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My personal opinion is that gravityfeed is the best since you can run it on lower pressures. Also, I often use as little as two drops of paint for a detail or touchup. Hard to do with siphon feed.
// Andreas
Dark Angels 4th Company (3,830pts) 950pts fully painted
Gravity feed is more flexible, as it can function at lower pressures, as well as higher ones. Also able to utilize less paint, when doing small tasks. When working on miniatures, as you might imagine, many tasks are small.
Siphon feeds can be handy for larger projects, though, like terrain or assembly-line painting whole armies (or, at least, significant portions thereof), as you can load a much larger bottle for continuous painting. Also easier to sight down the barrel (like a gun), which is helpful for some people, since the color cup/bottle is underslung. With a fine nozzle and thin paint, I don't find the feel to be that much different than a gravity feed, once the feed tube has filled, but YMMV. I also find mine easier to clean, but that may just be quirks of the designs of my particular models.
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Get a convertible or side mount - and ignore the argument of which is better...
Oadie hit the big points - though I wouldn't have used the term more flexible with gravity feed. It is different, like a claw hammer is different than a sledge hammer. Neither is better or worse, just designed for different tasks.
When painting miniatures, I use a gravity feed brush most. That is when actually painting them. My siphon feed brushes get far and away more use though. They do my priming, varnishing, large amounts of terrain painting, most my vehicles, some base coat work when doing units at a time...
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