Airbrush Paints-What do you suggest?

[MarcoGTI]

Hi Friends

I have bought a Revell Standard airbrush with compressor and now I am thinking about the paints to take.I make Cars and some truck in 1/24 and I have used until now the Humbrol enamel paints for the interior with brush and for the body always spray paint.

I was tired to use the brush so I bought the airbrush so it will be much better but I am not sure about the paint to use.I was thinking to Revell airbrush paint because I think they are good and have already the bottle to attack the airbrush or take Tamiya acrylic or Humbrol paint,but with these I need the bottle to put the color and I don't know where to find empty bottle

What do you suggest me?I want a satin paint result for the interior and a gloss paint for the body

Any help????????Thanx a lot

[SteveK2003]

There are only a few types of airbrush bottles out there, but we don't get Revell airbrushes here: Can you post a picture of the brush and bottle, or a link, so we can see what they use? I looked but can't find anything big enough to see.

Once you have a couple extra bottles, any paint will work well for airbrushing if you thin it properly. I like acrylics because they clean up easily and dry quickly (Some of them do), but enamels can be more forgiving sometimes. If you can't find the color you want in semigloss or flat, you can spray a semigloss or flat clearcoat over it.

[Vric]

Stay with acrylic paint. This airbrush don't handle Lacquer paint correctly (it will melt the "airbrush"). If it's like my Aztek a370 (which died long ago) it should even be listed in the instruction that it's an Acrylic airbrush and anything other would damage the airbrush.

Edit: Enamel paint (from testor) will also work for a while. but be sure to use the Testor thinner to clean and thin your paint. The Enamel thinner from Hardware store, which is MUCH cheaper (3$ for 2 gallons vs 2$ for 250ml...) is also harder on plastic. Your airbrush would die in few weeks/months with that. With lacquer, it would die nearly instantly. It's not the paint that is harmful, it's the thinner you use to thin and clean the airbrush that will kill it.

[MarcoGTI]

Originally Posted by SteveK2003

There are only a few types of airbrush bottles out there, but we don't get Revell airbrushes here: Can you post a picture of the brush and bottle, or a link, so we can see what they use? I looked but can't find anything big enough to see.

Once you have a couple extra bottles, any paint will work well for airbrushing if you thin it properly. I like acrylics because they clean up easily and dry quickly (Some of them do), but enamels can be more forgiving sometimes. If you can't find the color you want in semigloss or flat, you can spray a semigloss or flat clearcoat over it.

Here are the link:
http://www.revell.de/typo3/en/produc...SCHL=01&page=1

A bottle is about 2,50 euro(3$) and I think that it's a good price because empty bottle are sold on ebay around 2$.
My problem is that I haven't empties bottles to put the color so first I have to buy color with a bottle to save some money.I think that it's the better solution and in the future when the color in the bottles will finish,I will choose humbrol Tamiya Revell or Testors to recharge the bottle.
In Italy aren't sold the Revell airbrush paint so I have to take them by ebay from Germany,I think only there they are sold.In the USA aren't sold by Revell/Monogramm?

[Vric]

Btw, which model of airbrush you have. Testor airbrush goes from crap to good. They rebrand some Badger 150 and 360 which are very good.

[MarcoGTI]

Originally Posted by Vric

Btw, which model of airbrush you have. Testor airbrush goes from crap to good. They rebrand some Badger 150 and 360 which are very good.

I have a Revell Standard class,it's my first airbrush so I didn't take a professional or expensive airbrush.You can see it here:
http://www.revell.de/typo3/en/produc...2C+ARARB5&mas=

[SteveK2003]

I did find a few pictures online, and it looks to me that it is very similar to the Badger 350.

I can't really tell from the bottle size from those pictures, but there are a couple basic types: The smaller bottle is found on the Testors Model Master enamels and Acryl acrylic (Which I use), and a larger bottle which uses the Badger Fast Blast caps (There is just one straight piece of tubing that siphons the paint and feeds it into the bottle, so it's easy to clean). I believe the nominal sizes of the caps are 28mm and 33mm respectively.

Along with some extra bottles, get a couple extra bottle tops so you can just set the one you just used in thinner and use another one for the next color right away.