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AFV Painting & Weathering
Answers to questions about the right paint scheme or tips for the right effect.
0.2 or 0.3 airbrush?
tumi
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Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile
Joined: August 17, 2006
KitMaker: 23 posts
Armorama: 22 posts
Posted: Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 09:41 PM UTC
I´m trying to decide on wich airbrush i should purchase. The thing is that I have an Aztek, but i want to upgrade my toolbox so to say. I use Mainly thined acrylics and want to achive fine details. Could someone recomend me wich tip of the airbrush I should choose.
skuki
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Croatia Hrvatska
Joined: June 04, 2006
KitMaker: 70 posts
Armorama: 61 posts
Posted: Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 10:11 PM UTC
I would go for 0.3 for two reasons. First - nozzle is harder to damage or brake, second - 0.2 nozzle gets stuck with paint really quicker than 0.3 nozzle. Some of the acrylic, like MM, are really pain in the a** to work with with 0.2 nozzle.
Recoomend - use 0.3 airbrush and sharpen the needle a bit so it sticks out of the nozzle a bit more, you'll get really really finer lines like that. I have two 0.2 airbrushes but most of the fine work I am doing with 0.35 nozzle with sharpened needle.
tumi
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Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile
Joined: August 17, 2006
KitMaker: 23 posts
Armorama: 22 posts
Posted: Friday, October 06, 2006 - 12:24 AM UTC
thanks....
TopSmith
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Washington, United States
Joined: August 09, 2002
KitMaker: 1,742 posts
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Posted: Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 09:01 AM UTC
I had an Iwata HP-B with a .2 nozzle and traded it out for an Iwata HP-C with a .3 nozzle. I get more use from the .3 nozzle. The .2 was to small for practical applications using acrylics. Cheers, Greg.
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