I posted on here a while back and was encouraged to begin a topic on using a cnc to airbrush.
My cnc painting journey began with a problem, how do you paint perfectly straight lines with an airbrush. Obviously you can mask off, but I wanted to retain the soft edges of sprayed paint. The solution was to automate the process with a cnc. Through internet searches I eventually found DLB5 and his airbrush holder. This holder is a really good way to easily turn your cnc into a painting machine.
I started off building my own painting machine by building a Lowrider capable of painting canvases up to a maximum width of 125cm and length of 200cm. As time has gone on I’ve modified it slightly. I printed DLB5’s airbrush holder and began to experiment shooting paint.
I’m about to change a few things on it next week, getting rid of some of the printed parts and replacing with steel. I will upload some images once finished. But here is the setup for now.
I like these images. Nice to see that people with an artistic sense can make use of v1. There’s a few of them on insta actually. Arno Beck(plotting) and g.kindermann2019 (concrete) are two I can come up with on the fly.
That is sick!!! Wow… A friend and I joked about making a robotic arm with airbrush a while back. This is instead a very practical application for makers, and it looks like you have a good handle on the process. Thanks for sharing!
I want a video!!! I used to do alot of art a long time ago, and my head cannot get around a cnc airbrushing!!! If you made all those with that cnc WOW!!! Just wow!
@littlewhitehead : would you be so kind to post a video and give some more details of your machine? I’d love to try this sometime in the near future for 1 of my amateur musical groups I’m trying to make a scenery for. Painting by hand is unfortunately not 1 of my talents.
