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I can paint yellow without having to rip out my hair.

Also allows for much quicker basecoating and other neat tricks.

Great for basecoating and directional lighting, but honestly the time required to maintain/set up/mix/prime an airbrush set makes it far less easy to pick up and move that just a normal set of brushes.

It comes down to preference really. I personally dislike the gradient look on some of the pure-airbrushed techniques, but appreciate the kind of time, discipline and accuracy required to get to that sort of skill level.

That said for the undercoat, I cannot get a thinner coat than with an airbrush. It's truly insane. However you'll see that the undercoat tends to chip as it's a really thing acrylic coat, not enamel like you would find in a spray coat, so they would always require sealing.

It's a great way to add to your techniques, but not a complete replacement for the brush, as you end up losing out on techniques as a result.

That's why Vallejo Airbrush primer is a polyurethane for example. Never had a problem with that.

But them that's like the whole spray paint is not primer conversation....