Tonight I finally got abit of time to play with my new airbrush. I quickly got the hang of the double action (wasnt too bad of a learning curve). I also sprayed with enamels for the first time. Dang that stuff stinks I now need to invest in a spray booth.

Iwata RULES!!!

Brian, I agree wholeheartedly! I bought one a couple of months ago as my very first airbrush and it's been great so far. I just completed my first ever German WWII camo job and I'm happy with it as my first effort.

Enjoy - I know I do!

- Frank

Ola

Well I also have an Iwata and I getting ready to try it out this week, but first I have to buy me an air compressor. After that it's learning time baby!!:) I hope it works as well for me as it did for you.

Cheers,
dsc.

Hey Brian,
Glad the Iwata worked out for you. I really like mine and would highly recommend it to anyone.

I suggest using acrylics. The toxicity of the fumes is greatly reduced. I have both an Iwata HP-C and a HP-CR. The Revolution will do 99% of what you want and do a good job of it. I bought an ultrasonic cleaner from micro mark tools and my cleaning efforts have been greatly simplified. Greg

Hi Greg, i have an aztek, and now want to move to a better one, i´m thinking on the iwata brands. Wich ultrasonic cleaner did you buy, i hope the small one. And how do you use it?. is it safe with the needles.

I did buy the smaller one. The interesting thing about U-sonic cleaners is the waves go through glass. So to save cleaner(windex) I have a baby food jar I put windex in and set the jar into the cleaner filled with water. I Spray windex through the airbrushright after painting. Next I take the needle out and place it in the water next to the jar of cleaner. I then set the airbrush nozzle first into the jar of windex. The windex just covers the bowl and the handle is sticking up in the air. I turn the cleaner on and 5 minutes later it is clean. I dry the airbrush off and lube the needle and reassemble until the next spray session.

I wish you people would stop talkin about getting
all this good stuff.

All I could find today in the Revolution line was
a TR-1,you're killin my pocketbook. :-)

Well I was bored so I ordered a Revolution CR to try one out. I am getting a little sick of cleaning a siphon feed. If I like it I may actually sell my beloved Badger The better I am getting at airbrushing, the more I am also noticing the lack of fine control from the siphon feed's action. I'm hoping for a much more consistant trigger response with grav.

I agree about Iwata revolution, for best results I recommend using Gunze sangyo acrylic paints thinned with alchohol that you can buy in pharmacy. Do not use their original thinner for thinning paint, only for cleaning. The reason is that it stucks nozzle with paint really quick becuse it dries paint quicker and combine that with air that comes over the nozzle you'll get

How about this one for a u-sonic cleaner? A LOT cheaper than Micro Marks and looks to be very close if not almost exact.

http://www.jewelsmall.com/ulclcd.html