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I am in need of an air brush for a project I am doing. Can anyone make any recommendations? I have never been this far before so I need the whole kit I do have an air compressor and regulator. I was looking at what was listed on Harbor Freight but you never know what the quality will be.
 
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I have a Paasche H brush that I used for model airplanes. I like it. But it is a single action. I have heard good things about the Testors airbrushes.

Dual action brushes control paint & air flow with the trigger. Being a single action, my H brush controls airflow with the trigger and paint flow with a wheel on the needle. I would like to get a dual action one of these days. The dual actions are much more versatile, but there is a bit more of a learning curve. The single action worked best by masking off the part and spraying with one consistency of paint. If I were doing lines and the such I would want a dual action.
 
Hobby Lobby has a very nice Iwata brush called a Neo at a very reasonable price. It comes with a .35mm needle and nozzle and will handle alot of finishes without making them stringy or drying them out too much during spray. Along with paints with paints you can spray most General waterbased finishes including Enduro and most laquers. You just have to make sure they are thinned properly like the airbrush paints for use.

You should also get an airbrush filter along with it it will filter any moisture between the compressor and brush.
 
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Depends what exactly you're doing with it. For simple projects, Badger makes some great single-action workhorses like the 350. Economical and not fiddly. I have several higher-end airbrushes, but this is the one I use almost all the time. It's good for doing even coverage or "fade" effects.

If and only if I need to do really fine lines or lines with variable thickness (such as illustration work), I'll mess with one of my double-action airbrushes. They are much more fiddly, harder to use, and much harder to clean.
 
depends on what your application is. figure out weather you need a single or double action. buy a quality name brand air brush then save money by getting the HF compressor.
 
You might check with member JoeFyffe. He had an extra Paasche that he was going to sell. I took a look at it on Sunday and it was the same as the Paasche that I had. Great condition too.
 
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