makes sense. the camera was held close enough to make it a pseudo macro shot, but i hear you on the brush strokes and not wanting them to show up. i haven't picked up an airbrush yet, and am heavily limited to rattle cans simply because of where i work on these. not to mention that most of the cans that i've dealt with (Testors and other things like that) have little to no consistency and i always end up with runs and things like that.