Clear over Single Stage Black Paint

[Ltank]

I have always been good at drawings and painted some in high school art classes.
Bought Iwata Eclipse HP-CS and a Harbor Freight Compressor with a one gallon Reservoir air tank. Been Practicing flames with TCP GLOBAL Airbrush RTS paints but I have the HOK Paints for when I paint in the Spring.

 

[Jim C]

I’m not the expert artist that Jim C is but I have done some airbrushing. You say you’re a newbie and that’s fine - gotta learn sometime. How are your airbrushing skills ? Gonna nail it the first time ? I like to put my clear coat down first, and do my airbrushing then clear over that. Extra work I know and extra cost . The reason for me doing it over clear coat is if I screw up then I can “erase “ it by lightly sanding it off and it won’t disturb the original base coat/color

totally agree. as a matter of fact, all the faux wood i paint on a daily basis is done over day old, sanded single stage. the reason i said for him to just use basecoat is because of what he is doing. real fire is all freehand airbrushing and he is going over a black base. with something like that is just easier to erase by just putting black in the airbrush or a touchup gun and spraying over your mistake or whatever you want to get rid of then just airbrush more fire over it.