A lot of people complain about the Aztec because it looks like a cheap plastic toy. I have 5 or 6 airbrushes - some of them were WAY expensive. My worst is a badger 150 that spits no matter what. It spits paint that any of my other airbrushes will spray smoothly with no problem. More thinner, less thinner, plain water, nothing makes a difference. Needless to say, the badger doesn't get used.

The Aztec on the other hand is my most used airbrush. It's very easy to clean and unless you need extremely fine lines - like weathered panel lines on a 1/72 model plane, then it will do almost anything a modeler needs an airbrush to do.

The body of mine died after about 5 years of heavy use and per their warranty I received a new body for free no questions asked.

Anyway, there are a lot of good airbrushes out there, but if you spend a lot of money on one and you're not an airbrush artist making the big bucks then you're buying way more airbrush than you need.

I have a page on my site that discusses them in more detail.

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