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Today I tested out my new and expensive Harder & Steenbeck Evolution silverline 2 in 1, this is an unbelievably beautiful piece of kit and it looks so cool sitting in it's box, BUT, unfortunately that is where the excitement stops.
I decided to test the Evo together with the Neo for Iwata, doing the same tasks with both.
Firstly to compare the 2;
The Neo for Iwata
This airbrush although butch in appearance performed well straight out of the box, the only modification I made was to change the back piece to incorporate needle distance restriction, other than that it is as was supplied, the Neo has 2 cups which are both highly polished inside as well as outside, this makes them easy to clean, simply running the cup under water the paint just falls off, the trigger action is very responsive but firm, as I said in another thread I was delighted with it's performance and ease of use, had I paid twice as much for it I would still have been pleased.
H&S Evolution
Beautiful in appearance, this airbrush did not perform at all well, the trigger must be more than half way open before any paint will show, when the paint does come out it blasts to start with then almost immediately starts to clog, trying to paint fine lines is a task in it's self, all lines were constantly breaking up and it was impossible to get any kind of consistency, this was also supplied with 2 cups, both of which are highly polished, but only on the outside, the inside of the cups are rough to the touch and are so bad that even after cleaning the inside of the cup I used for the test is dyed with the colour I used (dark grey).
Another giant minus with this airbrush is that the trigger is further back than any other airbrush making it front heavy and really uncomfortable in the hand, it does not feel good at all.
I'm totally disappointed with this airbrush and if I had to give it marks out of ten it would have to be minus ten, an absolute waste of money which I don't have, there are lots situations where I just want to curse and this is top of the list.
Her below is a photo of the simple tests I did, I wanted to see how small and fine I could get and still be able show some detail, the quality of the work is not important here but I simply wanted to try lines and hairs, both airbrushes are using the same paint (Schminke aero colour dark grey) the paint is pre thinned therefore straight out of the bottle, the paint is also new so no particles that shouldn't be there.
In the photo the eye you see is 6cm corner to corner to give you an idea of how small the neo can get and still show detail, as you can see I gave up with the Evo doing the same eye, you can also see that the lines and hairs on the small paint brushes are more consistent with the Neo.
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Note here the "V" in evo is the result of an unwanted sudden blast, the outside of the iris on the eye left was built up, but the other was done in one go due to control difficulty with the Evo.
My conclusion, although I still have every faith in German technology, I don't ever need to see another H&S airbrush, I shall sell this airbrush to someone I don't like as an alternative to murder, that would certainly be worse.
I will say if your looking for something to just look nice in the box, then this is the one.
One last final note: My $40 Black Bull airbrushes even now perform better than this piece of scrap iron.
I decided to test the Evo together with the Neo for Iwata, doing the same tasks with both.
Firstly to compare the 2;
The Neo for Iwata
This airbrush although butch in appearance performed well straight out of the box, the only modification I made was to change the back piece to incorporate needle distance restriction, other than that it is as was supplied, the Neo has 2 cups which are both highly polished inside as well as outside, this makes them easy to clean, simply running the cup under water the paint just falls off, the trigger action is very responsive but firm, as I said in another thread I was delighted with it's performance and ease of use, had I paid twice as much for it I would still have been pleased.
H&S Evolution
Beautiful in appearance, this airbrush did not perform at all well, the trigger must be more than half way open before any paint will show, when the paint does come out it blasts to start with then almost immediately starts to clog, trying to paint fine lines is a task in it's self, all lines were constantly breaking up and it was impossible to get any kind of consistency, this was also supplied with 2 cups, both of which are highly polished, but only on the outside, the inside of the cups are rough to the touch and are so bad that even after cleaning the inside of the cup I used for the test is dyed with the colour I used (dark grey).
Another giant minus with this airbrush is that the trigger is further back than any other airbrush making it front heavy and really uncomfortable in the hand, it does not feel good at all.
I'm totally disappointed with this airbrush and if I had to give it marks out of ten it would have to be minus ten, an absolute waste of money which I don't have, there are lots situations where I just want to curse and this is top of the list.
Her below is a photo of the simple tests I did, I wanted to see how small and fine I could get and still be able show some detail, the quality of the work is not important here but I simply wanted to try lines and hairs, both airbrushes are using the same paint (Schminke aero colour dark grey) the paint is pre thinned therefore straight out of the bottle, the paint is also new so no particles that shouldn't be there.
In the photo the eye you see is 6cm corner to corner to give you an idea of how small the neo can get and still show detail, as you can see I gave up with the Evo doing the same eye, you can also see that the lines and hairs on the small paint brushes are more consistent with the Neo.
View attachment 2712
Note here the "V" in evo is the result of an unwanted sudden blast, the outside of the iris on the eye left was built up, but the other was done in one go due to control difficulty with the Evo.
My conclusion, although I still have every faith in German technology, I don't ever need to see another H&S airbrush, I shall sell this airbrush to someone I don't like as an alternative to murder, that would certainly be worse.
I will say if your looking for something to just look nice in the box, then this is the one.
One last final note: My $40 Black Bull airbrushes even now perform better than this piece of scrap iron.