Looking for a large needle airbrush

The Paasche VL and The Badger 175 have a 1.0mm nozzle option.  And the Paasche Talon has a .66mm nozzle with a fan cap that gives pretty wide coverage.  The Badger 20/20 Sotar can use a .7mm nozzle, but it has an awfully small cup for such a large size.

How large a pattern do you need?

Don

Don is absolutely right as usual. I have had a Sotar 20/20 in the past and the cup is too small, so don't consider it. His suggestions are perfect. I would thnk the Badger 175 is just right. I have a Badger Patriot 105 with a .7 setup and it is all I need for wide coverage. What are you painting that needs the coverage?

Don Wheeler

The Paasche VL and The Badger 175 have a 1.0mm nozzle option.  And the Paasche Talon has a .66mm nozzle with a fan cap that gives pretty wide coverage.  The Badger 20/20 Sotar can use a .7mm nozzle, but it has an awfully small cup for such a large size.

How large a pattern do you need?

Don

 

Well, Im about to paint a 1/72 B-52. I think at least an inch or an inch and a half. I'm to the point that I want a quality gun but I can only buy one so I need one that can give small and large patterns. Is the .7 needle set available separately for the Sotar 20/20?

I have a grex tritium with a .2 and .3 needle with a fan spray attachment.  It ran me about 300 with all the extra needles, larger cup and fan spray.  It can go up to .5 needle.

It comes with three cups but you can purchase a 50ml and a 125ml cup which is 4oz, giant in the modeling world.

With the .2 needle I can get almost iwata micron fine lines and with the .3 and fan spray nozzle I get a 3 inch fan spray pattern, plenty for what you are doing.  They also sell a fan nozzle for the .5 needle.

Being a gun trigger style grip double action airbrush, it very easy to use and for longer painting sessions my hand does not fatique as quickly and I can use this gun both left and right hand and still have good control since it's a trigger grip.

You might want to check out Paul Budzik's video on this.  My personal opinion, based on work I have seen, is that large area coverage can be done well with a standard medium nozzle airbrush. But Paul makes a good point.

Don

What is the intreat in a sotar may I ask?  Do you have one already? They are pricey and if you are not using it for detail work the refinements of the Sotar will be lost on larger paint areas. There are may better choices for wide area spraying. For deatil it is one of the best.

Thanks for the info

I have a Badger 175. You can buy it in a kit that comes with fine, medium and heavy needles, tips and caps. I don't use it that often any more but it is a fine airbrush. You can use it for fairly fine work as well as broad coverage and with a large bottle or two you could spray forever. Or, you could use the cup adapter and use it as a gravity feed with just a little paint at a time. Tony