Update on new Omni 6000!

Well I recieved my Omni 6000 a couple of days ago and I've done alot of painting tests, head to head with my Iwatas with a very good report. I won't go into detail to much in reguard to paint ratios, air presures, etc. to avoid a lengthy post. First of all I am very impressed with the Omni. The Omni's nozzle and needle desighn is almost identical to the Iwata Eclipse line in that the Omni sprayed our heavy pigmented hobby paints with ease! The trigger pull isn't as smooth but not any appreciable difference to my Iwata's. Spraying characteristics were good to with very good atomization of the paint. It wasn't hard for the Omni to produce fine lines as well as broad area coverage as well. With its .4mm needle/ nozzle the spray was very soft with a tight edge with both fine lines and wide spraying, not as refined as My Eclipse HP-CS or BCS but very acceptable for scale realism on most 1/72 and 1/48th scale aircraft camo schemes for example. Work-flow; ie. loading paint, spraying, and changing colors rapidly was just as fast and effortless as my Iwata's. Like other Omni owners have reported, the instruction book was sorely lacking in actual "instruction" but the airbrush parts were emmediately familiar to me and break-down and re-assembly was not a problem. Clean up was just as easy as the Iwata, however; you must concider the detachable side cup, it requires a few more minutes to clean. An important aspect of cleaning is that all parts are easy to access and can be cleaned thouroughly...nice. The Coast Airbrush Omni's have teflon bearings and a special adapter is available for use with the Aztek color cups. Paint flow was great and the Omni seemed to, like my Eclipses, be very tolerant to varying paint ratio mixed for special effects as well as general spraying. All-in-all I would rate the Omni 6000 an "A", being one of the top of the line double action airbrushes available to modelers. My new Omni 6000 will be used for both detail and general spraying to replace a few seldom used Iwatas. I now have the following airbrushes available for sale if anyone is interested:

1. Iwata HP-C (.3mm needle) double action, gravity feed $50.00
*new cut-away handle, crown cap installed, new air hose


2. Iwata Revolution HP-CR (.5mm) double action, gravity feed $30.00
* new cut-away handle installed3.


3. Paasche-H single-action, bottom-feed $20.00
*new stubby crome handle, extra #1, #3 tip available,
tools, bottles and hose available
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Hope you all enjoyed the report and if interested in the above airbrushes, please reply by personal email. Thanks.