size wise, it looks like this: About the size of a set of headphones, and a bit smaller than my foot.
noise wise: its about the same as a regular room cooling fan turned up to the highest setting. I wouldnt use it in the same room as someone watching TV or sleeping, but I do use it in the back room while the missus watches TV in the front room, and she says she cant hear it at all.
weight wise: 3.5kg, says my bathroom scales. Which, incidentally, is about what I reckon they weigh, too.
Re: canned air: DO NOT BUY CANNED AIR. IT IS SHIT!
sorry for the strong language, but if anything necessitates an obscenity it is canned air. The stuff is worse than useless. Here's why:
as you use canned air, it gets cold. After about 30 seconds of spray, it has ice on it. Yes, that cold. After about 40 seconds, you cant touch the can anymore. As it gets colder, it loses pressure (dis is basic science stuff.). After the aforementioned 30~40 seconds, air flow has slowed to a trickle. It certainly no longer sprays your paint. In fact, it probably stopped doing so 20 seconds ago. Now your brush is clogged because the paint dried in the nozzle.
Commence disassembly of airbrush. Spend next 5 mins washing it manually with airbrush cleaner cos you cant pump it through properly (can is still too cold). waste a lot of paint. waste a lot of time. waste a lot of airbrush cleaner.
wait a further 10 mins for the can to warm up again.
repeat.
Using canned air is an exercise in frustration. Quite aside from that, basic airbrush technique requires you to have control over the air pressure. This is NOT controlled by the trigger on the brush. It is controlled by the air flow valve on your compressor. Air cans do not have one of these. Thus, you cannot control the pressure. Thus, you cannot paint any line finer than the hull of a rhino.
Do not use canned air. I didnt have anyone to tell me anything about using airbrushes, and i used canned air for months. wasted a huuuuuge amount of money on it, and got so frustrated at being unable to even base coat a tank (after months of trial and error!) that i almost packed in airbrushing completely.
Then I spoke to badruck and discovered that he had had NONE of the problems id had. I enquired as to why that mightve been. Eventually we ascertained that he had a compressor (clearly his wife is a smarter cookie than I am...).
I bought a compressor.
and all was happiness...
why can't airbrushing be more affordable/economic/user friendly.
