Your first Airbrush

My first airbrush was an Aztek. It was ok, but then I discovered Badger and Harder & Steenbeck.

Needless to say, I don't have the Aztek anymore.

don't have it anymore. it and the badger that replaced it went missing when i moved house years ago. the badger going missing really bothered me (cos i have never got another one as good) and the first was a cheapie - nastyhumbrol one. the only airbrush i have now is the cheap revell one that is only any real good for large areas.
Greg

i sold it

Aztec Double Action. Still have it, still use it.

I still have and use my first Badger. I now have added another Badger and two Paasche air brushes. One Badger and one Paasche are single action and one each is double action.

My first airbrush was the Paasche single action airbrush. I don't use it anymore because it stopped working, although I'm not sure why it doesn't work. I keep hoping I can somehow fix it as it would be helpful.

My first airbrush was a Badger 250 and I've still got most of it lieing around in an old cigar box somewhere. Needless to say I don't use it any more.

My first airbrush was a Badger internal mix single action - and I still use it. I've also got a Badger double action - they're both great tools, and very useful.

My first AB was one of the early hobby AB's from Binks. Don't even know if they are still in business. Went from that to a Paasche H which suffered an untimely death in a freak accident. Tried a Paasche VL, but hated cleaning it. Went back to a Paasche H which I still have & use extensively, although so many parts have been replaced over the years the handle is about all thats left of the original. Recently added an Iwata HP-CR, which I like a lot, and may also get an Iwata HP-CS someday as that seems to the most popular AB on the Forum.

I still have the first airbrushes I ever used. Growing up I had three to choose from; a Paasche H and two Badgers, 150 & 200. All three were siphon feed brushes, something I will never go back to for serious work.

I didn't like the dual-action Badger 150 and almost never used it. The Paasche H wasn't that great a performer, so I only used it for laying in basecoats or masked schemes. The single-action Badger 200 turned out to be my workhorse and because of it the Paasche was relegated to the reserves.

The Badgers in general were a PITA because of the little teflon bearing which is buried in the body. They were the cause of most of the problems we had with those brushes and left a real sour taste. But when that single action was working properly I wouldn't have traded it for anything else.

Then I tried out a pal's Iwata Eclipse (gravity feed model) and found that it was the easiest airbrush for me to initially get on and use, despite the fact that it was a dual-action. I hated dual-action brushes because of my early experience with the Badger 200, and from trying out various others; a few different Paasche V's & V Juniors as well as the Badger 175 Crescendo and the Badger Universal 360. But this Iwata was so smooth and easy to use that I mastered it in five minutes. I had to have one, and now one of my catch-phrases is, "I GOTTA IWATA!"

Nowadays I don't use the Badgers at all, but the Paasche does make an appearance now and again for less imporatant projects. The Iwata is it for me and I can honestly say that I don't have to buy another airbrush ever again. I don't have to, but I probably will...


Fade to Black...

I bought my first airbrush about 13 years ago and it was that cheap Revell plastic one with the can of propellent,shortly after that i bought a Paasche VLS double action.
Then came a 5 year break from modeling,but when i started modeling again the old Paasche wouldn't work properly for me so i bought a new Paasche VLS which never worked properly and which i wouldn't use to paint a model.
Anyway i purchased a Badger 175 double action and have never had a problem with it.

i had the single-action Badger 350. I realized it was limited in fine lines so I bought an Aztek. Big mistake. After it broke down I bought a Badger 200 and have loved it since. It is very versatile and does so much while being easy to use and clean. Seems a few members I've bumped into, use the same airbrush.

I started with Badger 200 and still have it but I upgraded to a Badger 155 Anthem and now use that exclusively.
Paul

When I was twelve (1970), my dad gave me a Thayer & Chandler and a Paasche AB Turbine. They were old then, but got me started on the road to airbrushing. The Thayer & Chandler had been cleaned so many times that the cone was out of shape for a correct spray pattern. Although I've since replaced it with a Paasche VL, it will always have a place on my shelf. The little turbine is difficult to use and I hope to some day master the little bugger.

I started with a Paasche VL back in 1990 and sold it a few years back to buy an Omni 3000.

Mike

My first airbrush was a Badger 250 and I've still got most of it lieing around in an old cigar box somewhere. Needless to say I don't use it any more.

My first airbrush was a cheap and mostly nasty copy of a badger 350, painted 5 models and sold it, for an upgrade Paasche VL set, still have it and use a Lenco 301 almost all the time.

Rob.

First AB was a Badger 200 purchased 18 months ago.

Love this brush as I learnt all the basics with it, and it is so easy to use.

Bought an Omni4000 a couple of months back, but still use the 200 for primer and varnish work, where the ability to set up a constant spray pattern is a definite bonus.

Karl

My first was a Badger. That teflon bushing went bad in it and I had to have it repaired. I went on to a Paasche, and use it if I ever get far enough to put paint on a kit. I still have the Badger.

First one was an Aztek double action. I used it to learn on. About a year ago I got me a Paasche VL, and I haven't used the Aztek since.

Bought a Badger 150 about 15 years ago. It didn't survive my last move. Now I have a Badger Anthem.