Bob- Your Zero is coming along just fine.
Joe- Welcome back. Glad you could return!!
NucMedTech- So sorry to hear of your ‘glassware’ mishaps. Here’s hoping some of the tips will work out for you.
Something to Share- I have a Badger 200 internal mix airbrush that I bought in the early 1980’s when I began Model Railroading. I have always been meticulous with respect to a complete cleaning at the end of a painting session, or so I thought.
The other day I was painting away on a project for a local IPMS GB when all of a sudden the brush was plugged, no paint would go through it. I disassembled the head and needle and cleaned everything and still no flow. Repeated the operation a second time and still no flow. Logic told me I HAD to have something clogging up the head assembly so I dismantled it again and soaked it MEK, a rather strong solvent and took the head into my hobby room and looked under the magnifier and could not see through the tiny hole in the end. I found a very tiny wire in my stash and ran it through the head and got a glob of paint gunk on the wire. I repeated cleaning with the wire until I could remove no more material.
I reassembled everything and WOW, what a difference. That brush performed so much better. I think the performance had been deteriorating little by little over time due to a small amount of paint build up and that last paint I used had a clump in it that plugged the works. Because of the slow deterioration in performance, I never noticed it.
That small piece of wire is now a part of my airbrushing kit and its use part of my end of session cleaning.
Oh and a mini-progress report- I painted the grey underside on my P-40 yesterday and need to ask you all some questions about silly putty, but let me digest my thoughts first.