Klaus von Groehm wrote:What do you want to use it for? Tanks or terrain?
My 0.3mm airbrush does a great job for vehicles, especially when the paint is thinned down well. I've even airbrushed skyboxes for photos without it taking too much time.
Tanks, larger vehicles (1/25 cars, 1/32 to 1/72 aircraft).
Buttery Commissar wrote:DeVillbiss offer a good range of controllable wider spray guns.
I'll have a look, cheers. The first one I saw, the DeVillbiss Compact Mini, was over $400, maybe they have some other stuff
Maybe cheaper spray guns are just junk, I dunno, I was hoping I could find people who had tried them.
I believe a 0.7mm should blast through an airbrush load of paint pretty fast.
Talys wrote:I use a Paasche Talon with a 0.68mm needle. There's a fan head, too, that comes in the 3 needle kit, but I've never used it, as 0.68 is big enough for everything I do other than priming terrain boards, which I still use rattle cans for.
If you run it at 25-30 psi, lots of paint goes in a big area
GW Building sized models (a la Cities of Death) and basecoating terrain tiles goes pretty quick for me -- I basecoat on all 6 of the Realm of Battle city tiles, with more than a half-dozen colors, in a single night with the paasche.
The problem I have with the 0.7mm in my airbrush is the cone isn't large enough. It blows through the paint, yes, it dumps a massive load of paint on to the model, but because the cone is only marginally wider than my 0.35 nozzle I either maintain the same spraying distance (flooding the area unless I move like lightning) or move the airbrush further away (spraying a larger area, but too much air ends up in the mix and the finish comes out grainy because the paint is starting to dry in the air). I know you can get spray guns with a 0.5mm nozzle that will cover area better than a regular airbrush with a 0.7mm nozzle... it's just up until now all the recommendations I've received are for $250+ spray guns
The graininess isn't really a problem on terrain or tanks which are going to be matte or satin, even most my aircraft don't look too bad with a satin finish (though could be better!). But on cars with a gloss finish or aircraft with a bare metallic finish you need a smooth finish otherwise it looks horrible.
The Paasche talon with the fan attachment sounds interesting. I might look in to that as well, though in past experience Paasche has been overpriced in Australia, so it might not be a great option.
Sounds interesting, though we don't have harbour freight over here.
Thanks for the input from everyone
