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VoltageArt
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I pretty much figured at this point it was a manufacturing dud, but the only reason I even have a master airbrush is because it came with the air compressor I bought for my 180, and the compresses itself works fantastic. So I am returning the $80 kit and just buying the compressor without the airbrush which Amazon has one for $68 which would give me back $12 to add to my budget for Airbrush paint.
And I have a Michaels and a Hobby Lobby in town but their are no Aaron Brothers in my state. I will look into the Aztek because I have seen those at Michaels and I have used Testors airbrush paint before with a cheap $20 airbrush set I bought for for fun that came with 5 things of paint. And I know the pint will work on what I am doing because I tested the brush and paint on a ugly Transformers Energon Smokescreen figure I have who's missing both his arms, legs and 2 of his tires, and the paint worked really well sticking to the hard plastic. (so now he has a bright orange hood with blue, red and yellow stripes )
But one issues I have, is all the lids have sealed on to the bottles and I have been having a very hard time getting them off. And the only colors included in the kit are Black, Blue, Red, Orange, and Yellow, so unless I really want to paint Optimus Prime form the movies or just making Smokescreen even uglier, then I really don't have much to work with in terms of colors. and the bottles are only 1/4th FL oz so their is not much paint for mixing and trial and error. And my cat knocking over and spilling most of the blue on to the floor didn't help either (had to clean blue paw prints of the floor, my book, and the kitchen table... was not fun.)
And I will certainly keep my eye open for a Badger. I have heard a lot of good things about them and my Grandfather had an OLD one but its missing a lot of pieces and it would cost more to replace the parts then to buy a new one, but for now my 180 works just fine for practicing and just getting the hang of using an airbrush.
And I have a Michaels and a Hobby Lobby in town but their are no Aaron Brothers in my state. I will look into the Aztek because I have seen those at Michaels and I have used Testors airbrush paint before with a cheap $20 airbrush set I bought for for fun that came with 5 things of paint. And I know the pint will work on what I am doing because I tested the brush and paint on a ugly Transformers Energon Smokescreen figure I have who's missing both his arms, legs and 2 of his tires, and the paint worked really well sticking to the hard plastic. (so now he has a bright orange hood with blue, red and yellow stripes )
But one issues I have, is all the lids have sealed on to the bottles and I have been having a very hard time getting them off. And the only colors included in the kit are Black, Blue, Red, Orange, and Yellow, so unless I really want to paint Optimus Prime form the movies or just making Smokescreen even uglier, then I really don't have much to work with in terms of colors. and the bottles are only 1/4th FL oz so their is not much paint for mixing and trial and error. And my cat knocking over and spilling most of the blue on to the floor didn't help either (had to clean blue paw prints of the floor, my book, and the kitchen table... was not fun.)
And I will certainly keep my eye open for a Badger. I have heard a lot of good things about them and my Grandfather had an OLD one but its missing a lot of pieces and it would cost more to replace the parts then to buy a new one, but for now my 180 works just fine for practicing and just getting the hang of using an airbrush.