nozzle. I am really really glad I came across your videos. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Since this video I have had 0 clogs- Vince is the man, respect the man
Awesome, happy to help as always. :)
I really do not know how far I got into this hobby without finding your videos. Thank you.
Glad you like them! Always happy to help. :)
New to the hobby…was struggling with tip dry/clogging. I followed these recommendations and just had the best painting session…no issues at all. Thanks for the tips!!!
Great to hear!
older video, but thank you sir, as I dive deeper and deeper into airbrushing which I am really starting to love, I thought there has to be a faster way to clean between colors, and you have provided it, thank you
Glad I could help
Well, if you're using acrylics, you can take the paint off. But, that's only if you're planning on taking off ALL the paint and not just a particular section. I had to remove paint multiple times in my process of trying to learn how to use an airbrush. Just use alcohol and make sure you wash the alcohol off with some sort of cleaner, such as dish soap, Simple Green, 409 or...whatever and then rinsing it off with plain water immediately after getting the paint off. And, even with enamels, you can get the paint off using thinner but it's a tedious process and then you have to make sure you don't leave it on too long and wash it all off using a cleaner and then rinsing it off.
I'm literally learning along with you...thank you sir for sharing!
Thanks for the great video. I'm new to air brushing and some of the complaints mentioned in the beginning was exactly what I was thinking. I purchased a couple of cheap plastic models to learn air brushing and rhe first one was a pain changing colors, I can't wait to try this new way on the next model and see how it makes thing more fun. Again, thanks for the great informative video.
Glad it was helpful!
I credit this video with reinvigorating my interest in using my airbrush, I had done a ton of priming and basing, but I've branched out more because I use this superior cleaning method. Thanks, dogg!
Glad it was helpful!
Hello Vince! I got an airbrush AND HATED the amount of cleaning so much that I almost never used it.only for priming when I had to do a huge amount of Minis.
So many videos told me to clean in x way and I followed their advice that it took up to 15 minutes every time to change a color. Also Vallejo model thiner says that you should use way less thinner than you did. Turns out your areright and I will pick up my airbrush more often from now on. Thanksa lot! You probably hear this a lot but you changed my hobbying a lot
Awesome to hear!
I learned this cleaning technique from Vince a while back from one of his other painting tutorials. It helped so much. Made using my airbrushes so much more pleasurable. So glad he made a video dedicated to it. Now I can link it to people who ask how to clean their brushes. Thanks Vince.
Excellent, happy to help.
Thank you, with little time to paint i took your advice to get an airbrush. Saves so much time and gets a better result on base costing to be worth the cost.
Excellent, it's my best hobby investment ever for sure.
I have been brush painting as a hobbyist for years because I just don't want to clean an airbursh. You sir have just blown my mind. Buying one tomorrow! Thanks a million!
Awesome! Happy to help. :)
Thank YOU.....VERY informative....only the second video on cleaning I have seen....never cleaned an airbrush as yet...just getting the idea before I even touch my airbrush in the weeks to come. Thanks again.
Glad it helped - I have lots of videos on the airbrush and if you have any questions, I am always happy to help. :)
Just like everyone else here I want to sincerely thank you sir! I have h&s evolution silverline and it's imposible to close it's nozzle with fingers, so i grabbed a cap from a pen and it worked great. I didn't got a single clog through the evening and had not to clean my airbrush with IPS every freaking 20 minutes. I poured like 2 liters of this stuff just to clean my airbrush, for like 20 miniatures in past couple months.
Glad to help :)
Just bought my airbrush, didnt before because of the "maintenance". This video is gold! Thank you for all the amazing content for any possible mini-painting related question!
Great to hear!
Loved this video! Total game changer! Love the background music to it too! Can't wait for more!!
Thank you, finally decided to add some music 200 videos in. ;)
Am thinking of buying my self one for my birthday. And I am loving the information. Thank you for shearing
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks a ton for this vid. I have been looking for this kind of instruction, clear and concise, since I started down the airbrushing path a year ago. I think it's easy for people who use the airbrush day in and out for years to take a lot for granted. They just can no longer relate to the beginner's plight. You sir, have hit the nail on the head. I have nearly given up a couple of times. May you never have another dry tip for the rest of your time, even when using unreduced white pearl metalflake in Arizona.
Well thank you, always happy to help. :)
Best video on airbrushing I've seen so far. Just starting out learning aribrushing and the one daunting aspect for me has been watching some users completely pull this apart to its smallest compenents to clean. I rather clean a brush after working since its so much less time consuming. That is until I watch THIS video! HUGE eye opener for me. Nicely done!
Glad it was helpful!
I was directed to this video after discussing how my airbrush had just arrived, and already I'm feeling more confident in getting started.
You also saved me a few dollars as I was definitely going to grab one of those pots! Haha
Thanks Vince!!!
Excellent
Thank you so much. You got me to finally start airbrushing today and I'm having a blast. So fast and easy to get a bunch of work done and looking great. Honestly had an airbrush for yrs and never used it as it was daunting and now I don't know why. Thanks again
Glad I could help!
Update. I broke the tip off the airbrush haha. But I am not discouraged and will get a machine that is not 30 bucks. Thanks again
Finally, an airbrush cleaning video that makes common sense. Thank you Vince.
Glad it was helpful!
Vince, thank you as always. Because of what you have taught me, I put in over 200 hours on my airbrush before getting clogged and then doing a deep clean. I followed your protocol when switching colors and that’s all it ever took, besides a needle clean. No deep cleaning in all that time. I’ll be doing deep cleanings in the future, infrequent as they may be. 😊
Thanks for this! I was cleaning my airbrush in a similar manner but then someone recommended the spray container you showed and I thought I had been doing it wrong and started doing it the other way (the wrong way). Very happy to have seen this video and know I can go back to the much quicker and (it turns out) more effective method I had been using.
The squeezy bottle tip is great too. Got one ordered.
Awesome, welcome back to the good size.
Good side. Sheesh.
Oh, wow. I just learned so much about airbrushing in the last 15 minutes. The most important thing I learned is that I’ve been cleaning my airbrush wrong all these years!
Thank you, happy to help as always. :)
A man of many talents- an "air brush artist" 8:49 and a comedian as well. The complete package... lol. Thanks for the video.
You bet!
After year and 3 months of painting, I finally bought my airbrush and compresor. I'll start using it tomorrow (since I forgot one adapter for my compresor). Thanks again Vincent!
Hope it all went well. :)
Vince, thank you for being such an amazing wealth of information to this community of miniature painters. I dropped some serious dollars on an airbrush setup and struggled. Thanks to this video and your hobby hangout a few weeks(?) ago where you talked about you 80:20 thinner to flow improver ratio I am getting stunning results ( at least for this novice with this device).
That's wonderful to hear, I am happy to help. :)
Thank you for your awesome videos, Vince. I learn so much from them!
Thank you, great to hear and always happy to help. :)
Hi, recently bought myself an airbrush kit etc but have been a little nervous of actually using it. Came across your video and you seemed to have made the daunting thought of cleaning between colours a no-nonsense approach. Going to get it out tomorrow and give it a go, not on anything particular, just mess about getting the feel of it. Thanks a million. Cheers, Rick the Bulldog
Have fun! It's an amazing tool, nothing to be afraid of. :)
Wow! I wish I'd found this video before. I was told I had to disassemble my airbrush each time and I've already lost the nozzle once and had to buy a replacement. Your method is so much better, I'll do it like this from now. Thank you!
Happy to help!
I just finished my very first airbrushing session and using the info in this video it went extremely smoothly and I now have a happy little squad of zenithal'd marines and a nice clean airbrush ready to go for next time. The 20:1 airbrush cleaner to distilled water works perfectly, and will make the little bottle of cleaner I bought go way further than I initially thought. Thanks!
Fantastic, happy to help as always. :)
20:1 airbrush cleaner to water or water to airbrush cleaner?
I got an airbrush for Christmas and I've always been wary of them because I've heard they clog really easily. This gives me so much more hope, lol. Honestly, just knowing that I want to dump rather than spray the excess is probably going to be invaluable, because that never would have occurred to me. I've been a fan of your hobby cheating videos for awhile now and I'm excited to re-watch the airbrush videos and actually have the opportunity to use those tips. :)
Yes, your airbrush will clog, but that's okay., Cleaning it like this AND storing it in water (always, always, always have water in the cup) will go a long, long way to preventing the clogging.
Thanks for this video, Sir! I've been seriously considering using an air brush for awhile now, but always too nervous about potentially ruining it due to improper care/cleaning! This video helped allay my trepidations!
Glad I could help! Always happy to assist. :)
Sir,
Thank you very much for this video. It has been such an outstanding idea that it has changed my hate-hate relationship with my airbrush.
I had been previously trying to blow out the excess into an airbrush pot, only to find that any combination of cleaner would just congeal the paint into a stringy mess. I eventually just use my ultrasonic cleaner after full disassembly to clean between colors.
Now, just using distilled war, spray window cleaner, and a final blow through of denatured alcohol has made color changes a five minute process.
This has made my Zenithal in-house priming an ease which now allows me to actually get to some painting my war-dollies as my wife calls them.
Thank you again.
Pm.
Yeah, this method gives you roughly 30 second paint changes, makes the whole thing so fast. Glad it was helpful.
I have been looking for someone to explain this, this easily, for ages. That's it, I'm subscribing.
Awesome, happy to help and happy to have you along on the hobby journey. There is lots in the playlist to explore. :)
This video helped me bite the bullet and get an airbrush, after 1,5 years of messing with rattlecans.
Thanks so much Vince. I've already zenithal primed well over 60 models, and no clogs or other mishaps.
By the time all my beastmen have been primed I'll have saved myself at least 40 bucks in cans too
Awesome. :)
Very helpful, thank you! Just got my first airbrush, and have been afraid I'll screw it up. Appreciate the simple, straightforward advice.
Awesome, happy to help, it's such a great tool.
This video got me to finally use my airbrush for the first time and I love it. Thanks for giving me the confidence to be like, don't like the color flush it out. Thanks again for these videos
Glad I could help!
Glad I watched again. Thanks Vince
Thanks again!
Excellent informative videos and great sense of humor!
Much appreciated!
Just what I've been looking for.im new to airbrushing and the cleaning frightened the life out of me (so much work)
Excellent, happy to help as always. :)
This was very informative and helpful, i am looking forward to trying this on my next day off that i have multiple projects to work on.
Excellent, happy to help as always.
Really useful video....great how you make the complicated simple for everyone!
Thank you, happy to help as always.
I've been using my airbrush for a good while already so I was pleasantly surprised when I still managed to learn a thing or two from this video! Quite minor things, but more efficient! Thanks pal! :D
Excellent, happy to help as always. :)
Great tip! Took my airbrushing go another level! Keep em coming!
Excellent, happy to help as always. :)
Wow, if i had known that before, that would have saved me countless hours of cleaning. Thanks so much, Vince!
Excellent, happy to help as always. :)
D@mn....I already purchased a cleaning container.....
Thank you for the cleaning video. Very informative.
Vince, this was an AMAZING tutorial. I have been learning to spray for 8 months now, just for models, and I have been disassembling my H&S airbrush and cleaning between paint sprays sometimes multiple time between color changes. Even then I was always getting clogs and chunks of paint all over my work when it wasn't clean enough. I was even about to order a new nozzle for the airbrush, blaming the equipment and not the nut behind the trigger.
I tried what you just demonstrated, and for the first time I changed colors within 30 seconds , without a clog and perfect spray consistency! SUBSCRIBED *\0/ *
Awesome, happy to help as always and glad it's working out for you. :)
This was absolutely vital to my airbrush experience. Thank you!
Happy to help as always. :)
Amazing video. Totally transformed my airbrush use. Thank you! :)
Glad it helped!
Thank you. I just got an airbrush and changing colors seemed to be a chore. I’m so glad I found your video and new sub. 👍
Glad it was helpful! and welcome to the hobby journey.
I've been using your cleaning technique for several months with my crappy ebay airbrush and it's served me well, thank you! I just decided to upgrade to a proper airbrush, got an Infinity CR Plus and wanted to re-watch this - wow you thin your paints so much more than I do. I usually did like a 50:50 mix of thinner to paint + a drop or two of flow aid and it does work ok but I would still get clogs. It seems I should be going much more thin :)
Thinner and a few more layers is always better.
Thanks so much man! Always a life saver and keeping me in the hobby ☺️😁
No problem 👍
This is a fantastic review and EVERYONE should have to watch this when they are new to airbrushing!
Thank you, that is very kind. :)
I just picked up the cordless airbrush that good ol Ninjonny recommended a while back ago. Im finding your videos incredibly useful in getting ready to have a successful airbrush journey lol. Wish me luck
P.S. Ive found many of your videos to be very helpful through my year back in the hobby. Thank you for the great content Vince.
Awesome, thank you!
Thanks Vince. A very timely video for me, as I've been cursing in my airbrush experiences lately. XD
Excellent, hope this helps. :)
Best airbrush video I’ve ever seen
Thanks! Very much appreciated
Bro, you are a life saver - Thank You !!!!
Vince literally could have doodled anything on that paper, yet his muse guided his brush to paint an Ogor portrait.
100%
What can I say, the ogre is in my soul I guess for Tutorials.
Vince, I was ready to throw my airbrush in the trash before I watched your airbrushing videos. I cannot thank you enough for the lessons! You really helped me a lot with airbrushing frustration. I just primed 3 models back to back to back using your methods and it was actually enjoyable for a change. Thank you again!!
Glad to help!
I'm looking to buy an airbrush and clean up was what I am dreading. This helps a lot. Thank-You
Glad I could help!
Actually, I believe you are a very good artist. When I was learning to create portraits, one lesson was to squint until the image became blurred, then check that it was symmetrical. I think you nailed it, my good man. A very good video, thank you. I'm going to subscribe.
Thank you! Very happy to have you along on the hobby journey.
What an ingenious video. Super valuable info.
Glad it was helpful!
Great vid! Didn’t realize how much paint thinner to paint ratio is (almost mostly thinner in this case - 6 total drops of thinner to 3-4 drops of paint, which is weird to beginner like me). I wasted so much paint with thick single pass layered paint vs multiple thin layers of paint.
Nice, just about to start and this is the primary thing on my mind, thanks
You can do it!