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  • Member since
    August 2006
  • From: Neenah, WI
Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:19 PM

There are airbrushes that will do a very thin line, but none that will do a line as fine as a technical pen could, it is the nature of spraying the paint, so you will always get a feathered edge to it.

I might be speaking a bit out of turn, but there are few modelers/hobbist who actually freehand their fine lines. Most use a masking medium of some sort. I do a great deal of freehanding with my paint schemes, whether it be 'smoke rings' or those squiggly continues lines found on German aircraft. I saw somewhere that a modeler made friskets for them!

I was always in search of a 'better' airbrush to do thin lines, though I can get close, I still find the need in many applications to use masking for the finer ones which need consistancy in width and density of color. 

So when you ask about a fine line airbrush, it depends on what your intentions and applications are needed to be known before a solid recommendation can be made. However, most double action airbrushes such as the Paasche VL with the smallest needle or the Iwatas do remarkable job at fine lines. It is as much of the operator as it is the airbrush. 

Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt

http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/

 

 

"Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."

  • Member since
    August 2007
Posted by ben1227 on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:05 PM
I have the medium tip for it too, and you can make some pretty fine lines, but the fine tip does it even better.
.:On the Bench:. Tamiya 1/72 M6A1-K
  • Member since
    January 2008
  • From: Washington DC
Posted by PleoMax on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:54 PM

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

100G is an excellent airbrush.

  • Member since
    May 2005
  • From: Left forever
Posted by Bgrigg on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:42 PM
Get the fine head/needle assembly (PN 50-0161) and Needle (PN 50-0401) and keep using your Badger 100G!

So long folks!

  • Member since
    March 2005
  • From: Georgia
Fine line airbrush
Posted by gpal on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:45 PM

Hello,

I would like to know what airbrush would be good for fine lines and fine camo painting . Can you use fine tip air brushes with acrylic paints? I have a badger 100g med tip but does not seem to be fine enough.

Thanks, George 

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