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• Air brush, airbrush gun and paint airbrush: one tool, three spellings, and what an air brush kit holds

  Air brush and airbrush are the same tool spelled two ways. What the parts are called, what an air brush kit contains, and what to ignore.

• Best airbrush for miniatures and the best airbrush for models: choosing an airbrush for miniatures, an airbrush for models, a modelling airbrush or an airbrush for model painting

  What actually makes an airbrush good for miniatures: needle size, feed, trigger action, and why the compressor decides more than the brush.

• Beginner airbrush kit: the best airbrush for beginners, the best airbrush kit, and what a hobby airbrush kit needs

  What a first airbrush setup needs, what to skip, and the mistakes that put beginners off the tool in the first month.

• Airbrush and compressor kit: buying an airbrush kit with compressor, or an airbrush with compressor, as one purchase

  Whether to buy an airbrush and compressor together or separately, what bundles get right, and where they cut corners.

• Airbrush spray booth: what an airbrush booth extracts, and whether you need one

  What a spray booth actually removes, whether a hobby booth is enough for solvent paints, and the cheaper alternatives.

• Airbrush cleaner, airbrush cleaning pot and the airbrush accessories that keep a needle moving

  How to clean an airbrush between colours and at the end of a session, and which cleaning accessories are worth owning.

• Airbrush primer for miniatures, and when to reach for it instead of a can

  When priming through an airbrush beats a rattle can, which primers spray, and how zenithal priming works.

• Silent airbrush compressor: tank or no tank, an airbrush compressor with tank, and airbrush propellant as the alternative

  How quiet a hobby compressor really is, what a tank changes, and whether propellant cans are a serious alternative.

• Kolinsky sable brushes: what kolinsky sable and sable hair are, and how kolinsky brushes, sable brushes and sable paint brushes hold a point

  What kolinsky sable is, why it holds a point, how it compares with synthetic, and what it demands in return.

• Best brushes for miniature painting: the best miniature paint brushes, detail paint brushes, mini paint brushes and tiny paint brushes

  Which brushes miniature painters actually use, why the smallest ones are the wrong answer, and what to buy first.

• Brush soap, brush restorer and brush cleaning: making a sable brush last

  How to wash miniature brushes properly, what brush soap and restorer actually do, and what cannot be recovered.

• Travel brush and travel brushes: a brush roll, a brush case, a paint brush box or a paint brush case

  How to carry miniature brushes without ruining the points, and which of the four common solutions suits which painter.

• Miniature paint storage and model paint storage: racks, drawers and what fits which pot

  How to store hobby paint so you can find it and it does not dry out, and why pot shape decides the rack.

• Miniature painting handle: why painters put the model on a handle

  What a painting handle does for control and for the paint job, and the cheap alternatives that work nearly as well.

• How to paint miniatures: painting miniatures and model painting, from primer to varnish

  The order of operations for a first miniature, why thin coats matter, and the small number of techniques that do most of the work.

• Drybrushing miniatures: what it does and the brush it ruins

  How drybrushing works, where it looks good and where it looks bad, and why it needs a brush you do not care about.

• Base paint for miniatures, and how it differs from primer

  What base paint is for, why it is more heavily pigmented than layer paint, and where it sits in the sequence.

• Colour shift paint: what it is and where it works on a model

  How colour shift paint changes hue with viewing angle, the undercoat it needs, and where it earns its place on a model.

• Best miniature paints: how the miniature paint ranges differ, what miniature paints cost, and where a classic like goblin green paint went

  How the main hobby paint ranges differ in pigment, pot and price, and why the best range is the one you can keep buying.

• Plastic model paint: acrylic model paint, acrylic model paints, model enamel paint and acrylic paint for plastic models

  Acrylic against enamel for plastic kits, what each is good at, and why acrylic dominates miniature painting.

• Plastic model primer: priming a plastic kit so the paint stays on

  Why plastic kits need priming, whether to prime on the sprue, and what mould release does to a paint job.

• Miniature painting in the UK: the miniature painting kit and model painting kit a beginner actually needs

  The short list of things a first miniature painting kit needs, what can wait, and roughly what order to buy in.

• Zenithal priming for miniatures: what a zenithal highlight and zenithal highlighting actually do

  What zenithal priming is, how the two or three spray passes work, and why contrast paints depend on it.

• Speedpaints and hobby paints: what speedpaints do that ordinary hobby paint does not

  How speedpaints differ from conventional hobby paints, what they are good at, and their known quirks.

• Enamel paint for models: modelling paint, paint for models, military paint colours, and where enamel still wins

  What enamel paint does that acrylic does not, the ventilation it demands, and why military modellers still use it.

• Paint rack, painting station and painters table: setting up where you paint, with a painting lamp, a paint mat and a refillable paint pen

  How to set up a painting space that you will actually use, from the rack and the lamp to the mat under it all.

• Paint shaker and vortex paint mixer: getting settled pigment back into suspension

  Why hobby paint separates, what a shaker or vortex mixer does about it, and the cheaper alternatives.

• Weathering paint and weathering powders: rust, dust and wear on a model

  What weathering products do, the order to apply them in, and how to stop a model looking uniformly dirty.

• Non metallic metal and lightning painting: nmm gold, nmm steel and painting light instead of using it

  What non metallic metal is, why painters use it instead of metallic paint, and how the same thinking paints lightning.

• Mini painting for beginners: the best paint for miniatures and what a mini painting set actually gives you

  What mini painting needs at the start, what a starter set covers, and the order to spend in afterwards.