I've been looking at airbrushes online. I am concerned about the Gravity Feed brushes that have the cup permanently attached to the top of the airbrush. I took an airbrush class in college 21 years ago (I cringe when I think it has been that long ago.. I'm getting old..). Anyway, I had to use those Gravity Feed airbrushes with a rather large cup fixed at the top of them. As I remember, it seemed that the big cup would block my view, when trying to look at what I was spraying, making it difficult to do fine detail work. I was using the brush to do illustration work in the class, not painting models.

Wouldn't a side feed airbrush, that you can plug various sized cups into, be a better option than a fixed one-size cup on top?

The airbrush below only comes with a .2mm needle though and that is probably too small for base coats on a tank. They have another airbrush that comes with .2mm, .3mm, and .5mm needles but it has that fixed cup on top of the brush..

[link]http://www.tcpglobal.com/airbrushdepot/sb82detail.html[/link]

Iwata equivolent that comes with a .35mm needle:

[link]http://www.tcpglobal.com/airbrushdepot/itemdetail.aspx?itemno=IWA+4205[/link]


Anyone, including BiggTony, have any comments about this?

Also, what size cup would be needed to hold enough paint to spray a complete base coat on a 1/16 Tiger 1? I have no idea how many ounces would be needed to cover a Tiger..