hey guys- does anyone have an old airbrushing set theyd like to get rid of for cheap? if so let me know. Also, if there are any experts or people with experience out there, mabye you could give me some tips? thanks alot
hey guys- does anyone have an old airbrushing set theyd like to get rid > of for cheap? if so let me know. Also, if there are any experts or people > with experience out there, mabye you could give me some tips? thanks alot …Look-up Harbor Freight Tools,they have cheap airbrush kits,and touch-up spray guns…Herb…p.s. Check the archives too!
hey guys- does anyone have an old airbrushing set theyd like to get rid > of for cheap? if so let me know. Also, if there are any experts or people > with experience out there, mabye you could give me some tips? thanks alot biggest tip i can give is filter your color thru a strainer to get the crap and buggers out of your oaint ( and they ARE there even if you can’t see them) mix the color thinner than you would your big paint gun. airbrushes are really fickel. spray at lowest pressure you can. jc
hey guys- does anyone have an old airbrushing set theyd like to get rid > of for cheap? if so let me know. Also, if there are any experts or people > with experience out there, mabye you could give me some tips? thanks alot Here is another good site: http://www.dixieart.com/ You may want to start with a quality brush. Most people buy an “entry level” brush and outgrow it on their first project. You can get a “kit” or set (hose, bottles, 3 needles, doubble action airbrush) for about $65. If you do not have a compressor, you can use canned air (about $7) in place of a compressor or even run it off a car tire to get the hang of it. Shine http://users.leading.net/~shine
hey guys- does anyone have an old airbrushing set theyd like to get rid > of for cheap? if so let me know. Also, if there are any experts or people > with experience out there, mabye you could give me some tips? thanks alot If you are going to be doing any quantity of painting get a good “brush” I have been using a gravity fed HVLP spray gun that I bought at Lowes (after I got mad at the cheap gun and hucked it into the woods in the middle of painting 5 boards). Anyway this gun set me back about 100 bucks(which really isn’t expensive) and has been worth it. I use it to spray everything from large areas to small edge fades. It also cleans like a dream, I just dump out the paint into its container, take the paint cup off of the gun & rinse, take off the tip and nozzle, clean out the tip, run water through the body and needle, and reassemble, I can switch to a new color in about 2 minutes, the old gun took forever to clean and really never got clean. I also like it because it just sips paint, the other brushes I have had put more paint in the air than on the board, which can be quite expensive. I don’t even use a pencil brush anymore and cringe at the memories of using one. Of course if you want nicer set up, the Appollo 1000 arrived just the other day… Good luck, Matthew
I own a Badger low volume pen-type airbrush which I hate also. For a gift, I recently bought an Iwata Eclipse siphon pen-type dual action airbrush. It has a .5 mm tip. That brush rocks. It puts out an extreme range of paint volume, and has an extreme range of pattern width. It cleans easily. The salesman taught me how to clean acrylics out of airbrushes. You spray a 50/50 mix of ammonia window cleaner and water through the brush. You spray the cleaner periodically before paint can dry in the brush, or between colors. It works.>>> If you are going to be doing any quantity of painting get a good > “brush” I have been using a gravity fed HVLP spray gun that I > bought at Lowes (after I got mad at the cheap gun and hucked it into the > woods in the middle of painting 5 boards). Anyway this gun set me back > about 100 bucks(which really isn’t expensive) and has been worth it. I use > it to spray everything from large areas to small edge fades. It also > cleans like a dream, I just dump out the paint into its container, take > the paint cup off of the gun & rinse, take off the tip and nozzle, > clean out the tip, run water through the body and needle, and reassemble, > I can switch to a new color in about 2 minutes, the old gun took forever > to clean and really never got clean. I also like it because it just sips > paint, the other brushes I have had put more paint in the air than on the > board, which can be quite expensive. I don’t even use a pencil brush > anymore and cringe at the memories of using one.>>> Of course if you want nicer set up, the Appollo 1000 arrived just the > other day…>>> Good luck,>>> Matthew
I own a Badger low volume pen-type airbrush which I hate also.>>> For a gift, I recently bought an Iwata Eclipse siphon pen-type dual action > airbrush. It has a .5 mm tip. That brush rocks. It puts out an extreme > range of paint volume, and has an extreme range of pattern width. It > cleans easily.>>> The salesman taught me how to clean acrylics out of airbrushes. You spray > a 50/50 mix of ammonia window cleaner and water through the brush. You > spray the cleaner periodically before paint can dry in the brush, or > between colors. It works. Pasche sells a nice double action airbrush with several tips and a couple of jars for around $100. Double action is the only way to go if you are going to spray anything other that solid colors. You need to be able to modulate paint flow. Pacific Airbrush supply in Anaheim, CA sells every imaginable airbrush including this kit. Couple it up with a low cost air compressor from Costco/Sams Club and you’re in the color business for around $250.