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Are More Expensive Hobby Tools BETTER? Airbrushing my first army pt.2
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Aug 31, 2024
Get awesome graphic tees PLUS an extra 10% using our link: https://intotheam.com/thepaintingphase #intotheam Part 2 of airbrushing my first army, I'm trying out the much coveted Evolution 2024 from Harder & Steenbeck. Will it improve my painting or will I crash & burn? Do more expensive hobby tools lead to better results, lets find out in my specific case. Join our Patreon: https://patreon.com/thepaintingphase Merch: https://thepaintingphase.creator-spring.com Help Support the channel with our affiliate links: UK: https://elementgames.co.uk/?d=10835 EUROPE: https://taschengelddieb.de/?affiliate=tpp UK & EU: https://affiliates.waylandgames.co.uk/idevaffiliate.php?id=1214 US: use code paintingphase to get 10% off at https://www.goblinshut.com/ H&S Airbrush: https://harder-airbrush.net/?sca_ref=5530415.aOjOVt339C Gaahleri airbrush: https://www.gaahleri.com/?ref=Thepaintingphase Follow us: https://www.instagram.com/thepaintingphase/
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this video is sponsored by into the am
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more expensive equals more better if you
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get more expensive kit to paint your
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mines with you'll get better results
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right I'm finishing up airbrushing my
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first Army you can watch part one up
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there which I used the harder and steam
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back Ultra for I've got a few models to
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finish off but this time I'm upgrading
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to the evolution the evolution 2024 is
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about 4050 quid more expensive than the
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ultra which already isn't a cheap brush
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so what's in the box that makes a
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different probably a load of behind the
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scenes technical stuff that I just don't
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really understand but the main
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differences advertised on the front of
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the box and Visually at least are we've
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got two different size paint cups and
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these screw in opposed to pushing in as
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I did on the ultra the needle is
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uncovered rather than it being encased
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and protected the trigger is a bit more
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ergonomic and feels a bit nicer to rest
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one's finger on rather than placing it
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on top of the ultra and you can pull the
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trigger all the way back without having
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to press the trigger down and release
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paint gone is the collar as a way of
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limiting how far you can pull the
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trigger back and that is replaced with
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this turny butt dial thing more options
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for restricting as opposed to the six or
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seven options you have on the ultra this
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one gives you loads more I'm not
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counting them there's a lot you also get
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two needles and nozzles the 0.4 mm and
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0.2 mm so how is it in use well let's
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get painting some models and try to find
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out it's worth noting at this point that
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any adjustments I make will be solely
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based around my own experience if you're
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a similar sort of skill level to me
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learning airbrushing have been for you
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know a few months then that might be
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relevant to you or if you're new to
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airbrushing I think this will be quite
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helpful if you're a Season Pro uh you
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can just watch me make a ton of mistakes
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and
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call me an idiot you are not
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wrong first up I'm painting a brutalist
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dreadnut base coed it all absolutely
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fine this came installed with a 0.2 mil
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needle and nozzle so that's just what
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I'm trying out first with base coating
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I'm not sure more control and accuracy
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is really a relevant test but hey here
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we go looks wise even though I'm
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painting it in a Deathwing scheme I was
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Doom scrolling on Tik Tok and found a
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cool dread from this chap Andy the brush
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Smith so I wanted to try and replicate
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sort of that placement of light and dark
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and that kind of thing I'm using the
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same recipe as I did on my troops Tamia
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paints for the win lots of people have
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been telling me to get um masks and
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things like that I'd recorded this
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before I released part
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one I do own one now but I don't in this
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video so please know I'm opening all the
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windows and I'm ventilating in the space
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as much as I can but yes best practice
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to wear a mask as people keep telling me
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Tam your paints go on incredibly smooth
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and I must say the trigger on this brush
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is brilliant it's softer than the ultra
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really responsive and smooth it's lovely
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putting on the base coats was nice um
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trousers they look all formal and fancy
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but bam so flexible so comfortable I
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to airbrushing bye I chickened out of
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putting like a red stripe on any of my
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troops cuz I was nervous about messing
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it up so I thought I'd try and get a
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little fancy and put a single stripe
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down the shoulder taping it was a pain
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but I got there eventually went on with
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the red and then with a darker and
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lighter shade to try and match the blend
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of the armor that I'd already done then
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much to my dismay and sheer lack of
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skill really I ized I'd
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oversprayed quite a bit so I've just
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sprayed um my red line on this guy and
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put my tape down wanting to make it all
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as clean as possible even put some Putty
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down to try and stop the overspray it's
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such a bad job um the line itself looks
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pretty good like it's not perfect but
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I'm going to chip over it and that would
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looked fine the issue is on the
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sides um there just all that airbrush
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over spray I really wasn't wasn't
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careful enough so I think probably what
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I'll do is I'll do three three red
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stripes cuz I think it would be easier
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than fixing it with the base coats and
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all the mixing and all that sort of
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stuff do it realized that it looks crap
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and then probably put the base coats
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back on anyway but we'll see what
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happens still some overspray to deal
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with so swapping back to the base coats
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to try and cover it it was at this point
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in the video that I'd realized I was
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still in my ultra mode of thinking and
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mixing the paint in the cup of the
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airbrush the benefit of that exposed
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needle is you can pinch it and bubble
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back into the cup to put air back in and
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and mix it all up really nicely so
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started doing that this made me realize
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I really don't actually mind mixing up
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the paint in the airbrush cup like just
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with the back of a brush or whatever
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seems to work really well so I used to
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think bubble not being able to Bubble
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back was was a really big deal breaker
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but actually I don't care finished up my
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base coats black to cages gloss varnish
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all over and then going in with an oil
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wash I'm not really sure I'm getting any
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better with these but washing the rivets
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was really satisfying and quite messy so
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just making sure I spend as much time on
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the clean up as possible I did mix the
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wash a bit thicker this time some people
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did recommend that so maybe that helped
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again sponge shipping for the win I'm
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borrowing heavily on Co of paint with
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their scheme
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as some of you will already know Henry
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seems to go darker with his chipping
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colors I found myself generally going
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for two like one dark and then one light
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I actually used three here cuz the first
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Brown that I went in with um was a bit
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light and a bit red so I went over it
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with a dark brown and again I love my
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reverse grip tweezers these have been uh
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really good and they're just so
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comfortable and easy to use you don't
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have to hold them close they're just
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permanently closed so someone months ago
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gave me that recommendation so thank you
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very much so that's the armor
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pretty much done opted for not using any
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transfers I don't know if that was a
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good thing or a bad thing but I'm sort
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of on the metallics now um I do quite
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like you know the bright armor against
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the black so instead of using gunmal
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which I've done for the rest of the army
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I'm going to try exhaust manifold which
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is kind of like a dark metal but yeah
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apart from the team America shoulder um
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I think this looks pretty good like I'm
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quite quite chuffed
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um yeah I'm going to leave the stripes
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in it's funny um so there we go all of
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my
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inadequacies can be laid bare metallic
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shade highlight base done I did go back
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and uh use some transfers in the end
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glad I did uh these were from the mighty
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brush and thanks to Ross for Lending me
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them um I can't give these ones back
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obviously but
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cheers next more dreads just shooty this
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time time to get rein equated with
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masking tape this Army split between
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Deathwing and penitent blades so this
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one is one of them splitty boys I've
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used Pink as an undercut previously I
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wanted to try something a little deeper
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this time it was quite subtle on the
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troops so I've gone with red whilst I
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put what felt like a billion coats on I
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definitely made some arrows the twiddly
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butt dial it doesn't hold your hand the
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same way as a collar on the ultra does
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it assumes you know more of what you're
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do and it gives you more options slash
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freedom for me at my skill level I think
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I prefer the color on the ultra it's
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fast it's simple and it works the butt
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dial is bit more fiddly bit more testing
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refining but then you're in a world of
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slight too much not enough you've got to
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be more connected with the airbrush it's
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it it is less beginner friendly if that
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makes sense talking to a few people they
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say they don't use the back at all they
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just take it off I've tried that here
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and that's where some of those mistakes
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have come from
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overspray and flooding the model with
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paint That's generally what's happened
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and that's what I really liked about the
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ultra because it stopped me from doing
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that generally the people that have
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raved about the evolution to me are
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already accomplished airbrushers so they
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don't need the same handholding that I
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do so I tried going restriction free but
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I'm just not good enough if you're good
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Evolution good if you're not good like
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me then uh I think I still really really
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like the ultra flat white all over and
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then it's time to ret tape and putty to
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get the contrast paint on combination of
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tape and putty work great somebody
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recommended that in the previous video
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as well so thank you very much to this
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person got a perfect line from the tape
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and the coverage from the putty and pure
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yellow it's always awesome this is
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absolutely my favorite way to paint
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yellow and I'm really really happy with
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how the red turned orange and a bit
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deeper and a bit more sort of contrast
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in there which is awesome I've had some
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mix results with my contrast paints so I
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thinned down some storm fiends I didn't
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want to obscure all of the work that
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I've painstaking put into this turns out
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I did anyway
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yay so I just left the tape on and went
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in with a light blue to highlight up the
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storm fiend done and he's put more
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effort and also do more testing with
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contrast paints I've really been
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enjoying speed paint at the moment
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actually cuz they just kind of work
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there's definitely some contrast paints
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that I still really really love Imperial
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office yellow I think is unmatched
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but they are very very consistent the
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speed paints any who it is pretty much a
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repeat prescription from here on in so
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is a tiny montage and a spiny
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the time of dreadn is over and I'm
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moving on to the Troops and it is bile
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time so I'm just skipping to a point
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where all the basics are already done
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because I painted up 15 Deathwing in
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part one and I don't think anybody wants
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to watch that again I didn't really like
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my cloth on my Deathwing night so I'm
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trying to figure out what to do as this
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guy
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is mostly green cloth I ried quite
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heavily on inspiration from the box art
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for this one I did a 50/50 mix of dark
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green and black cuz I couldn't find my
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black green I painted on a really
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highlight on the first go so just
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painted over it and tried it again on
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the box art the cloak is pretty dark so
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I just went darker and and just quite
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minimal really end result I'm I'm
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reasonably happy it it doesn't look
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amazing but it doesn't look bad and I
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think that's that's the best that's the
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best thing I just went with dark green
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on the cloth on the front of him and I
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used a black wash from pro krill just to
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darken it back down but give it
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hopefully a different look to the to the
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cape I did overdo it with a wash on uh
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the reverse side of the cape on the
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purple bit bit blotchy here and there
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but just trying my best to sort of cover
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that up and then after that just sort of
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tapping in some highlights few sort of
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edge highlights and then the the the
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brightest ones I tried to add a bit of
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weathering in and that kind of thing
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just to uh cover up the fact that my
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brush control is not very good and would
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you know it I barely used an airbrush on
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this one I airbrushed the armor but you
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really doesn't have that much armor on
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display I didn't want to mask everything
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up cuz I thought all these little dips
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and pockets and so on on the model i'
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probably miss a bit or overspray
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somewhere or get something wrong and
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then really really struggle to fix it so
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with this I did just paint most of it by
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hand I wanted to focus on camera on the
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on the on the cloth cuz that's what I
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wanted to work on from the last video so
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I'm mainly
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using this Fancy Pants super car
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airbrush to spray my miniature in gloss
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varnish which feels like a a
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misappropriation could have done that
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with any airbrush I'm not really using
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it to the to the best of its abilities
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here
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and this isn't to say that I don't think
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you can airbrush models like this there
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marcoon does the lion with an airbrush
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and it's one of the most exceptional
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exceptional things that I've seen
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and I'm just too scared to do it
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so I don't think I need again I don't
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need that top end kit I really don't so
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we're moving on onto the chaplain I
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already have my airbrush out so it's uh
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time to do the Deathwing shoulder pad
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first and in true Patrick fashion
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reactivated all the paint when I put the
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transfer on
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yay so I did it all again prime base
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coat color one color two gloss varnish
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transfer and then I did it
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again
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sh I'm not painting this for a third
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time so it's going into a bias STP bath
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and then I'm just going to crack on
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painting a black Marine for the first
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time never done black Marine paranoid
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about making mistakes so spoilers I
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think I under did it bit too subtle
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perhaps but
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I didn't completely balls it up
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essentially when black undercoat a
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lighter black and then a gray and just
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trying to build it up exactly the same
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as I did with my death one but just with
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black so once I built up to that gray
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covered up bits of overspray by going in
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again with black into the
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Shadows thanks Henry I think black's one
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of those colors that people say is
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really hard to paint and I never really
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understood why but I I think I kind of
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get it a bit more now cuz if you sprayed
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it too light then it looks like you're
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going to have a grey Marine I sprayed it
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not enough and it just looks all black
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still maybe um so yeah just a a tricky
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one to find that right balance it still
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looks black though so I'm happy enough
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Shields really fun nice red blend light
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to dark rest of the details went on fine
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and I had fun trying to do the Purity
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seals and and not recording it so it's
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time to paint the same shoulder pad for
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the third time in a
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row love it
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we're done my first Army is
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complete for now it's been a really fun
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experience I've learned a lot and
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hopefully retained a few skills in the
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meantime aish wise I think I've covered
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the vast majority of my thoughts already
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but those generally are that the Evo
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allows you to make more mistakes by
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assuming you know what you're doing I've
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seen people do incredible things with
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with air brushes and I'm sure this one
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does amazing things I'm just not going
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to do amazing things with it yet going
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up a brush has definitely helped me
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realize I'm still very much in the
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handholding phase of my airbrushing I
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like the grip on the
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trigger it it feels awesome it's way
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more ergonomic and just generally a bit
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of a nicer experience to use that is
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better than the ultra I can see why this
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came recommended from everybody I feel
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like it's okay to admit you're not
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amazing at something the Evo is beyond
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me it might not be in the future but it
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certainly is now I don't doubt its
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design its
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pedigree all the people that recommended
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it to me I'm sure aren't lying I'm just
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not in a position where I can put that
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to the best use if
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on a Model I think bile sums my thoughts
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up on the evolution the
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best I was too scar too scared to use it
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um where it could have made the one of
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the biggest differences like on the
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cloak or something like that so if I'm
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not going to use it what's the point
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yeah I've had fun I've messed about I've
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made some mistakes I'm sure I will get
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better over time and uh the more
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practice I put in that's generally how
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this thing
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works but I thoroughly enjoyed
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everything that I've done but if I had
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to pick between the
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two I'm going Ultra every time I think
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it's awesome I can wholeheartedly say
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that I think it's the best beginner
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airbrush you can buy full stop it's not
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the
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cheapest but it is the best got a cool
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army now so that's pretty awesome thank
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