New Badger Crescendo User

You will like the 175, I think it's a good all around a/b. It leans a little to the heavier spray patterns. If you got all the tips and needles and using acrylics it's probably one of the better next step airbrushes. I have a 175 and use it and compare it to a passche H, which I think is a great do all/learn all a/b. The 175 has the parts, feel and cleanup chores of any airbrush that you will progress to and Badger is a great Co. to deal with. All in all good choice and good luck to ya....................stat

I had a 175 as well and liked it a lot!!!  I think the biggest thing is to practice and learn to get the trick of putting a little bit of paint down.  Putting a lot down is easy with the 175.. it was like the proverbial 40 days and 40 nights of rain when I opened that bad boy up the first time.. after some practice I got it down to where I could do smaller parts and such.  Practice on a milk jug and you'll be really happy once you graduate to a model!

 

tho9900 wrote:

I had a 175 as well and liked it a lot!!!  I think the biggest thing is to practice and learn to get the trick of putting a little bit of paint down.  Putting a lot down is easy with the 175.. it was like the proverbial 40 days and 40 nights of rain when I opened that bad boy up the first time.. after some practice I got it down to where I could do smaller parts and such.  Practice on a milk jug and you'll be really happy once you graduate to a model!

I have the 175 & like Tom says, It puts it down in a hurry Practice with it and you'll get the hang of it in no time. I have yet to paint a model with it Yet, I've been painting  plenty of plastic buckets & milk jugs  Have fun & you will enjoy it.

Well, tried it out last night, base coat on a 1/35 Tamiya Universal Carrier Mk II European Campaign.  Tamiya XF-51 Khaki Drab at about a 3:1 ratio with a couple of drops of retarder in it...Medium nozzle and tip...about 18 psi.  Really good coverage and I like the weight of it...really solid.  However on the gravity drain cup, do most of you tend to tilt the airbrush to keep the cup from "runneth"ing over?

 

ewc2003 wrote:

Well, tried it out last night, base coat on a 1/35 Tamiya Universal Carrier Mk II European Campaign.  Tamiya XF-51 Khaki Drab at about a 3:1 ratio with a couple of drops of retarder in it...Medium nozzle and tip...about 18 psi.  Really good coverage and I like the weight of it...really solid.  However on the gravity drain cup, do most of you tend to tilt the airbrush to keep the cup from "runneth"ing over?

I'm a bit confused here, The 175 is a siphon feed. gere you are asking about a gravity feed.  Here's the 175. Is this what you have?

http://www.dixieart.com/Badger_Crescendo_Model_175.html

Yep, that's it... and if you notice the "metal color cup" it attaches to the bottom, so it's siphon, just feeding from the bottom of the cup as opposed to being sucked up through the plastic "straw".. so I stand corrected... either way, the metal cup tends to be attached at an angle to the bottom of the airbrush, and it tilts... anywhoo, that's my only issue now...

 

 

that's something practicing will help you get over with a siphon fed... with the gravity feds it's not as big of an issue as most them have a cap for the color cup.

If you don't fill it too far toward the top it will be hard to spill it, if you need more paint than that I'd go with a bottle (as in all over coverage on a large tank)

The only thing I would warn you about is make sure the color cup is securely in the pickup tube.  I had mine just "wedged" in there somehow with my old 175 and sadly, my carpet paid a dear price for it

I learned to twist it as I was putting it on and you could feel it move into the tube that way.  By just pushing it on I think it got caterwhompus on me and as soon as I tried to start painting ::GLOP::  off it came!!!

Good luck to you!!!

tho9900 wrote:

that's something practicing will help you get over with a siphon fed... with the gravity feds it's not as big of an issue as most them have a cap for the color cup. If you don't fill it too far toward the top it will be hard to spill it, if you need more paint than that I'd go with a bottle (as in all over coverage on a large tank) The only thing I would warn you about is make sure the color cup is securely in the pickup tube.  I had mine just "wedged" in there somehow with my old 175 and sadly, my carpet paid a dear price for it I learned to twist it as I was putting it on and you could feel it move into the tube that way.  By just pushing it on I think it got caterwhompus on me and as soon as I tried to start painting ::GLOP::  off it came!!! Good luck to you!!!

LoL Tom!! Now I know the reason a got rid of it I haven't had that problem... yet....

It did take me a little getting use to on how to set the color cup so it didn't spill while I was practicing.  Practice makes perfect tho...

You have to "twist" the cup into position. Try putting it about a quarter turn away from the handle (you'll need to point the business end up), insert the cup and twist it towards the handle. You'll feel it get tighter and tighter. I never fill the cup up past the slanted portion, but you still need to be aware of how you are tilting the brush to avoid spills.

Bgrigg wrote:

You have to "twist" the cup into position. Try putting it about a quarter turn away from the handle (you'll need to point the business end up), insert the cup and twist it towards the handle. You'll feel it get tighter and tighter. I never fill the cup up past the slanted portion, but you still need to be aware of how you are tilting the brush to avoid spills.

 

Been there done that

Well, no spillage as of yet, I just use the metal cup for smaller jobs, insert the cup and rotate it towards the air line connection on the left side of the brush.  For bigger jobs... I'll be using the larger cup from underneath the brush body...