A good air brush for wide coverage

Don Wheeler wrote:

MikeV wrote: The widest spraying airbrush on the market is the Badger Crescendo followed closely by the Anthem 155 in my opinion. Both were designed for T-shirt airbrushing so it only follows that they would be able to put out a lot of paint for that purpose. Now I have not used every airbrush out there but even Ken Schlotfeldt told me that the Crescendo is the king for blasting out the most paint in their line of airbrushes.  I've never used a crescendo, but if it puts out more paint than a 155 with the trigger pulled all the way back, it must be a fire hose.  With air set to 20 psi, I can spray a full 1/4 oz. cup of water in 12 seconds flat. Yes, I'm crazy enough to try that. Don

I hear you Don.

MikeV wrote:

The widest spraying airbrush on the market is the Badger Crescendo followed closely by the Anthem 155 in my opinion. Both were designed for T-shirt airbrushing so it only follows that they would be able to put out a lot of paint for that purpose. Now I have not used every airbrush out there but even Ken Schlotfeldt told me that the Crescendo is the king for blasting out the most paint in their line of airbrushes.

I've never used a crescendo, but if it puts out more paint than a 155 with the trigger pulled all the way back, it must be a fire hose.  With air set to 20 psi, I can spray a full 1/4 oz. cup of water in 12 seconds flat.

Yes, I'm crazy enough to try that.

Don 

The widest spraying airbrush on the market is the Badger Crescendo followed closely by the Anthem 155 in my opinion. Both were designed for T-shirt airbrushing so it only follows that they would be able to put out a lot of paint for that purpose. Now I have not used every airbrush out there but even Ken Schlotfeldt told me that the Crescendo is the king for blasting out the most paint in their line of airbrushes.

No knocks on the other brands and airbrushes (becuase I haven't used them), but I love my Iwata Eclpse gravity feed AB. It's a true work horse, easy to clean, easy to maintain, parts are readily available should you need something and it is relatively cheap. I've had it for over 5 years with my biggest issue being I needed to clean it out better.

I use it for everything but fine detail work, for which I have a Sotar 20/20 by Badger.

JunJon found something that worked well for him.

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