California, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 09:03 PM UTC
Ok, since we all love to collect kits, im pretty sure we to a certain extent do the same with airbrushes, just not as many.
Personally, I have an Iwata, 4 badgers, and 1 paasche. Like them all, just each is used for certain things. (bought my last 2 AB last week) I can pass those off without the wife seeing them cause no big box.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 09:27 PM UTC
I know one guy in our club, Matt, aka Red4 on here, that has a bunch. Sixteen I think. I'm wondering when you say you "just each is used for certain things" does that mean you have each one set up for something else? I don't know that much about higher end ABs, I've got an Aztec, so I don't know if you have to get them diferent ways for different things or not.
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North Carolina, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 09:29 PM UTC
Just two - Badger 175s. I dumped my old testors single action and gave my brother another older one I had.
England - North East, United Kingdom
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Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 09:33 PM UTC
Hmmmmm 0 :-) , but saving for one
Ian
California, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 09:43 PM UTC
Halfyank, I use my cheap end badger that I bought last week for shooting future or pigments through. The paasche for those "hair thin" lines. Hardly use the Iwata, just depends what im doing. Badgers, same as the Iwata.
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matt
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Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 09:44 PM UTC
I have 3
Iwata HP-C
Paasche VL
and a olds Badger 250 (for groundwork and the like)
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England - East Anglia, United Kingdom
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Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 09:47 PM UTC
I have 3 now but would like an Iwata one day, bit of saving required as they are really pricey in the UK.
Aztek 470 in a superb box
Mtal Aztek again in a lovely box
Paasch Millenium
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Kansas, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 10:03 PM UTC
I have acquired 8 over the years...
Binks - 1 (my first ... 1972) still works as good as the rest
Thayer & Chandler - 1
Pasche - 2
Badger - 2
Aztec - 2
along with...
Compressors - 2
Co2 20# Bottle - 1
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California, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 10:24 PM UTC
I use to have the Aztec and the Tamiya one which came with a compressor. Thought both were not that great far as I was concerned. Kept the compressor though, that one I still use.
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England - North, United Kingdom
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Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 10:25 PM UTC
Three at the minute, but look to get an Iwata next week
AB-130 (Iwata copy)
Revell 360
Aztek 7778
There all different and have there own little quirks.
Illinois, United States
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Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 04:34 AM UTC
Two here. My first one (Aztek), and an old used one that found its way into my clutches (Paasche VLS) that I'm practicing with.
Mike
Nebraska, United States
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Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 07:20 AM UTC
I have three. Two azteks (a270, and a470) dont use the 270 for anything, its been repaired twice and the trigger still breaks off

Also just got a new Iwata hp sbs plus. Cheers Kevin
North Carolina, United States
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Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 08:20 AM UTC
Got 2 so far.
Paasche V and a Paasche VL.
Just bought the VL today.
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Kansas, United States
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Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 08:45 AM UTC
Ack!
All I need is me old Badger 150. And it's probably older than many of the posters on this thread ... I got it "used" in 1985. All you have to do is take care of your tools ... and use a rattle-can when you don't need anything but "coverage"
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Georgia, United States
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Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 09:27 AM UTC
I have two at the present time, an Iwata HP-B, and an Iwata Revolution CR. I'd like to get a couple more, a cheap Pasche or Badger to shoot pigments and such through. Then sometime in the future an Iwata Custom Micron B for really fine detail work.
Mike
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Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 09:35 AM UTC
Two for me, an Aztec 470 for the dirty work and an Iwata Submicon for the rest! My fist airbrush was a Badger which was a present from my parents in the 70's I evetually replaced it with a Pasche, which I have since given to a friend.
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Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 01:39 PM UTC
hey
i am currently looking for a airbrush and i was looking on the lhs website and they have:
-badger 350
-vl paasche with hoses+
-testors a470 double action/intml.mix
-tamiya plus compressor
they also sell:
-delta
-iwata
-aztec
so i maybe able to oder one of those in.
which ones are the best
cheers
matt
Putrajaya, Malaysia
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Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 02:06 PM UTC
i got Aztek A470 and Tamiya Superfine. All were connected in parallel to each other....
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