Tip 14. If you shake a suction-feed airbrush to ensure paint homogeneity, hold it by the glass jar, rather than by the airbrush body, lest the jar fall on the floor and spill half the paint.
Tip 15. If homogeneity had not been attained when half the jar’s contents spilled on the floor, the remaining paint may not be the intended color. Spraying it on the airplane may necessitate some rework.
Tip 16. If you buy a new airbrush to dedicate to clear dope (or in this case DBC 500 basecoat clear), do not also use it for clear with sparkles in it. Residual sparkles will lodge in the airbrush and blow out one at a time on your decals and next to your ink lines.
Tip 17. Learn how to spray paint. If you don’t know what you’re doing, your harder-than-diamond Isocyanate Death Paint clearcoat will have ripples and orange peel, requiring lots of sanding with 2000 paper before buffing, particularly tedious over open bays.
Tip 18. When you buff, buff the side of the wing you sanded. However, a) buffing the unsanded side makes the ripples and orange peel easier to see when you do sand, and b) it doesn’t make much difference.