I will be moving to an apartment real soon and i dont want to give up on modeling.

Is there any way i can spray paint and airbrush in an apartment ? It does not seem you could get all the paint fumes out. Mabye just paint the bath room?

Anybody spray paint and airbrush in an apartment or am i to stop building models for many years.

I'm in an apartment and never have any real problems airbrushing. I leave the windows open so there is sufficient ventilation and have a fan running at the same time to guarantee that the air and paint fumes do leave the place.
Also, as usual when airbrushing, wear a mask to avoid inhaling the fumes!
This may not exactly meet the WHMMIS standards but at least it's better than having no ventilation at all!!!!

I airbrush all the time in my apartment.
Open a window, use a fan, use a quite compressor, and some common sense.

I too live in an apartment... and use those nasty enamals.... oh and the wife has a "sensitive" nose.. I spray in my hobby room .. read closet with the door open and fan ventalating the place... windows open if possible....

I wear a painters 2 stage respirater so that i won't get that nasty chemical headach and eventually lobototize myself...

the worse curplit on "smell" is spraying thinner through the airbrush to clean it.. i use a homemade thingie to catch the thinner from the airbrush and oderless thinner for cleaning it..

the tamiya acrylics and pollyscale acrylics aren't bad at all ...at least not after your used to enamals..

Yes i use a respriator all the time when i spray paint. I mostly build auto models which i use auto spray cans - and if you ever used auto paint its real strong oder. So looks like i will have to switch to airbrushing using acrylic paints

but as long as i can still get the same effects then it will be ok

I paint in a spare bedroom (almost like my apartment when my wife is peeved with me).

I bought a spray booth. It has a space for a dryer hose which I vent through a window.

I still wear a respirator/mask and also have a air filter running in my room.

Ventilation is the key! And save your lungs too cuz you can't model when you is sick ok I mean physically sick

Cheers, Michael

I dont have any probs with a spray paint in apartment
i always paint my model in my small drybathroom, but make sure u clean everything before u paint in the bathroom , and always let the door open wide and also turn on the exhaust fan. but since i life in apt i dont have enough space to display my models

If you can purchase one of those plastic storage tubs,which is the size of a window in your chosen area that is a start.
Cut a hole in the "bottom" of the tub,and place the tub into the window opening.
This is your booth.At the least,postion a room fan to blow from behind you,towards the booth.The excess air will go out and carry fumes etc with it.A better step up is to rig a dryer vent hose and a brushless fan motor to draw the fumes through the hole to the outside.
I have this type of setup in my house's basement,and the draft is strong enough to lose ideas in... (++) (++)