Best Airbrush for fine lines

Nov 07, 2003 2 Replies

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John Horner 22 years ago

Hey folks,

I currently have a Badger 350 which I like a lot (except the cleaning, which is pretty tedious) but I was wondering on any opinions about the best airbrush for painting fine lines, like camoflauge lines. I am using the fine tip on the Badger, and it just seems to spray a little too much on each pass, so I wind up painting large areas that I didn't want to cover. I am also using a Badger compressor, no problems there, but perhaps more air pressure would help?

Yeah, I'm pretty unsure, can you tell?

Thanks,

John

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Ted Taylor 22 years ago

John, the brush you need is the Badger 200, the latest has the easy clean head and an all purpose needle. to spry a fine line undo the needle 1/2 to 3/4 of a turn and hold the brush

1/2 an inch from the surface with very thin paint in the jar, I do all my camos freehand like this you can use about 15 to 20 lbs PSI

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David E. Young 22 years ago

I have a trusty Paasche VL, and am able to do fine lines successfully with the #1 tip. I spray strictly acrylics; ModelMaster until now but I'm about to try PollyScale. I thin my paint a bit more than 25% and use 30psi. I used this technique successfully for mottling my 1/32 Bf-109G-6; came out very nice...

Cheers,

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