Ok, so I work at DQ and do airbrushing on ice cream cakes. The owner bought a 10psi compressor and a Kopykake airbrush (the 1/3 gravity on their site). It takes forever to do detail like what you're doing here. There's always a lot of overspray and lately it's been spitting. We changed the needle twice with not much improvement. We are ordering a new one, but is it the compressor that allows for such a smooth fine mist of color? My cakes look like they are colored with a billion TINY dots.
@rileyvi The spattering is caused by the low pressure of your compressor. The overspray and is probably the style of airbrush. With the Aztek airbrush, you can get much closer to your cake because the Aztek is not a bleeder variety airbrush (meaning the excess air is not ran through the airbrush (compressor instead) so you can get closer without blowing holes in the icing). Getting closer also means less overspray. (We sell both types of airbrushes and compressors on our web site.)
Ok, so I work at DQ and do airbrushing on ice cream cakes. The owner bought a 10psi compressor and a Kopykake airbrush (the 1/3 gravity on their site). It takes forever to do detail like what you're doing here. There's always a lot of overspray and lately it's been spitting. We changed the needle twice with not much improvement. We are ordering a new one, but is it the compressor that allows for such a smooth fine mist of color? My cakes look like they are colored with a billion TINY dots.
rileyvi 2 months ago
@rileyvi The spattering is caused by the low pressure of your compressor. The overspray and is probably the style of airbrush. With the Aztek airbrush, you can get much closer to your cake because the Aztek is not a bleeder variety airbrush (meaning the excess air is not ran through the airbrush (compressor instead) so you can get closer without blowing holes in the icing). Getting closer also means less overspray. (We sell both types of airbrushes and compressors on our web site.)
CakeSuppliesPlus 2 months ago
It would usually be airbrushed directly on the cake. Paper was used here just for demonstration purposes--showing the features of the airbrush.
CakeSuppliesPlus 11 months ago
How do you transfer it onto the cake?
1ctor1a 11 months ago
@1ctor1a You airbrush directly onto the cake.
TheAnna3F 1 month ago
WIsh I could has see this before I bought mine..
Hfeather03 1 year ago
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ruski6969 2 years ago
Awesome
escenczence 2 years ago
nice
khryz23 2 years ago
oh my gosh so amazing
Aminangelface 2 years ago