Best airbrush for enamel paints?

QUOTE: Do acrylic paints go through fine tips/nozzles with greater ease? I'm wondering because I want to improve my painting skills and would like to be able to spay very fine lines.

QUOTE: Originally posted by MikeV Tom, I am assuming you mean the fine needle/tip in the quote above correct? Mike yeah I did forget to include that didn't I? yeah through the med tip/needle paint just flows through with ease... ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it! Reply TANGO 1 Member since December 2002 From: A secret workshop somewhere in England Posted by TANGO 1 on Saturday, October 23, 2004 5:19 PM Many thanks for your thoughts guys, I'll check out some of the other posts you mentioned too. Do acrylic paints go through fine tips/nozzles with greater ease? I'm wondering because I want to improve my painting skills and would like to be able to spay very fine lines. Thanks, Darren. Regards, Darren. C.A.G. FAA/USNFAW GB Reply MikeV Member since April 2003 From: Hayward, CA Posted by MikeV on Saturday, October 23, 2004 11:28 AM QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900 for my Badger 175 I have heard you would have to ridiculously thin the enamel to get it to spray well so I haven't tried it.. but with the med needle I do just fine! Tom, I am assuming you mean the fine needle/tip in the quote above correct? Not only does the paint have to be thin enough for the fine needle/tip combo, it also has to have pigment that is ground finely enough to flow through the airbrush reliably and that is usually difficult to obtain with model paints. The fine needle/tip combos were designed to spray things like inks, gouche, urethanes and water colors that have extremely fine pigments. As my friend Scooter says, trying to spray some of these paints through a fine nozzle is like trying to get a boulder through the opening if you look at it from a microscopic level. Mike “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon Reply tho9900 Member since July 2004 From: SETX. USA Posted by tho9900 on Saturday, October 23, 2004 7:38 AM yup, any airbrush can shoot enamel through it... depending on the needle/nozzle assembly you use. for my Badger 175 I have heard you would have to ridiculously thin the enamel to get it to spray well so I haven't tried it.. but with the med needle I do just fine! Look down on the page and maybe go to the second page of the Painting/Airbrushing topic and you can read MANY posts about airbrushes and comparisons etc... If you are stuck on gravity fed (thats what I am getting next, but I still would use my siphon fed Badger 175 and 155, eventually I just want to try a gravity fed for the details...) Iwata and Omni both make very good gravity feeds. Badger has the universal 360 which is a fine airbrush as wel, you can use it siphon fed OR gravity fed, but some have complained about the small paint cup it has... Good luck! ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it! Reply MusicCity Member since January 2004 From: USA Posted by MusicCity on Saturday, October 23, 2004 6:55 AM I have three airbrushes; an old Badger 200 (siphon feed), an Omni 3000 (siphon feed), and an Omni 4000 (gravity feed). Most of what I spray these days is acrylic but I do throw in a bit of enamel from time to time and I've never had any problem with any of those three handling enamel or laquer paints. I know MikeV uses a lot of enamel in his Omni and Saltydog uses a lot in his Iwata (not sure what model he has) with no problems. If you the paint thinned properly you really shouldn't have any problems unless the airbrush has a very fine nozzle that is just too small for the paints that we use. Edit ... I saw in a post below that Saltydog uses an Iwata HP-CS. Thought I'd throw that in. Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page Reply TANGO 1 Member since December 2002 From: A secret workshop somewhere in England Best airbrush for enamel paints? Posted by TANGO 1 on Saturday, October 23, 2004 6:00 AM Hi everyone, I'm in the market for a new airbrush and wanted something that's gravity fed, which is capable of wide and fine line spray patterns which also gets on with enamels. I mainly build 1/48 aircraft and wondered if any of you use enamels through your airbrush without any problems. Some folks have told me that certain brushes don't work well with enamels. Any advice would be very much welcomed by this confused modeller! Regards, Darren. C.A.G. FAA/USNFAW GB Reply JOIN OUR COMMUNITY! Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account. 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