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How Airbrushes Work - Steven Leahy Ref: BOOK-HAW

This new book from Wolfgang Publications explains how to disassemble and clean all the major brands of airbrush. Whether the airbrush is from Japan or Germany, the tools and techniques needed for complete disassembly and cleaning are listed in detail. Common repairs are covered as well. Anyone who's ever wondered how to straighten a bent needle or clean a sticky air valve needs this book. Sealing threads and replacing worn needle seats are covered as well. The best airbrush in the world isn't any good without a source of air.Steve discusses different compressor types and the advantages or disadvantages of each. Is a diaphragm compressor better than a piston-style compressor? And how should that compressor be maintained? Read this book and find out.

Price: £16.99

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Getting Started in Airbrush (softback) Ref: AC-90GSIA

This book includes dozens of airbrush illustrations — plus 22 step-by-step demonstrations of all the basic level airbrush techniques that you can use to create a wide variety of effects when doing a commercial illustration or air-brushing a T-shirt. You'll learn to create popular airbrush images such as fancy lettering, fantasy figures, vehicles, beach scenes and dramatic sunrises.

Price: £17.99

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3. The Complete Studio Handbook (softback) (Ref: BOOK-TCSH)

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The Complete Studio Handbook (softback) Ref: BOOK-TCSH

A versatile tool vital to graphic and fine artists, the airbrush can be fully mastered through this excellent instructional book. The airbrush course covers everything from how to select the model best suited to personal needs to detailed demonstrations of the airbrush's most advanced techniques, using watercolor, gouache, acrylics, oils, alkyds, or inks. Basic applications progress to more challenging ones. 192 pages with 86 color and 198 black-and-white illustrations. Softcover.

Price: £17.99

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1. The Big Book of Airbrush: Basic Techniques and Materials (softback) (Ref: AOB-BBATM)

2. Getting Started in Airbrush (softback) (Ref: AC-90GSIA)

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The Big Book of Airbrush: Basic Techniques and Materials (softback) Ref: AOB-BBATM

Comprehensive, lavishly illustrated and loaded with specific, step by step instruction, this book is for budding illustrators and graphic designers seeking a basic guide to all the aspects of airbrush painting. The Big Book of Airbrush provides a thorough overview of all the equipment, materials and techniques associated with the medium. Artists will learn how to render basic geometric and three dimensional forms, light and shadow, and perspective; how to work with masks and handle colour; and how to use photography as an adjunct medium.

Clearly presented lessons show how to compose finished, professional looking images that incorporate the full range of airbrush effects, from hard-edged reflections on chrome to delicate skin tones. Works by several world renowned airbrush artists are included.

Price: £20.45

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1. The Complete Studio Handbook (softback) (Ref: BOOK-TCSH)

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The Ultimate Airbrush Handbook (softback) Ref: BOOK-UAH

Renowned for its high-gloss, hyper-realistic imagery, airbrush is the medium of choice for commercial illustration and fantasy art and for decorating T-shirts, cars, and motorcycles. But airbrush is also used to create dramatic body and fingernail art and to embellish scale models, decorative objects, and interiors. The Ultimate Airbrush Handbook covers all of these applications and presents basic information on equipment and mediums, airbrush operation, essential exercises, studio setup, and how to develop original source material, all in an easy-to-understand style and format accessible even to beginners. Also featured are special demonstrations by such airbrush luminaries as A. D. Cook, Sheri Hoeger, Kirk Lybecker, Andrea Mistretta, Mark Rush, and Richard Sturdevant. Experienced airbrushers who have—or who want to start—their own businesses will appreciate the wealth of professional tips, tricks, and techniques that are revealed throughout.

Price: £16.95

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3. How Airbrushes Work - Steven Leahy (Ref: BOOK-HAW)

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Airbrushing 101 - Doug Mitchel Ref: BOOK-A101

Airbrushing 101 presents a series of start-to-finish projects, each painted by a different artist, and each designed to illustrate a different type of airbrushing. Author Doug Mitchel and the artists in the book introduce a wide range of airbrushing categories, including: fire art/illustration, T-shirts, automotive, fingernails, body and face painting, hip hop and model painting.

Price: £16.99

How to Airbrush Pin-Ups - Frank Season Ref: BOOK-HTAPU

How to Airbrush Pinups is a collection of ten sequences done by well-known and experienced airbrush artists. The human form, the human face, and skin tones, are three topics that beginning artists struggle to get right. And it is these three topics that make up much of this new book. Each of the ten photo sequences starts with the artist’s sketch and moves, step-by-step, to the finished panel. The chapters provide an opportunity for the reader to sit down and “talk” with the artist. These chat sessions include a discussion about not only the artists’ favorite airbrush, but how they learned their skills, who inspires them and how to avoid the typical beginner’s mistakes. The styles seen in How to Airbrush Pinups run the gamut from retro pinup and Vargas-style work of Edward Reed to modern stylized pinups of Tom Nguyen. With over 500 color images spread across 144 pages, How to Airbrush Pinups is an invaluable aid for anyone who wants to become proficient in painting pinups, nudes and portraits.

Price: £16.99

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Body Painting - Doug Mitchel Ref: BOOK-BP

Body Painting is a photo intense examination of the emerging art of painting bodies with non-toxic paints. From face painting children to the creation of painted clothes Doug Mitchel follows ten artists as they apply paint to skin. Each artist is represented by one chapter, each chapter follows a paint job from the initial concept to the application of the final details. Each design is different, but all are colorful and creative.

With over 450 color photographs printed on 144 pages, this book documents the techniques and tools used by established artists. Application methods include the brush, airbrush and even markers. Each method has advantages and disadvantages, each has its place and each is covered in detail in this new book from Wolfgang Publications.

Price: £16.99

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FineScale Modeler - Airbrushing Basics (softback) Ref: AOB-AB

Author: Jeff Wilson
Published by: Kalmbach Publishing Company (30 Sep 2006)
Format: Soft back
Number of Pages: 19

The Airbrushing Basics Books is an excellent choice for the beginner who is interested in airbrushing models. This books has eight chapters covering Airbrushes, Techniques, Cleaning your Airbrush, Air Supplies, Spray Booths, Paint Basics, Safety & Painting Multicolour schemes.

Price: £7.99

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Modeler's Guide To Realistic Painting & Finishing (softback) Ref: AOB-MGTRPAF

Learn Essential Tips and Techniques For Achieving Realistic Finishes!

Assembling a model is only half the fun - and half the challenge. You want to finish it as realistically as possible. Modeler's Guide to Realistic Painting & Finshing will guide you through the mysteries of preparing, painting and weathering your models.

Price: £14.99

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Badger Hobby and Craft Guide to Airbrushing Ref: BA-0500

This 32 page guide covers many aspects of airbrushing,including paint preparation, airbrush techniques to spray model cars and boats, metal locomotives, spraying on velvet, t-shirts,dioramas,figurines and ceramic plates. Also it deals with producing camouflage and weathering effects, airbrush maintenance and troubleshooting.

Ideal for the beginner or intermediate, this guide will get you on the way to producing professional results with your airbrush.

Price: £11.99

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Badger Step-by-Step Modellers Guide to Airbrushing Ref: BA-0505

This 32 page guide concentrates on the techniques required to produce realistic and detailed effects on your models. Topics covered include basic camouflage and colour design, detailing and painting of figures and creating dioramas of natural scenery.

Ideal for the intermediate, this guide will enhance your creative skills and help you to even more professional results with your airbrush.

Price: £11.99

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Craig Fraser - Automotive Cheap Tricks & Special F/X Ref: BOOK-ACTASFX

Craig Fraser's Cheap Tricks & Special F/X is the most copmpreshensive and up-to-date how-to handbook on automotive airbrushing and kustom graphics you'll ever want to own!

Keep it on hand as a reference tool, or read it from cover to cover. With a range of topics from basic layout and simple fades to the most advanced airbrush effects used by the industry experts today, this easy-to-use manual has dozens of techniques and insights for artists and car kustomizers at every level of expertise. It's an excellent addition to the arsenal of any professional and a must-have for beginners.

Price: £24.99

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Advanced Airbrush Art - Timothy Remus Ref: MBI-AAA

Like a video done with still photography, this book from Wolfgang Publications is made up entirely of photo sequences that illustrate each small step in the creation of a airbrushed masterpiece. Watch as well-known masters like Vince Goodeve, Chris Cruz, Steve Wizard and Nick Pastura start with a sketch and end with a NASCAR helmet or a motorcycle tank covered with graphics, murals, pinups or all of the above.

This book has 144 pages, 10 Great Artists, and 500 color images and is a great book for anyone who takes their airbrushing seriously and wants to learn more.

Price: £16.99

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Professional Airbrush Techniques - Vince Goodeve Ref: MBI-PAT

Early chapters explain shop setup and how to correctly prepare the metal canvas. Fourteen start-to-finish sequences walk you through Vince's airbrush work on both motorcycles and cars. Projects include simple graphics as well as complex and intricate designs.

Accustomed to teaching, Vince uses a narrative style that's easy to follow and understand. His enthusiasm for the airbrush comes through, adding energy and making the book even easier to read. Follow Vince through the multiple photo sequences that explain his choice of color, sense of design and preference for tools and materials.

Vince Goodeve has something to say to all airbrush artists—whether beginner or advanced.

Price: £16.99

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How To Custom Paint and Graphics - Jon Kosmoski Ref: MBI-HTCPAG

Written by noted custom painter Jon Kosmoski and how-to author Tim Remus, this book explains exactly how to apply graphics to nearly any vehicle. Early chapters cover shop set up, chemistry of paint, pinstriping and gold leaf work. Interviews with artist Nancy Brooks and educator Jeremy Vecoli provide them an opportunity to share their knowledge with a wider audience. Chapters four through seven feature start to finish photo sequences with artists like Jon Kosmoski and Lenni Schwartz.

Price: £16.99

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Advanced Custom Painting Techniques - Jon Kosmoski Ref: MBI-ACPT

When it comes to custom painting, there is one name better known than all others, and that name is Jon Kosmoski. With this book Jon uses over 350 colour photos to illustrate his explanations of panel preparation, gun control, kandy application, use of colour change materials, new metallic basecoats, and how to design and tapeout multi-level layouts.

Whether the project in your shop rides on 2 wheels or 4, whether you re trying to do a simple kandy job or complex graphics, this how-to book from Jon is sure to answer your questions.

Price: £16.99

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Advanced Custom Motorcycle Painting - Dave Perewitz with Paul Stoll Ref: BOOK-ACMP

When it comes to custom painting motorcycles one name comes to mind - Dave Perewitz. From Flames-without-equal to inch-thick candy jobs, Dave Perewitz understands exactly how to make your motorcycle paint job stand out from the others.

This new book from Wolfgang Publications, Advanced Custom Motorcycle Painting, is like spending a week in Dave's shop. Watch as Dave lays out and paints flames and scallops, with pearl, metal flake and color-change pigments

Price: £17.99

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How To Master Airbrush Painting Techniques - JoAnn Bortles Ref: MBI-HTMAPT

Whether you want to custom paint graphics on the hood of your hot rod, the tank of your motorcycle, a fine art canvas, or a T-shirt, mastering the art of airbrushing is key to bringing your vision to life.

Expert custom painter and author JoAnn Bortles take the beginner through the first steps of becoming an airbrush artist with How to Master Airbrush Painting Techniques. She starts by explaining how ti choose and buy equipment, how to master strokes and air pressure, and the materials and accesories a painter will need. And when your ready to move on to portraits, metal effects, complex stencils, landscapes and more, Bortles gives you the tools to tackle more difficult projects.

Price: £16.99

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Airbrush Painting Advanced Techniques - JoAnn Bortles Ref: BOOK-APAT

Having only one airbrushing technique is like driving on only one road; it limits the places you can go. This book by famed custom painter JoAnn Bortles gives you the airbrushing tools to take your art just about anywhere. Taking up where she left off in her best-selling How to Master Airbrush Painting Techniques, Bortles outlines a full range of techniques and their applications. Her straightforward, clearly illustrated directions show you how to airbrush everything from backgrounds and murals to animal subjects and delicate human features on virtually any surface. Designing, drawing, painting from photographs; portraying natural and manmade landscapes; manipulating light and dark; painting airplanes, cars, and trucks; depicting birds and reptiles, animals and people in stylized and realistic ways.

Price: £16.99

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How To Paint Your Motorcycle - JoAnn Bortles Ref: MBI-HTPYM

In How To Paint Your Motorcycle, author JoAnn Bortles teaches the art of motorcycle painting from top to bottom, from matte black to candy coats, metallics, marblizing, granites, and more. Bortles explains bodywork and molding techniques, setting up your paint area, buying and maintaining your equipment, and choosing the correct paints and finishes.

Whether you're looking to paint your own bike, your friend's bike, or you simply want to know more about bodywork, airbrushing, and custom painting, How To Paint Your Motorcycle is the perfect volume to get you started.

Price: £16.99

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How To Custom Paint Your Motorcycle - JoAnn Bortles Ref: MBI-HTCPYM

In How To Custom Paint Your Motorcycle, author JoAnn Bortles teaches you the airbrush techniques need to produce head-turning results on your bike. This book covers the latest painting techniques; painting flames, skulls, and murals; candy and pearl paints; and also explains the latest paints and finishes.

Even if you don't paint your own bike, this book will provide the information you need to have a professional painter do exactly what you want. How To Custom Paint Your Motorcycle is the most complete custom painting book available.

Price: £16.99

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How To Custom Paint Your Car - JoAnn Bortles Ref: MBI-HTCPYC

Everyone personalises their vehicle in one way or another, and custom painting is one of the best ways to make your car stand out. It's a skill that comes with practice, ingenuity, and knowing the right products and tools to use. Whether you re flaming a hot rod, putting skulls on the hood of a classic lowrider, or simply coating your car in a shiny pearl or candy, this book will walk you through every step of the process.

Price: £16.99

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How To Paint Flames - Bruce Caldwell Ref: MBI-HTPF

Custom paint jobs are more popular than ever, and no form of custom painting is "hotter" than the flame job. This book will explain how to design the best-looking flames for a particular vehicle, how to transfer that design to the vehicle, and how to apply the paint. The process of painting the flames will be broken into major segments so that the reader can go as far as they feel their skills and confidence will allow

Price: £12.99

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Up In Flames: The Art Of Flame Painting - Tim Phelps Ref: MBI-UIF

Flame painting first lit up the hot rod world more than 50 years ago-and its still burning strong. At the heart of the art are a handful of innovators who have pushed the tradition to ever-greater heights over the past half-century-and these are the artists profiled in this book. Up in Flames introduces readers to the flame painters who best represent the talent and inspiration that give this particular art form its power, and whose stories best illustrate the evolution of the flame job. Each profile features full-color illustrations, many examples of an artists range, and the painters own thoughts on style, career, and craft-all framed by an introduction that traces the flame job from its infancy to todays modern techniques and designs

Price: £25.00

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Airbrush Techniques for Custom Painting Vol II (paperback) Ref: BA-0510

48 page softcover book.
Full-color illustrations.
Tips for prepping paint and making and using stencils.
Many different effects, including 3D effects, cobwebbing, fogging, star glows, striping, etc.
Tips for animal and cartoon painting, murals and panels.
Troubleshooting tips.
Many color photos of works in progress as well as the finished product.

Price: £16.35

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How To Pinstripe - Alan Johnson Ref: MBI-HTP

In How to Pinstripe, acclaimed veteran striper Alan Johnson teaches you everything you need to know to get started, further your mastery of the form, and understand how a good design comes together. In addition to a primer on the history and evolution of pinstriping, Johnson explains every step of the pinstriping process, from choosing paint and brushes that suit your style and abilities, to preparing surfaces, experimenting with symmetrical and asymmetrical designs, striping freehand, and even using patterns. In addition to stressing the importance of finding your own style and having fun with the hobby, Johnson explains the basics of color theory and unique considerations for antique and classic cars, hot rods and customs, and motorcycles. For more advanced pinstripers, there’s even tried-and-true advice on apprenticing and working car shows.

Price: £16.99

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Advanced Pinstripe Art - Timothy Remus Ref: aMBI-APA
MBI-APA

Since the days of Von Dutch, hot rod and motorcycle enthusiasts have used pinstripes both as stand-alone art, and as a compliment to a flame or graphic paint job. The best way to learn is from someone who does it all day, and this book highlights 12 top pinstripe artists and their work, each chapter on a separate project, start to finish, from initial design to complete finish. There is full advice from the artist answering all the questions frequently asked: how do you load paint on a brush? How much paint to use? Why use this method, that type of brush? This is a comprehensive book that no pinstripe practitioner can afford to miss!

Price: £16.99

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Pinstriping Masters (softback) Ref: MACH-PM
MACH-PM

Techniques, Tricks and Special F/X for Laying Down the Line.

Author: Craig Fraser
Published by: Airbrush Action, Inc (June 13, 2003)
Format: Soft back
Number of Pages: 144

Price: £21.99

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Pinstriping Masters 2 (softback) Ref: MACH-PM2
MACH-PM2

Pinstriping Masters II: More techniques, tricks and special effects for laying down the line is the long awaited sequel to Pinstriping Masters

Author: Various
Published by: Nikko Press (October 1, 2007)
Format: Soft back
Number of Pages: 168

Price: £21.99

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How To Draw Crazy Cars and Mad Monsters Ref: BOOK-HTDCCAMM

Chopped, slammed, channeled, blown...in the late '50s and early '60s all of these features lent themselves to the rise of hot rod art that caricaturized these severe design traits, and the hot rod monsters they pioneered still continue today! Award-winning car designer Taylor reveals the tricks and techniques used to render these bulging, slobbering monsters.

From a history of the art form, an examination of the work of pioneers such as Ed Roth, Stanley Mouse, and Ed Newton, through to chapters on equipment, light sources, perspective, cartooning, proportion, color...a reference work for even the most experienced artist, and a valuable addition for beginners.

Price: £16.99

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How To Plate, Polish and Chrome - Dennis Parks Ref: BOOK-HTPPAC

Whether you own a custom motorcycle or a flamed-out hot rod, beautifully finished metal parts are the finishing touch that transforms a nice machine into a million-dollar baby. Aluminum and steel can be polished, chromed, anodized, plated and palnted, and this book shows you how to do each.

How to Plate, Polish and Chrome covers necessary materials, what it will cost, when to use different processes, and whether to have a professional do it or to tackle the project at home. Author Dennis Parks covers all the bases and offers step-by-step instructions for the home hobbyist.

Price: £16.99

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