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Update -
So I went through all of the major airbrush manufacturers and bluntly asked
them why I should pick their airbrush in a very long winded email because at
that time I was just completely befuddled and didn't even really understand
airbrushing so well.
I talked with Grex first, almost immediately I should add, (very awesome
people, someone from there called me back due to the length of the email) and
the guy who I talked to (sorry but I don't remember his name) helped educate me
on the basics of airbrushing and compressors. He really didn't have much
to say about the competition which, while very politic, wasn't so helpful. Given that I'm going to be painting miniature
figures and Flames of War tanks and such he recommended a different Grex, I
think the XN? It's the one with the
smaller needle and nozzle with the smaller gravity fed cup. He also recommended, no surprise, the grex
air compressor. It's a single piston
compressor but he said that pulsing shouldn't be a problem because it can run
at a high pressure or something which keeps pulsation from happening despite it
having no tank and no second piston. I'm
not sure how much I believe this looking back but what he said did make
sense. Something to do with the hp maybe...?
The next people to get back to me was Joanna from iwata who sent me an email
talking very generically but reinforcing that Iwata makes products of the
highest quality. She brought up the
point that I should look for a compressor based on how much I'm going to be
using it. For just hobby use she
recommended one of the Iwata studio series compressors such as the smart jet or
smart jet pro. Found it interesting that
she didn't recommend any of the compressors beneath the smart jet. Still not sure what the difference is between
the smart jet and the smart jet pro is...
Then Harder and Stenbach (sp?) got back to me. They have a very attractive product, and they
ran me through the features. They just
didn't have a whole lot to say and like everyone else so far were very politic
and didn't have anything bad to say about the other companies.
Then I got an email back from Ken @ Badger who I think is the CEO or boss or
something? In all honesty this was the
response I was least anticipating and was only really asking out of
thoroughness, I'd kind of already dismissed badger for a few reasons. I was extraordinarily surprised by his
response. He was the first of the
companies to address the other brushes besides the, "well, they're all
fine products," response. He made
the point that none of the other brushes I'd been considering would work better
than the badger, and that in fact the badger renegade would provide the
precision, detail and control I need for miniatures. He also highly recommended the Vallejo paints
I have which was reassuring since I'd bought a bunch of the game color line off
of ebay already.
Also, unlike the other companies he provided concrete reasons other than,
"we have a fine product with good quality and other people love our
product" spiel I got from everyone excepting Grex. Specifically, the trigger, the nozzle, weight
balanced, and the quality/manufacturing tolerances. One of the biggest things and something he
touched upon as well is that they provide top of the line performance and features
for a lower price. Definitely a plus for
me. He also offered to help me locate a
quality vendor if need be and provided an email he received from someone who
does the same kind of work that I'm looking to do. As that person said, very much a class act.
So I'm definitely sold on the Badger Renegade R1V-Velocity, their gravity
fed .21mm tip. Now I just need to find a
compressor that fits my budget. I've
heard extraordinarily good things about the Power Jet Pro lite.
As a side note, I spent an hour or so talking airbrushes and compressors
with Dan from Coast Airbrush and he is a class act and a real font of knowledge
and he too recommends the Badger Renegade for the kind of work I'm going to be
doing.