2019 - Air-Craft Blog

Bottled lacquer paints from Tamiya mean you can broaden your creative horizons.

The Tamiya paint range has always included acrylic bottled paints and a series of lacquer spray paints. But Tamiya’s new range of lacquer paints now come in the traditional bottle format, meaning the application of lacquer paint is no longer restricted to spraying, and removes the need to decant lacquer paint from the spray can […]

Somewhere over the rainbow…at Air-craft.net

Our newest product range at Air-craft.net is custom braided hoses available in various colours made to your specific requirements. If you’re looking to smarten up your kit with colour-coding, or simply require a combination of hose length or connectors that you can’t get from an off-the-shelf hose, then our custom-braided hose service is just what […]

The Airbrush: The Early Years.

Who was the first person to use an airbrush? Well, obviously the inventor. So who invented the airbrush? There are two candidates in ‘airbrush history’ — Abner Peeler (1836-1895) and Francis Edgar Stanley (1849-1918). Although it was called the ‘Atomizer’, the first practical airbrush was patented in 1876 by Francis Edgar Stanley of Newton, Massachusetts. […]