Airbrush recommendation

[pinehilljoe]

Hi, I would like to buy an airbrush and compressor to restore Matchbox cars. I had a Badger as a teen. I was looking at the packages on eBay for around $75. Does anyone have one of these?

 

[fubar57]

I have an Aztek A470....love it

 

[Crimea_River]

You won't need anything fancy to do that. A Basic Badger should work.

 

[pinehilljoe]

I have an Aztek A470....love it

is it worth the added expense of buying a compressor with a reservoir tank?

 

[mikewint]

I'm with Geo above, been using my Aztek for about 8 years now and it functions flawlessly and have been looking at the all metal A480. I love the ability to change nozzles by screw off screw on as well as the 9 nozzle variety available. The ability to set maximum paint volume with a thumb screw is also a very big plus.
The tank compressors are nice IF you are doing a lot of airbrushing as the compressor only runs part-time. But for simple model airbrushing I personally don't feel the need as I seldom paint for more than 5-10 minutes at a time. My Testors compressor provides plenty of air volume and very smoothly. It is also approaching 9 years of use with zero problems

 

[pinehilljoe]

I ordered a Neo Iwata . It was new for $50 on eBay. My old Bader was a siphon feed, I wanted to try a gravity feed. And the Neo got good reviews on Don's Airbrush page.