Thursday, August 25, 2011

How: Select a Spray Gun

How: Select a Spray Gun

You want to choose the right weapon for the job at hand, like any other tool. There are several options for weapons at your disposal. It is often difficult to decipher how shopping used for an airbrush with technical jargon by manufacturers. It is an explanation of the options on the basic airbrush.

If you buy for your first airbrush, which brand to add with materials from reliable suppliers. Learn airbrush can be a difficult task, and have not the more frustration poorly built or a gun which was used and damaged by someone else.

Verses is the first option, which we consider of spray double action single action. Single-action airbrush can control not the flow of color in painting. Simple deduction, and receive the mixture of air and paint in airbrushing is defined. Applications of the single-action guns are fairly limited. You can check a double action airbrush the needle at all times, to regulate the flow of the color. Press the shutter button, will receive only air, but how you remove the trigger, further away in tow, paid most of the paintings are. This allows you greater control over the weapon to develop, can happen fine line thickness in a single shot.

To check the second option, is the top energy or gravity for weapons, verses can. As a general rule, allows a gravity of feed spray gun works on the a lower PSI, allows the artist details. Gravity feed spray disadvantages are that the paint Cup can contain only a limited amount of paint, sometimes locks the display of the work of the artist. Spray feed requires to use a higher PSI get the empty effect necessary to increase the painting of the bottle. In general are weapons for the line work and shading and gravity feed spray are used for detail work.

The third option to consider is the size of the needle. Needles size, how big is the opening of the painting atomizes. Usually pins the most small size, the smallest of the line, which can be achieved. A 0.5 mm needle is regarded as standard and meet most types of paint spray gun. Depending on your jurisdiction, a broad range of work with an airbrush with a needle by 0.5 mm possible. The needle is smaller, more color has to be reduced, to correctly flow. Large needles will allow heavy use colors.

Are looking for if you get a good tool, spray gun will be effective 3 following models, recommended, because she are relatively easy to learn and continue to be useful for you too are, as your ability grows.

1. Thayer Chandler Vega 2000 - this is a double action, can airbrush. Can be purchased as a kit with the weapon, a 6 foot tube, bottle painting and 3 different sizes of needles which can be modified by the user.

2. Paasche VL - this is a double action airbrush and a favorite of the airbrush artist was long standing. It is a very popular model for the T-shirts of artists. It can 3 different sizes of rollers, which can be changed based on the color that you want to use also with a bottle and hose kit be purchased as.

Iwata Eclipse HP - BCS - is it a double action, can airbrush. Iwata is currently considered the gold standard in the field gun. Eclipse HP - BCS can be as a kit consisting of a tube of 10 meters and purchased a bottle for the painting. It comes with a needle by 0.5 mm.

Learning, airbrush can sometimes be difficult and frustrating, but with the appropriate equipment and the necessary time and effort, you get exceptional results.

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