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 Usually engine and chassis tuning lead to great expenses, and they can be ventured by limited number of people or take a lot of your time and attention. These changes can be rarely seen by amateurs, though everyone wants to have a special status. To do that one can go another, more interesting way – order exclusive accesories or pattern an original picture – make an aerography. There is a lot of information about accesories in mass media, that’s why we won’t touch this topic.

 History excursus in brief…

 In 1878 someone Abner Peeler constructed air brush – aerograph. Of course, this device was very primitive in comparison with modern hi-tech instruments (the inventor himself was a jeweler, and was engaged in painting during his leisure hours). The invention created a furor: rather plain by sight, it represented a sewing needle set into a system of tubes and was connected up with a hand compressor.

 Abner painted pictures for 3 years and turned on serious interest in new sort of fine art. In 1881 Liberty Walkup company became interested in Abner Peeler’s invention and accrued the rights from the author at a fabulous price 700$! Inventor provided himself a well-to-do life. In 1883 daughter enterprise of Liberty Walkup called Rockford Airbrush was founded. The company was engaged in advancement of production created with the airbrush (aerography) method. Little by little enthusiasm for aerography acquired larger scales, and the new technique of patterning bursted into such branches as advertisement, photography, typography. 

 There were racing teams who first started using aerography technique – they patterned pictures of hard-won cups, information about sponsors, pictures of animals embodied rapidity of this or that bolide. Soon sport moneymakers realized that every square centimetre can make an additional profit as an advertising area, and now almost all information we can see at sport cars is commercial and usually advertise this or that brand. However, soon aerographic pictures were changed to bright stickers – they are easier to change from one to another race. And only brand names sometimes are patterned by means of aerography.

 In spite of banishment aerography from sport, its development wasn’t stopped. At the beginning of 1940-th firms and studios which patterned pictures by airbrush method on common cars appeared. And now aerography grows, and our attention is attracted not only by ornamented cars, but also by mobile phones, computers, monitors, snowboards, bicycles, motorcycles, helmets, refrigerators and even furniture. One is dazzled because of such plenty and wants to make every object unique, to impart style and mood to it… Now we can confidently say that artistic aerography irrevocably came into our life. 

  Here are questions we have already answered. If you couldn’t find answer to your question – ask it at the forum.

 -    Do you provide photographic quality or the picture looks like a sketch made with chalk on fence?

-          Using aerograph, one can really reach photographic quality, but is this work interesting from artistic point of view? Anyway, we provide high quality of pictures, but one should reach artistic expressiveness, and not precise photographic reflection. It’s not a secret that animals rarely look the same as at the pictures, but that change that artistic image gives attracts more than just a photo in a catalogue of nature. But if our client insists on precise picture (for example, he wants to see someone’s face or native landscape), we execute the task in workmanlike manner.

-          What about working out the design and how much does the sketch costs?

-          Cost of the sketch is included in cost of the whole work, and we can’t pick it out as we can’t pick out cost of preparatory and painting works and materials. Every project requires special approach and special technology – it can’t be counted in advance. But on the basis of the sketch we can fix cost of the whole work, and it is always submitted with client’s approval.

-          Is it possible to estimate how the car will look like with the new appearance in 3D programme or just to see a picture?

-          Yes, of course – every sketch is presented for the client in a digital format, as a picture. Sometimes the sketches are drawn by hand, but it’s the highest level of difficulty. Sometimes it’s important to see three-dimensional picture. Deadlines and price in this case are stipulated individually.

-          Someone worries about possible problems with motor licensing and inspection department. Is it necessary to re-register the car because of the picture? [this is the specificity of Russian laws]

-          No, this field isn’t regulated strictly: the main thing is to save 70% of initial colour of the car and not to imitate specific colour of exclusive transport.

-          What’s the approximate price of your work?

-          Everything depends on the difficulty of the picture. Sometimes aerography of a phone can cost more than 8000 rur, sometimes the whole door of a car can cost cheaper. Feel free to phone and ask! It’s always a pleasure for us to talk and advise what will be better and cheaper. Sometimes we can keep within driblet and create an astonishing image. The idea of client is always very important in forming of the price.

-          You have a notion “price for the detail from …”, what does it mean?

-          It means that it will be very difficult to make the picture cheaper. The reason is in the fact that we don’t only want to earn, we also need special paint with special qualities. Unfortunately, it’s not manufactured in Russia – we have to buy these expensive materials abroad. Minimal price in formed from the price of materials.

-          If I want to dispose the picture at the door and at the wing of the car, have I pay for two details?

-          In each case we submit this item with client’s approval, but anyway we prepare and varnish the whole detail, or two details regardless of what we are going to paint – a bee or Panorama of Borodino… Because it’s not a sticker above a rusty spot, it’s a work of art which requires not only artistic skills, but also strict observance of technology. 

-          Do you plan to open aerography courses?

-          No, now we hire only professional artists who have their own manner and style of painting. If necessary we teach them technique of work with aerograph, but artistic views is obtained after a good school and long practice. We are not ready to provide amateurs with it. Maybe in future we’ll get back to this idea…

-          If I see a picture, are you able to draw it for me?

-          Yes, we are – if it’s not copyrighted. The main reason of turning to us for many people is the opportunity to have favourite picture along.

-          If you paint bad/something else/I won’t like the picture, will you do it anew for free?

-          Of course – if there will be impartial reasons. Everyone can make an error. About “I won’t like the picture”… to avoid disappointments we prepare a sketch, looking at which one can estimate future picture. Every client then confirms the sketch and signs it, so we don’t start the work without final confirmation. That’s why we had never got problems like that.

-          Do you guarantee that the picture won’t chip or darken?

-          The guarantee for our works is 1 year. Paint we work with provides 87% light stability for 10 years. It’s even more that common car paint provides. Unfortunately, for good reason, mechanical injuries of the paint are not included in the guarantee.

-          What demands do you make to the surface to pattern a picture?

-          The covering should be good, but we apply the blind eye to little defects – we have to probe everything. But we are not engaged in common repair of cars, so if the surface is unsuitable for aerography, we’ll warn the owner right away to avoid disappointments.

-          Will you come to my garage?

-          No problem, but only for drinking beer. All works are carried out in a special box which answers dust and humidity requirements. Otherwise neither we, nor client will be satisfied with the results of our work.

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