I am curious what everyone is using for airbrush booth lighting. I have a sheet metal booth (I think from Paasche) which is the typical enclosed type. I’m trying to improve lighting within as I currently just have some LED lights pointed inside. Ideally some kind of LED bar light with a higher color temp (i.e. daylight.)
Led bar not sure what temp they are but give me plenty of light.
I cut a slot in the top of mine about two inches wide, and about 3/4 of the width of booth. I glued a strip of clear plastic inside to keep paint fog off light source, which is a fluorescent strip (cabinet) light.
To keep the paint fog from clouding that plastic strip, I make tear-offs, like racing drivers and motorcycle racers use over their visors.
I use that clear packaging tape. I lay down the first strip on a piece of glass. Then I put down several more layers on top of it, folding back the last half inch to create a tab to easily remove that layer when it gets tinted by paint fog. When I get several such strips down, I peel the whole thing up from the glass and stick it to bottom of the plastic window.
Don, very smart. I might try that out.
I just started airbrushing and I built a cardboard paint box for now and mounted an under the cabinet flourescent light fixture inside that lights it up pretty good. I just cut a couple of holes in the top of the box put some screws in a piece of lumber spaced far enough apart for the light to hook to, cut holes in the box for the screw heads to go through and wala I have a lighted box. A better box and a better lighting source will come later but for now what I have is working just fine. I don’t think I even need it since I only spray acrylics but I figure better safe than sorry.