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Originally Posted by cigbunt
at £70 it would leave me a few ££ to get the rest of the materials....
i've never airbrushed so i don't want to jump the gun and spend shed loads of cash on it i like to stick to my budgets 
ive seen brushes with the jar at the bottom or gravitiy loaded which is better for a new starter? its quite confusing because i dont know what im buying lol... |
Where are you in the country you don't have a location on your profile ? Are there any airbrush artists / outlets anywhere near you ? It might be an idea to try and spend an hour with someone and see what you think / how you get on.
Gravity fed airbrushes have traditionally always been used by 'artists' as they used to always have finer nozzles and spray patterns. This isn't quite so true now but I will only use gravity ones, I hate side cups or the suction fed as you can't get as close to the work because the bottle always gets in the way, the cleaning of them is more involved to.
However if you're looking to spray more model based paints which are thicker than water colours and inks that I mentioned in my previous post you would need to get a bigger nozzle anyway so maybe the suction fed is better for you ? I have several gravity feed ones ranging from superfine to a 0.8 nozzle, I prefer them, it's down to personal taste.
Unfortunately and I'm sure almost everyone on here will agree, you can't go anywhere and 'test drive' and airbrush, great shame that as I'd love to try before I buy. Most of them are much of a muchness though.
That kit looked okay although I've never heard of the compressor or the brush. Phone everything airbrush, speak to them, see what they can do. Wait until after Christmas, get something in a sale. You do get what you pay for to an extent !
For starting out those type of little compressors are okay, my first compressor was like that. They vibrate quite a bit so I used to find myself concentrating heavily on what the picture was looking like as I built up the colours and then the air hose would go tight as the compressor has wandered halfway across my bedroom floor
I bolted it to a big board to stop it happening but I caught my foot on the board all the time so I went and bought a decent compressor. Was quieter and less vibratory.
Anyway enough of my ramblings, go find yourself a localish airbrush artist, offer to pay for their time if you can sit with them for an hour and have a try with it, see what you think, get one, get addicted to it like the rest of us
