10-25-2010, 12:06 AM
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BARCLONE Rocketry
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Mobile, Alabama
Posts: 5,357
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Originally Posted by vdotmatrix
...All I want is an alternative to using canned spray paint to paint my rockets. Nuttin fancy for now but can someone recommend an airbrush set up for someone who'll quickly learn to us it and will probably go on to master basic airbrushing?...
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A really quick-n-dirty way to get into airbrushing is to visit a nearby Harbor Freight store, and look for their basic airbrush kit. It's an overseas-made knock-off of a Badger 350, single-action external-mix, and it works generally well, though the construction is not quite the same. It's cheap, but so is the price. You can often find these on sale for less than $10. I have found them for about $6, and picked up four to have a few spares.
Once you get familiar with something like this one, you can decide how much you want to invest in a better item, like a (true) Badger, or a Paasche.
Caveat: Toss the jars and adapters that come with this brush, and go grab some real Badger jars and adapters. These fit the intake just like they would a real Badger unit. |