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i find i mostly use my (newly acquired and not quite comfortable with yet) airbrush for detail parts like spraying paint on tubular chassis etc, where with a spray can you cant really get a thin even coat on something intricate like that. but for most bodies i still use the rattlecan especially tamiya. its not a problem; its more like the appropriate method for what youre trying to achieve.

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Like you, I have an airbrush but find myself using the rattle cans. When I built military stuff I used the airbrush a lot for camo jobs but for cars I just find rattle cans more convienent. And yes, I guess I am lazy.

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I am kind of addicted to my AB. I prefer it to hand painting or spray cans, although I also use both. In order: AB, can, hand. I probably use it even when it's not necessary and paint one or two small parts - wasting time and thinner to clean - but, as I said, I really like using it.

I am about 50/50 AB/cans on large parts like bodies, though.

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When I get the paint out of a rattle can and use it in my air brush I sometimes ask myself, " Is this is crazy or what?" I feel I get way,way better results with the airbrush. I can get in all the cracks and crevasses. I have found that the easiest way to clean it now is put all the parts, (4, I have a Paasche single action), in a glass baby food jar with cheap lacquer thinner, shake it around, then wipe them clean, takes about 5 minutes. I use mostly Testors enamels now thinned with cheep lacquer thinner with great results. Picked that tip up off of here via Dr. Cranky and Don Yost. Love it!!!!!

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Rattle cans for primer, undercoat, sometimes colour coat & sometimes clear.

Airbrush for alclad (including the black undercoat), custom colour mixes, candies, fades & fancy paint effects, 2 pack clear and it i'm putting bling into the clear.

I resisted getting an airbrush thinking i'd find the cleaning a chore but that's not the case. I'm fairly slack with the cleaning (doing only the minimum) but the only time it's clogged was due to a spider setting up home inside the tip!

And yes, thanks Don for the GP thinners with enamels tip. I now get good glossy black undercoats for alclad every time. Woohoo!

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I do own two air brushes (one a gift, the other won at a contest) and haven't used them in years. I do mainly light commercial and weathered models so I'm not concerned about mirror finishes. I use mostly automotive paint like Duplicolor in rattle cans. I get the finish I'm looking for and will spray the smallest parts, seldom brush painting anything.

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I am kind of addicted to my AB. I prefer it to hand painting or spray cans, although I also use both. In order: AB, can, hand. I probably use it even when it's not necessary and paint one or two small parts - wasting time and thinner to clean - but, as I said, I really like using it.

I am about 50/50 AB/cans on large parts like bodies, though.

. Pretty much. Hate brush painting with a passion. An evvvvverything. Engines, suspensions, frames and bodies. Though for bodies and floors I use my half pint touch up gun for the wider spray pattern
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