I was on ebay looking for an airbrush and found a seller that has a website so I checked it out. It is Airbrush City Inc. I checked out thier gravity feed airbrushes and they are all $49.99 Please check out the site and tell me what you think.
http://airbrushcity.com/abk1/
Check out the GD-100, GD-102 and #200 thaey are the specific ones I am talking about.
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If you are just starting out, buy an Aztek. they may not be the brightest star in the universe, but they are reliable if you keep em clean, versatile and cheep. I own damn near every kind of airbrush known to man, but for jobs far more complex than you will attempt, I often grab the Aztek first.
Now, a lot of folks will come in here with expert opinion, and long dialogs about who makes the best brushes, and why they use a certain type, but for the buck and versatility when starting out, it is hard to beat one. After you master the Aztek, you may want to spring a car payment for a good brush, but frankly, for most taxidermy applications, they are like putting pearls on a pig.
If you call buying a $49.99 airbrush that looks to be pretty good quality over a $70 - $100 airbrush that looks to be made primarily out of plastic putting pearls on a pig the so be it. I would rather spend $20-$50 less to buy a better product. I was just trying to find out what you guys thought of the ones I mentioned and which would be best for the taxidermy applications. I am 90% sure I want one of the airbrush city airbrushes but I still need to decide which one and if they will work properly.
I am waiting with much excitement to go to taxidermy school in the spring. I want to get a little edge by learning some of the skills I will need for taxidermy without actuallt mounting an animal. I just don't want to pick up ant bad mounting habits from doing a crappy mount and getting bad instructions. I just figured airbrushing fish, beak, and other color schemes on paper would be a better way to pick up some skill.
you just got some real good advice,you mit rethink why you know more.
I use an Aztek 90% of the time but i only paint 40 fish a year.
You got me all wrong. I do not claim to know it all about airbrushes. Maybe aztec are good but I wanted to know if anyone thought the other ones were good as well. I didn't want to spen any more than necesary for the time being. Maybe upgrade at a finacially better time. I was being a smart a$$ in my last post. I am sorry if I offended anyone, that was not my intention.
The Chinese have a saying, translated it means that if something looks the same it is the same. the airbrushes you mentioned are chinese knock-offs of Iwata guns. The are not the same. The innards of some of those toys look like they were built by a drunk man using a sledge hammer and a railroad spike to shape them.
The Aztek may be plastic, but you can stomp it, drop it, and kick it and it keeps on spitting. It is the Timex of paintbrushes, but I do museum quality work with them day in and day out. the fast change tips and the light weight have bonus points in my ledger.
You asked my opinion and you got it. Let me leave you with this, son, when you ask a question, wait for the answer. when you get the answer, don't attack it with rhetoric. If you wanted someone to confirm your decision, you should have said that in the first place. An Iwata that looks like an Iwata but is 1/3 the price is not an Iwata.
I wouldn't equip you with a .410 to go goose hunting, and I wouldn't want you to start out with an ersatz copy of a copy of a good airbrush, either.
That is the kind of answer I wanted, I guess. I was not trying to atack you I was only trying to get the right answer that I probably should have waited for. I wanted your opinion of the airbrush city's product. I don't think I will go with them if they are not the kind of quality I am looking for. I guess I already had a bad opinion of the aztek because I bought a single action testors airbrush from wal-mart about 10 years ago and I hated it. They must have improved on thier product alot or I just got the junk one back then. I will look into the paasche singles and the azteks a bit more and make my decision based on what I see and what the pros say. Again I thank you for your input.
I just started taxidermy two months ago and my first fish was an atlantic croaker its turned out really great and i used an Iwata Rvoultion Double actiob Bottom feed it seemed really great and cleaned easily. It seemed great but i dont have anything to compare it to so dont trust me fully, but are iwatas good airbrushes? It was pretty exspensive.