Sweet! Just bought an explore air 2 yesterday. I'm really shocked by how much detail you can get out of these. It's really going to boost my airbrush game
Hi. Looking at getting one of these. Great demo. What’s the smallest size letter stencil it’s capable of cutting? For instance, can you get down to about 3mm?
Excellent vid. I have the same Cricut - did you ever find a better paper setting for the Tamiya paper/frisket? I tried on the lowest setting and it still cut through all the way (using the fine cutting blade).
Very nice tutorial. I’m considering to buy a Silhoutte Portrait 2. So do you think the software has the same feature to make the vectors from an image ?
I’m not an expert in the nomenclature but the cricut can vectorize an image but it’s rather clunky to do so and I’ve found the quality suffers a bit. Therefore when I can, I recreate the letters or image myself in either procreate on the iPad or gimp on the computer. I’ve heard the silhouettes program is much more capable for those who are more computer literate, but I have never used it so couldnt give advice on which is better. The cricut is pretty simple and in fact my 11 year uses.
@@seanerk5kt9 thank you for answering. I just found your channel on RU-vid, and your models are amazing! I'm watching the final video of the PBY4Y-2. Can you give me the mix to achieve the sea blue and intermediate blue? I think you just nailed it, they look fantastic.
avitor500, I may have just mixed it by eye if I recall correctly but here’s where I get all my mix ratios for tamiya paints. www.ipmsdayton.com/sites/default/files/Tamiya_Mixes.txt
Nice video--I have a Cricut but haven't made much with it yet. For something like the red, white, and blue stars and bars, would you make more than one stencil, one with separate parts for each color, and in what order would you paint them? Paint the white with just the outside masked, then mask the star and white in the bars, then remove the red bar mask and spray the red? All that involves removing and replacing parts of the whole mask.
Here’s a good tutorial on how I do it at 20:56. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X9STgrXSRgI.html This one shows the star and bar without the red stripe. When I do paint the red stripe, I just mask it off last with tape (not using a precut mask) and spray the red. Hope that helps.
Yes. Since styrene only needs to be scored, using the cricket is sometimes helpful when trying to cut multiple exact copies of the same shape. I just set it on the thick cardstock setting I believe.
Hey Walter, you didn’t type it incorrectly. The website was getting to be a pain to update and since I video 90% of my builds and post them here, I just let the domain name expire.
