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Go ahead and use a brush, and just make sure your paint is thinned. This may mean more than one coat to cover the mishaps, but you should be applying just a small amount of paint at a time, so it will dry quickly. You can also keep a dry brush at the ready, so that once the thin paint is down, you can touch the dry paint brush into it around the edges in order to wick it up into the bristles, leaving just the thinnest amount of paint possible over the blemish. <br /> <br />I actually use a brush and thinned paint entirely, instead of an airbrush, for all of my painting, and the quality of the finish can be rather good with practice. I think airbrushed surfaces just look too flat, too dull & lifeless; brush painting in thin washes results in natural tonal variations which are a sort of built-in weathering; by using an appropriate base color (usually a spray-paint primer), the quality of this variation can be adjusted.
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