Well there is a remote possibility that it is airbrushed but if it is he has another hobby, that being an AB artist because with the fine detail in that for which I have seen AB artists achieve without effort is from the best in the business, it looks to me like it could be both as I find it hard to believe that the green shading down the middle was achieved by dipping seems to accurate for all three parts, the 2 blades and the jig head but who knows he may have a secret he's not willing to share

But back to the subject of this powder is it me that stuff is not being represented as powder paint at all it's just food colored corn starch? Where's the powder paint come into the equation?