"Paint and Air Brush Recommendation" Topic

Been out of the hobby for a while and wondering what is a good paint these days? Used to use polly-S and used to have a badger air brush. Did alright but it was right sensitive when it came to clogging up or maintaining good spraying. Also, never could get as fine of a line as I wanted to with my sprayer.
Was wondering what the opinions are in terms of buying paint (both in terms of quality, price, and color selection)as well as a spray gun.

I use a couple different Iwata Airbrushes, I found that any paint will work, just the dilution ratio that you use. I find that the thinner the paint the better the air-brush operates (windex is your friend here) I know there are a lot of threads on TMP about this subject you should try searching around in the Painting boards, I think you'll find what your looking for. I wish I could still get Polly-S paints, they were wonderful for military units. Good luck with your search.

DI

For an airbrush I recomend a Master serries G44 (under $50) or Pashe Talon $75-$100. Look for a gravity feed, double action kind with a removable crown. tcpglobal.com Taking the crown off lets you get in close for very fine lines. Vallejo and Reaper paints work well but yiu have to thin them with flow improver and slow dry. Vallejo also makes airbrush paint that works well but some colors still need thinned.

I bought an entry level airbrush (GD102)/compressor combo from Airbrush City and I use Vallejo Air paint. Still learning everytime I use it, but I'm pretty happy so far.

I MIGHT be better off buying a better brush. It does clog from time to time when I'm doing small detail work. For basecoats, though, it's been great.

You may want to check Hobby Lobby for an air brush (if you have one in your area). They quite often have 40% off coupons which can be found on their website.

I bought a Badger today in an artshop for doing my buildings – also looked in an art book about air brushing and they talked about using an acrylic medium to bring paints to a more milky consistency.

Anyway, this is what I plan to do, make a mix of 50/50 floor polish (Klear) and water and then use this mix as a 1:1 to dilute my acrylic paint. The floor polish should help flow.

my previous use of an airbrush was not good, but I think I always had the paint too thick.

So I got to looking at this site where people rate air brushes and it seems that Iwata is by far the most popular and has very high ratings from a lot of people.

So They have quite a few choices but I'm thinking that something with a .35 mm needle allows you to get the really small lines such as camo patterns on 1/285. The Iwata HP-CS for $119 USD seems to be top of the line.

I can save about $50 USD or so if I go with a good AB but a .5 mm needle, liek the Iwata revolution, but it probably won't go below 1/8" lines. What do you guys think? Is it worth it or is it really unnecissary for 1/285.

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