Master Airbrush Multi-Purpose Airbrushing System Kit with Portable Mini Air Compressor - Gravity Feed Dual-Action Airbrush, Hose, How-To-Airbrush Guide Booklet - Hobby, Craft, Cake Decorating, Tattoo

I was looking for an affordable airbrush/compressor combination and took a chance on this due to budget constraints and balancing out the good and bad reviews. I build mainly sci-fi based models and some plastic ships so I need something to apply primer and paint larger areas.The package arrived today in very good condition. I immediately read all instructions.Compressor notes:The compressor booklet is definitely a translated version, but not difficult to go through if you have had at least an 8th grade education (side note, I do not understand why people complain about translations. How many of you can translate something into another language?). The compressor does make a little noise, but then I was not expecting total silence. If you have other people in the house it will not bother them at all. The pressure knob is easy to adjust. Hose connected just great with no need for Teflon. I ran the compressor for 30 minutes unconnected to the airbrush. It did not stop or overheat.Airbrush notes:The airbrush is a basic model and will do what I need for simple primer application and painting wider areas. The booklet that came with it is very good. It has excellent notes on how to care for it and a detail diagram of all parts. I removed the quick connector that was supplied and connected it to the hose (again no need for Teflon) and turned on the compressor. The compressor worked as it should and only came on when I pushed in the trigger on the airbrush. The trigger moves smoothly. It has a good balance and sits in the cradle on the compressor just fine. I have not tried painting yet, but the air stream on my hand was tight when held close and broadened as I took it slowly away. The key to making any airbrush work properly is good cleaning habits and paint/thinner mixture. I will post my results on the airbrush later.My overall finding is this is going to be a great addition to my model making tools. The price is great even if all I got was the compressor.******UPDATE******11/28/2018I have now used this for actual painting. Before I put paint in the reservoir, I filled it up with a homemade cleaning solution and engaged the airbrush onto a paper towel. The cleaner came out in different spray patterns based on distance from the paper towel. After the reservoir was empty it was time to paint. I tried two different types of thinner;homemade and Valejos Air Brush thinner. I found the Valejo thinner worked best. Just add a drop or two in the reservoir with 3 to 4 drops of paint. Stir it up and go. The brush works perfectly. When I was done with the one color I added my homemade cleaner to the reservoir and sprayed into my cleaning pot. I did this about 3 times to get all the color cleared out and then added another color and thinner. Going from one color to another was not difficult.So the final conclusion is this is a great airbrush for general use. I will be using it to paint plastic models. The key is to keep it clean at all times and not take shortcuts.

Great, just great! Really helps out in auto scale modeling. Makes a huge difference in the quality of the paint finishing on model car parts. I am new to airbrushing this is my first airbrush so I cant compare this to the 200+ dollar units. But I can tell you at this low price you absolutely can not loose. 75% of the cost is the actual airbrush not the compressor which is why the low price point. The compressor works great and its somewhat quiet, it has a pressure adjustment but no indication of PSI. I read some reviewers say the compressor falls over when running do to its awkward stance. I have no issues with that, I set it on top of the desk and it stays upright. The air hose is plenty long enough and feels like good quality. Taking it apart to clean is fairly easy with common sense. I use Tamiya acrylic paint and simple Windex and water cleans perfect. Windex is a wonder product. Not only will Windex clean glass & desks, you can use it for more things than I can list. Windex will absolutely dissolve solvent based acrylic paint which makes it perfect. I saw some how to videos and more than a handful of people say that windez works great for cleaning and they are correct. Acrylic model paint is actually solvent based so water alone does not exactly clean all that well, but Windex does even with out elbow grease. Spray windex in the empty paint stained cup and run that through the air brush then rinse out with water and then throughly dry then put the next color in for painting that simple. I use thinner with my paints as I have seen that most recommend doing that. I use Tamiya paint and use their thinner for acrylic and do two parts paint and one part thinner. So use a glass dropper / eye dropper and drop lets say 10 drops paint to 5 drops thinner and then do the math like that for more paint, good ratio. I also use isopropyl alcohol to help clean before I store it. Now will this last forever not sure but for me it probably will. Well worth the low price point, even if it fails in a few years you absolutely will not be throwing money away! The brush alone is worth the money and that will last for a lifetime i would think. The compressor will probably be the week point in the future but the brush will still be good. You can get a high end compressor and still use the brush.