Who knows anything about airbrushes? I have a paint spraying set-up for larger stuff (bikes mostly, though I did my whole van last year) with a full size spraygun and a smaller touch-up gun but have never used an airbrush at all. However, I often need to do very small touch-ups especially on stuff like frame paint scratches and chips, as well as on nice old bicycles that I seem to keep accumulating, so I'd like to try an airbrush for these instead of my current brush method. I could also use it for detail work like striping too. I've been looking around online & youtube videos, and am probably more confused now than before I started.
It would be likely to be used with several sorts of automotive paint, primers, 1k colours, 2k clears, and more, also it would be used on round tube so needs to work consistently at all sorts of angles (which youtube vids etc don't seem to cover much). I have a substantial compressor and regulator so plenty of air at whatever pressure, and I gather I can get a connector to go down from standard 1/4" compressor fittings to airbrush size (1/8" I think). So that side of things is covered.
Any suggestions for the airbrush itself? Single or double action? Siphon or gravity feed? What size nozzles for automotive paint? Any airbrush brands that people have found are good to use/easy to get extras & spares for/easy to clean/ etc.? I may as well get something reasonable quality that should last a decent while. It looks like I can spend anything from 10 -200 on one without much clue as to which would be worth having.
Finally, how do you go about mixing small quantities of paint? Some of the paints nowadays need pretty accurate mixing of 2 or 3 components, it's not too hard to do that when mixing bigger amounts but when there's only an ounce or so needed it seems difficult.
Thanks in advance
