Splitwrist Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 So my father got me a badger 200 single action airbrush and a Airstorm compressor for my birthday. I was really excited and opened everything up right away knowing absolutely nothing about any on it. So now I'm doing some research and have found a lot of bad press about single action brushs. But I've already opened it so I can't take it back. Are they really as bad as everyone is making them out to be? Will it still work to teach myself the basics with and atleast get some priming done with it? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/257833-single-action-airbrush/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterdyne Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Not at all screwed. The difference between a single and dual action is the ability to control the paint flow by means of the trigger. The brush you mention has a needle adjusting nut at the back; you can use this to adjust the paint flow. Makes it much harder to control the spray pattern on the fly, for example, when base coating parts of a mini. For single colour minis, zenithal work, priming and varnishing it should be fine. You'll notice an amount of wastage with the siphon feed compared to a gravity feed and also a need to use slightly higher pressures. You'll want to get a dual action brush soon enough, but you'll probably also need an adapter for your compressor, as the badger has a 1/8" connector, but many other brushes use 1/4" hoses. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/257833-single-action-airbrush/#findComment-3136424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splitwrist Posted July 30, 2012 Author Share Posted July 30, 2012 Not at all screwed. The difference between a single and dual action is the ability to control the paint flow by means of the trigger. The brush you mention has a needle adjusting nut at the back; you can use this to adjust the paint flow. Makes it much harder to control the spray pattern on the fly, for example, when base coating parts of a mini. For single colour minis, zenithal work, priming and varnishing it should be fine. You'll notice an amount of wastage with the siphon feed compared to a gravity feed and also a need to use slightly higher pressures. You'll want to get a dual action brush soon enough, but you'll probably also need an adapter for your compressor, as the badger has a 1/8" connector, but many other brushes use 1/4" hoses. That's what I was hoping to hear from the person I was hoping to hear it from. Awesome Tutorial by the way! And the Airstorm came with a adapter so I'm all good there! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/257833-single-action-airbrush/#findComment-3136445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honda Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Actually, I started out with a dual action airbrush and have since purchased a single action Paasche and prefer it to the former. Consider what the majority of your spraying will be. In my case, It was large areas (e.g. vehicles), basecoating, some zenithal highlights for figures and I found that the single action worked just fine. It seemed to me that considering that I wasn't doing commercial art or the type of painting that required more abilities and control, that the single action meets my current needs. As your skill grows and as Winterdyne suggested, you may find yourself looking for more capabilities, but to start out with, I think you'll be just fine. The only caveat to that is you may want to get a detail head to supplement what the standard head does, but that does not require a new airbrush. Best of luck and do show us what you are able to accomplish once you get up to speed. Cheers, Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/257833-single-action-airbrush/#findComment-3137671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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