Guild Wars Factions

Airbrushing

Prior to this project, Keirin had no previous experience of airbrushing, he told us.


We already know he's a dab hand with a pencil, as you can see from his practice sketches. As it turns out, drawing with an airbrush isn't that different, according to the man himself. "You just gotta make sure you work from the back forwards, putting the back layers on before you do the highlights."



His first spray was the skull on the drive-bay door (top row) and by the time he moved on to the skulls on each side panel (bottom row) he was a natural.



Next was the pseudo-spiderweb pattern at the bottom of the front bezel, a theme he decided to carry over to the interior of the case.

However, all of this comes at a cost, and starting from scratch didn't help his cause. After the first £29 airbrush broke, Keirin replaced it with one costing £71 and later added another for fine detail work. In total he spent over £200 on airbrushes alone. Factor in paint which worked out to be about £24 per panel, and that is "just standard Holts Dupli-colour paint".

Of course, an airbrush is nothing without air, which were initially costing him £7 per can and would only last long enough to spray one of the skulls pictured. Of course, the right thing to do was to purchase an air compressor, so there was another £50 quid spent.