Badger 175 airbrush "crescendo"

Hey all,

Does anyone own or use this airbrush? I was just reading Badgers site..and I think this is what I am looking for. I am looking for very fine detail in an airbrush. If anyone could help me out, I would greatly appreciate it!

-Chris

I love my Crescendo, but honestly if you want fine detail you need to look elsewhere. The Crescendo is a high-volume airbrush, even w/the smallest needle and tip it won't give you fine-line detail like a dedicated fine-line airbrush can give you (forget trying to make a pencil line with it, it's not gonna happen). If however you want a workhorse airbrush to simply paint all the parts of your model and flow very nicely on the body, it's fantastic.

ok thanks man! I have an iwata hp-c and eclipse....i just wanted to try something new....Im gonna experiment w/ my iwatas more. Thanks!

-Chris

When I was shopping for Airbrush, a member helped me a lot about that.

He told me the Crescendo that have 3 nozzle can to the same as the Anthem. Since Anthem (155) is cheaper and it's less pain to have 1 nozzle instead of 3, I took the 155.

Imo, Badger 155 and 360 are 2 good choices. The 175 is more like "look, I have 3 nozzle for an incredible price" airbrush.

Since you already have 2 great airbrushes, I wouldn't think about the 175. If you want to "try" something new, try the 360.

That said, I love my Anthem :D

If you already have an Iwata HP-C then you should already be able to do hairlines with some practice. I have one too but never use it since my Revolutions are more suited to 99% of automotive model work. If you do want something better then you'd have to plum for something like an Iwata Custom Micron. Never tried one myself but I've been told they are one of the best for detail work. Of course the price is going to be pretty steep.

I've currently got three airbrush's:
Aztek A470: for just putting primer and general colour coats on,
DeVillbis Sprite: for shading and highlighting,
Paasche Millenium for very fine detailing work.
Oh, nearly forgot, a gravity feed spray gun for when I've got loads of the same colour to paint and for when I clearcoat, since I use mainly automotive paints for my painting needs the 600ml pot means I don't have to keep feeding it paint every 5 minutes:banghead:
A good bud of mine who paints murals uses a Sotar 20-20 for extremely fine detail work, some of the line widths he can get down to is incredible, we're talking spiders eyelash hairs:lol2:, very expensive piece of kit to buy and very delicate to look after but, if you're after detail then that's the way to go:smile: