right the A.B is sorted badger 360- now what type of paint to use with it ,will be acrylic ,but which,tamiya,vallejo,modelmasters,polyscale,aeromasters,aircraft colors,oh my brain hurts!!!!!you see to many choices i little help (well a lot of help/advice)would be greatly appreciated i,m mainly doing 1/48 aircraft with a little tank throw in ,thanks guys,have a good day ,oldgramme

i use tamiya acrylics diluted with there line of thinners in my badger 150, and i get great results

Frank

As far as which paint?..Whichever you have been happy with. Me personally..vallejo has kept me in the best of moods.

yep decisions decisions....

I use mainly Model master enamals in my 360.. works great..

but also get great results with tamiya acrylics and polyscale acrylics, humbroil super enamals... hmm about the only thing i havn't used is model master acrylics.. lol...

basicly use whatever type you can get the colors you need in and sometimes what you get is what the hobby store carries... :-)

the main thing about using a airbrush is to use the proper thinner for the paint you are using and learn to thin it just right so its not too thin or too thick. (this is the part that takes a lot of practice...) at least for me..

by the way congrats on getting the 360.. you won't be dissapointed with it

I use enamels..... very little acrylics.
Nothing beats the smell of thinner in the air....
Smells like---- modelling to me!!!!........ :-) :-) :-)

I have both Modelmaster and Tamiya acrylics, plus hobby acrylics that I paint with, but I break out th enamels for some stuff. Mostly tanks... I have yet to use an airbrush on a figure, but that is coming soon! I really like that Tamiya acrylics for airbrushing, but they are expensive.

I have some of Badger's airbrush paint I need to try out.

I will post preliminary pictures of my Leopard 2A5 in my galllery. They came out kind of off-focus, but not bad. I want to take it outside and take some pictures today.

Seeing that you live in the U.K.. and you do 1/48 aircraft you should try Hannants' Xtraacrillyx (spelling?). They produce a good range of German (RLM), British (BS) and Americian (FS) colours. They are £1.40 for a 16ml pot which may not seem like very much but the paints cover very will i.e you can get a solid colour with one coat. They also dry VERY quickly (within 10 minuits) and you can thin them with ordinary tap water. The only problem that i have for them is that they tend to dry in the tip of my airbrush (Badger 200 G) if i pause of too long. Merlin has done a full review which you will find in the reviews section.

cheers

Philip

When I did aircraft, I always liked Xtracolor, I think I need to go through Hannants list to see what I can find in WW2 armor colors.