Do You Need a Detail Airbrush?

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Is a “detail” oriented airbrush necessary? I discuss some common misconceptions on the subject.

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I agree wholeheartedly. I've seen great details from awesome artists using a cheaper airbrush. And vice versa. If you dont have control, it doesn't matter what you use.
My workhorse is the iwata eclipse...nothing special but I feel I get great results after spending years trying to master it. Yes, I have a micron and several hi end airbrushes, but I'm always drawn to that eclipse as it's the most comfortable in my hand and most familiar, controlled. Great video trevor.

thomasduchene
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Good to have you back, Trevor. And DAMN, that Iron Man shirt is breathtaking!

DavidMFranks
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Thank you, this was a misconception I had when I started not that long ago, ie. I needed a fine detail airbrush to do fine detail, what I learned though was that I just need to get good at using the airbrush and learn control, still struggling with that. I also appreciate that you put up a picture of your regulator as that also answered a question I had in my mind regarding at rest pressure vs use pressure and I think I might have mine too low or need a better pressure gauge although I think it's both right now.

DarrenGerbrandt
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My compressor sucks, I have a very hard time adjusting the psi on it. I have a Harder & Steenbeck with 2 different needles so I can do detail or general purpose just fine if I had the skill for it. I am realizing now, thanks to this video and others that my compressor and it's lack of a solid adjustment knob is my main problem. It simply will not adjust for anything. It's a Chinese copy of a Sparmaxx desktop or portable compressor and the air adjustment is either bad by design or was bad on delivery and my lack of experience didn't allow me to recognize the issue. I know my brush has gotten harder to work with since I bought this setup and I'm thinking it's really not the airbrush anymore.
Thanks for the great information and advice!!

saltykrug
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Great video, as usual, Trevor!

As someone relatively new to airbrushing, I completely agree. I started out with a .35 cheap airbrush. Moved on to a .35 Neo, assuming a better made brush was the answer.. Currently, I'm primarily using a .2 H&S Infinity. My takeaway from all of it is that the brush in your hand is only as good as the hand. Like you said, basic skills trump the equipment. Once you get past the basics, then the needle size matters, but not until then.

karlbecker
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Great information, I have been struggling to improve, I am using an Iwata hp-cs and Createx paint, reduced to 50%, at 30psi, so I need to keep practicing.

louisliguore
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I feel into that trap and had to get a detail brush but it definitely didn't improve my work much. I just need to put more time in and learn more. Great video.

joshm
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I have been airbrushing for many years and have had many different kinds of airbrushes now I have a Paasche VL it’s a siphon feed it has 3 different needle nozzle sizes and I have 2 Iwata Eclipse gravity feed with a 0.35 needle nozzle I have an Iwata CM-SB side feed micron with a 0.18 needle nozzle. I don’t use the micron very much because the Eclipse is my work horses and do most of the fine lines I need I use the micron for extra fine lines like for a single hair.

joeroberts
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Well me being stubborn bought a harder and steenbeck. But than I bought the kustom CH which I love. With A .35. You are right Trevor I can practically paint anything with any cheap spraygun but the high quality tools do save material. On the other hand I love the ps771, it just gets along very well with the white. Now is my go to airbrush for all the artwork. Thanks for a another great video. In the end for me it comes to reduction on the paint. I can also get the same hair line with the Kustom ch than I can with the ps771.

coolkids
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honestly comin from someone that is an on an off airbrusher no detail brushes have no effect other than they're easier to use for detail art. honestly you can pull just as fine as a line with a neo as you can a detail brush

timc
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nice vid, great advice: a good quality airbrush is a great way to start training basic controls.
I agree that a detail oriented airbrush doesn't make you a better airbrush without mastering the fundamentals first, but once you developed the fundamental controls it does make detailing easier.

svendehaa
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Great video. I have the hp-cs and a sata with a similar sized needle. I bought a micron and it sits 98% of the time.

johnwargo
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I have two airbrushes - H&S Infinity CR Plus 0.15 and Iwata Evolution the same as yours 0.35. What I discovered that triggers of these models have different behavior:
Eclipse has only two modes with air - on and off - too hard to press the trigger on half of his movement, but Infinity lets me press trigger smoothly and uses dynamically different power of the air - so I can do light thin layers. I try to learn to paint miniatures ))). But I like both of my airbrushes because they perfectly complement each other.
They both can draw the thin lines, but I use Infinity in the most cases when I need to work with detalies. You are right, the pressure is imortant with right dillution of paint. I use acrylic paint by Vallejo and set 17-2.0 bar on my compressor.

onairctconairctcru
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Ok so just been watching your amazon Master review and in that review you critiqued its fine line ability saying that the paint didnt come out consistently but at 1:45 in this video it actually looks worse with this airbrush. Im new to this and deciding which brush to buy first and was expecting the fine line from this to be way more consistent and in fact for over 3 x the cost of the Amazon Master expected the fine line to look way better yet it looked worse. Am I missing something?

Compliment_Thief
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Hi Trev
I fell into the same trap as everyone else.
Good tips mate.
Guy

guyverney
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Thanks for sharing the info. I noticed the T-Shirt you were airbrushing at the end of this video. What paint are you using? Would your paint flow through either an Iwata Eclipse Takumi or the Iwata Custom Micron Takumi?

bobbond
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Since you briefly touched on air pressure I have a question do you set the pressure with or without the trigger pulled back?, great video

mikeszczutkowski
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Liked the vid Trevor. Echos very much what I said on the forum. One note tho, you might want to go into why someone might want to experiment with lower pressures however. Getting detail on a rough support at higher pressures is relatively straightforward, but controlling detail, especially microshapes without spidering on a slick surface really depends on pressure control. In fact, controlling spidering could be a whole video series on it's own. LOL.

amplogik
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Hi Trevor 👋 As you know I'm not in this to be like you or anyone else to make a living...my Iwata eclipse was my first air brush, I now have 2..that I use as my favorite, I also have a paasche vision, paasche Talon(3" wide spray cap) for large coverage.. I'm starting my first animal portrait for my sister in-law, I'll send you a picture when I'm done, hopefully with your tips I'll do her pet Justice with the photo reference she gave me...Thanks again for all your videos and advice 🤝👍💓

richardgray
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I started my airbrush journey with H&S Ultra... and it wasn't the best choice for a beginner. Nothing wrong with it, just didn't serve the purpose for my work, mainly because an integrated needle and nozzle cap. Anyway, I bought 0.3mm PS 289... and after a while got myself 0.18 PS 771, but only because found one on sale. I still don't think I've reached even 60% of what 289 is offering, with both I can do the same things and details. The diference for me is that with 771 you get that feeling of lightness in your hands, it doesn't force you to focus as much as 289. So my thought is, if you buy an expensive detail gun to learn how to airbrush, you're doing it wrong. Upgrading yourself with a detailed gun agter gaining skill and control will lift your work to another level, the oposite might be hard to swallow ;) For me the paint cosistency is the key, and was something I was struggling the most, and i still do :)

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