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Both arts of paint applications are skills on its own right.

RayND wrote:
Airbrushing and brush painting both take immense skill when considering the apex of their respective fields, but for miniature painting? I'd break it down like so:

Brush = 10% skill, 10% equipment, 80% patience
Airbrush = 10% skill, 80% equipment, 10% patience

you obviously never held an airbrush before... sure you can just slap some paint on a mini and consider it painted with 10% skill but i dont think this is the case here...

I feel like this is a stupid poll because what is having more skill?? being able to use a tool everybody can use because there is like as easy as putting a brush into a pot of paint and then just pressing the furry end covered in paint against a random surface??
Its hard to learn how to use an airbrush, VERY hard!! Even if you take lessons from a pro it will take you a fair amount of time to do some fairly basic stuff with it.

and then again not one painter using an airbrush is able to finish a model without the use of a regular brush.

in my opinion who has more skill? the person using the airbrush because he has to master more tools and techniques!