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Posted by ABARNE on Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:36 PM

My recommendation would be for a Paasche H.  You can get a boxed set that includes fine, medium, and large tips along with color cup, small, and large siphone bottles for about $50.  I have both the Paasche H and Badger 200 NH, and honestly when I look at my actual results there's little to choose in terms of painting capability, line width, atomization etc.  Both do an excellent job. 

However, if your looking to start with one now and maybe a upgrade to a more expensive dual action (Badger 100, Iwata, whatever), I think the Paasche is more versatile (with the large tip and bottle it does a great job of spraying varnish on display bases)  than the Badger, it's paint flow adjustment is a bit more convenient, and it is a bit easier to do the occasional break down cleaning.

Andy 

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Posted by MusicCity on Sunday, April 15, 2007 7:14 AM
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Posted by Torio on Saturday, April 14, 2007 9:29 PM

 

What about an Omni 4000 ?

 

Thank you all for coming José

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Posted by Gigatron on Saturday, April 14, 2007 11:08 AM

Just as an aside, you may want to consider a gravity feed as opposed to a bottom/siphon feed. 

I have both a gravity and bottom feed and I find that the gravity feed has become my more utalitarian brush.  I use the bottom feed for spraying large areas (like for coats of future or fuselage colors), but I use the gravity feed for everything else.  The gravity feed can handle large areas, but it means having to refill the cup every now and then.

The gravity feed wastes less paint as there's never that little at the bottom that you can't reach.  You use less air as the air is used to push the paint out instead of creating and maintaining a vaccuum.  And for the same reason, you can make finer lines.  BUT, changing colors means that you have to clean the cup after each color, which can be a bit time consuming.

The bottom feed is nice in that you can paint large areas without having to worry about running out.  The bottle can also act as a storage container, which is nice if you have just whipped up a custom color.  Swapping colors is easier because you just pull off the bottle, run some cleaner through the brush and swap on a new bottle.  BUT, there will always be that little bit of paint left at the bottom of the bottle that the straw just cant't pick up.  And because you need a minimum PSI to create and maintain the siphon vaccuum, you are limited with how fine of a line you can spray.

FWIW, I have an Iwata Eclipse BCS and an Iwata Revolution BR.

-Fred

 

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Posted by ruddratt on Friday, April 13, 2007 10:00 PM

Another vote for the Badger 200NH. I've had mine almost forever. It was the second airbrush I bought and it still serves it's purpose quite well all these years later.

 

Mike

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Posted by MontanaCowboy on Friday, April 13, 2007 8:49 PM

It has to be the Badger 200NH. It's awesome.

 

It's  about halfway down this page. 

 http://www.dixieart.com/Badger_Model_200_Single_Action_Internal_Mix.html

 

Here's a starting article. 

 

If your interested, I also have a Paasche VL double action for $25 + shipping. PM me if your interested. 

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a good firts airbrush
Posted by crazygerman on Friday, April 13, 2007 8:26 PM

 Up until now all my paintjobs have been out of a spray can but i want to get better finishes, can anyone recomend a good first airbrush for someone on a budget?, i'm looking for something that will be cheap enough until i have a little more money, but good enough to learn and get experiance on, thanks

crazygerman

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