Based on personal experience (as noted previously), I gotta strongly disagree with the above. In my personal experience Paasche's rep as a quality brush maker is very "emperor's new clothes", and IMO when people recommend them, it's either:
1) They won the QC lottery with the specific brush they got, and don't realize it was a lottery to begin with
2) They've only ever used Paasche's, and so don't have frame of reference
3) They have very low standards, and think standards any higher than their own are not worth dignifying
4) They're so uber-highly skilled that all brushes are effectively the same in their hands, rendering them (ironically) unable to parse differences in quality that would make or break things for a mere mortal or beginner.
#4 is held up as an ideal by the sentiment "it's not the brush, but the hand who wields it". While this is (half) true in the the upper echelons of skill, and very empowering to say/think, it's actually anti-helpful to a beginner. Some models physically cannot do certain things, no matter how skilled the user is. Some models will have real, practical downsides compared to others. Telling someone that they can ultimately do anything with any brush muddies the waters when it comes to choice, and can screw them up badly by encouraging them to buy or stick with something that will crush instead of streamline their experience.
I have two Paasche brushes. If you count the two Talons I bought and returned due to appalling manufacturing defects, I've owned 4. The VL looks nice, but has rubbish atomization, cleaning issues, overspray issues, and cannot do lines nearly as fine or as clean as my Iwatas or badgers. It's okay if you're doing quick 'n dirty T-shirts at a fair, or painting a wizard on the side of some stoner kid's van for 50 bucks (see #3 above). For anything needing better atomization or precision, or even just ease of cleaning, it's a terrible choice. I say that from bitter personal experience.
The Talon is a cheap toy on par with a Harbor Freight brush. The two I received were physically unusable, but even if they weren't, the build quality was significantly chintzier than even the VL, far less my later Iwata's.
I wasted years of my life on Paasche due to a case of #2. When I got my Eclipse , the difference was astonishing. When I say I was doing things with ease in my first session with the Eclipse that I'd struggled in vain for years to get my VL to do, that isn't hyperbole. That is literally what happened, that is how big the difference actually is/was. I had no idea airbrushes could even be that good, due to years of people feeding me Kool-aid about Paasche being quality. I thought that crap I'd been going through was just inherent to all airbrushing.
That's the exact kind of experience people warn about with the cheap Chinese brushes.... with and allegedly upstanding brand.
To the OP: Don't let anyone sell you on bad hardware by convincing you that if you you stick with it long enough you'll eventually learn how to make it work. It might be technically true, but it sure as hell isn't worth it when another brush could have you at the same place in a tiny fraction of the time with a tiny fraction of the fuss. Quality makes a difference.