How to make an airbrush with your own hands at home

Aerograph (spray gun) Is a handmade tool, whose main purpose is to spray liquid paint under the influence of compressed air. Essentially, the airbrush can work from the most usual automobile pump or the similar device. You can use an airbrush to apply images to the surface of the paper, fabrics or metal products, than are often used by car owners.

This pneumatic tool gives the chance to draw thin and accurate lines of practically any complexity and does not demand special skills from the master - you get used to work with the device in a short time..

Airbrush for cars

The airbrush looks like an ordinary fountain pen, to which a special container with paint is attached from the bottom or side, into which air is supplied under pressure by means of a pump or similar unit. Most vehicle owners, who are fond of coloring their iron horses, prefer to buy airbrushes in specialty stores.

However, few people know, that assembling such a device with your own hands at home is also quite a feasible process.

Airbrush with your own hands

types of airbrushes

If you decide to make an airbrush with your own hands at home, necessary, in the first place, to be determined, what exactly do you want from the tool. From this will depend on its appearance and, in accordance, materials, which will be useful for its creation. so, by the type of mixing of air and color flow inside the device. There are the following types of airbrushes:

  • with external mixing. This is the easiest type of airbrush to assemble and operate. Such devices, usually, collect with their own hands (at the same time the detail of the old vacuum cleaner or the most usual ball-point pen can be taken as a basis). This type of airbrush is intended mainly for painting large surfaces and is perfect for creating a background image on the car;

Airbrush with external mixing

  • with internal mixing. This is a more complex type of airbrush. Its peculiarity is that, that the mixing of air with paint takes place directly inside the tool, the body of which is represented by a special spraying head.

Airbrush with internal mixing

According to the principle of controllability, all airbrushes are classified into the following subcategories:

  • airbrushes of single action. In such units control of pressure of paint is made or on air, or on a colorful channel. However, the most effective and economical are those airbrushes, where control is carried out through the air channel;

Working with an airbrush - practical tips
Single action airbrush

  • dependent double-acting airbrushes. They are also called automatic airbrushes. They control the two channels at once (airy and colorful), however, in most cases it is done automatically;

Double action airbrush, dependent

  • independent double-acting airbrushes. In the vast majority of cases, such models are used exclusively by professionals, after all, during the amateur painting of the vehicle, the function of full manual control over both streams, usually, sometimes not needed.

The airbrush is independent, double action

According to the principle of paint supply, all airbrushes are classified as follows:

  • device, on which the container with the dye is located on the side, top or bottom;
  • appliances, in which the paint is supplied under pressure.

Aerograph (spray gun) with different supply of paint

What is needed for that, to make an airbrush

If you want to assemble a homemade airbrush with your own hands, you will need the following materials. They are cheap, and they are easy to find in the regular market. so, you have to be prepared:

  • standard ballpoint pen with a rod inside;
  • classic cork from a bottle of wine;
  • medical syringe with a volume of 10 to 20 cubic millimeters;
  • lighter;
  • marker of any noticeable color, office ruler;
  • paper knife;
  • drill;
  • awl or similar tool;
  • glass bottle with lid;
  • fine-grained sandpaper;
  • hot melt adhesive.

When you have all the above materials, you can safely start drawing up an airbrush with your own hands.