Old school vs. New school

I guess I'm really "old school" and probably will never graduate.....

I'm still using the only airbrush I've ever owned, a Paasche H1 that I've had since 1975.

OK, you can shoot me now....

Gip Winecoff

The Badger 250! I didn't want to go too Old school, but that was my VERY 1st brush in the 10th grade. Practiced on some Airfix clunkers. I too upgraded to a 200 the next year after my summer job, so I consider that my 1st real brush many moons ago ( 1978 ).

For me "old school" is the badger 250. You know, the blue plastic single action external mix with the bottle attached. This was my first airbrush and I didn't know any better and I thought it was da bomb. Much later I got a plain badger 200 single action internal mix and I said "oh, this is what an airbrush is". Now I have a double action and well, now I'm just slowly collecting airbrushes

I always remember to break it down to the core definition: Air + paint = airbrush. In that way they are all the same.

Speaking from my experience using the Badger airbrushes you mentioned I will take a 150 and a 100 lg over the other models anyday. I think they spray better are capable of achieving finer detail and are just all around more versitle airbrushes. The150-100 series have three head assemblies- now you can say the Cresendo and VL do but the 100 series fine nozzle/needle is really that, where as the fine nozzle on the other two are the size of the Med nozzle/needle on the 100 series. I will say that the cone nozzle like the anthem and cresendo have are easier to clean for someone who isn't use to cleaning an airbrush.
John

well my "old school" brush was a BAdger 350 back in 1988 or so... it wokred ok.. but after getting my Crescendo by Badger, then my Anthem... I have to say they are MOST definitely improvements.. I remember with the 350 having to adjust the amountof paint outpu and pressure, then paint one color... clean and do it all over again...

now it is just paint clean paint clean.. no adjustments since it is all on the fly now...

Which thinking about your AB question for a 14 yr old.,.. maybe double action is the way to go.. there is no such thing as a "learning airbrush" in my opinion.. as if he gets good with a single action, he'll still have to learn all over again with a double... why not learn once and slowly get better with the same airbrush? it's only a few dollars difference at Dixieart.com

I'm 1 city south of you. Hello from Kennesaw.

I have to say I like the Omni 5000 and the Eclipse better than the Paasche H or the Paasche VJR. I like both of those old Paasche ones for their own reasons though. The Omni and the Eclipse are just too good. That's just speaking of the four airbrushes I have or used to have. The Eclipse is the only one I've gotten rid of.