Hey guys

Hey everyone I am new here and am just learning how to airbrush. I bought a beginners no name set off line just to see the different styles of brushes and try to get a feel for them and what ones I like. Any kind of advice is appreciated as I'm trying to learn and would like to get better at airbrushing. What paints do ppl recommend and what is the best way to mix them for better spray? Also I seam to having trouble with my bottom feed brush cutting out and spraying weird? Could it be that it was a cheep brush or more likely my paint mixing?? I am from pittsburgh thanks for any advice in advanced!!

Welcome to the forum,I live about 3 hours S.E. of you in W,V. and just so we can help you better it would help if you posted what the name of the airbrush is and if you have /don't have an art type bachground(H.School,art school ect. but you can get to that in a few min.Lol.
Most of the time the people use the paint that work's for them and is available where they live here's a few( Comart,Auto Air,Golden
,E-Tac and Createx just to name a few)all are available on-line or in some cases at your local hobby shop/ac moore and others.Mix your paint with reducer(store gotten or homemade) starting with 3 drops of reducer to 1 drop paint with air pressure between 15 and 30 psi works well most of the time (there are pratice sheet you can print from this forum)and how to's also that you can watch that show you what you need to know,other then that just ask on here and you will get help with whatever your having trouble with!

Welcome aboars Yeldarv. I am originally from pittsburg (go steelers). I have been using com-art and it ia pretty easy to work with. Let us know what you want to paint and you will find a plethera of help here

Welcome from Canada

Welcome from Australia!

Welcome from Philly! It's probably your brush as well as the way you mix it. Tell us what brush you have and paint you are using and we will be able to put you in the right direction.

welcome aboard its a great place to join

Welcome from Washington State

Thanks for the responses so far guys I will have to look and see if I can find a brand on the brushes but I don't remember seeing anything. 3 of them came in a kit I got off line pretty cheep just to start and I was also given a badger but it needs to be disassembled and cleaned as it is all gummed up and won't even spray.

HI from N. Wales.
Have a troll through the forums on here (or do a search), there has been loads written on your questions

welcome from "UK"

Hi Yeldarb welcome aboard. Your issues are possibly due to the cheap brush - you get what you pay for with ABing and those cheap ones are pretty hit and miss. Also the paint mix could be wrong, but there are no set rules for this as there are too many variables, the nozzle size of the gun, brand/colour of paint, psi used, what type of compressor - a tankless one will pulse and give an uneven spray for example,even weather conditions can affect the mix ratios. So if you can give more info, we may be able to be a bit more specific, but basically you want to reduce your paint until it's skimmed milk consistancy (though you can go much thinner depending on psi nozzle size) and the thinner the paint the lower psi you need. Also a lot of newbies have trouble getting brushes to spray well due to dirty nozzles. They can look clean as a whistle, but junk can still hide in those suckers.

It will be easier for people to recommend a paint if you can tell us what type of painting you would like to get into, automotive, fine art, textile for example, so shout out, loads of great peeps here happy to help.

Welcome to the forum Yeldarb! Ditto to the above... like Squishy said.

Welcome from Germany...

I am using model car paint I got at michaels craft store. It's testers( pretty sure I spelt that wrong) and I double checked there is no name on the brushes. I am trying to get to do automotive and purchased a few model cars to play on and try to get use to it all and see what I am capable of. After reading more on here and from the advice above I'm pretty sure I hade the paint mixed far to thick. I'm gonna try mixing up some thinner paint and seeing how it goes.

Thinner paint will definately help. But if it isn't airbrush specific paint then it's likely the pigment in the paint isn't fine enough, particularly if you have a small sized nozzle. Even airbrush paints that say they are ready to shoot straight from the bottle mean for a brush .5 or above generally, and if you want to use a lower psi, or smaller nozzle still have to reduce. So if you don't have any luck with thinning what you have, then try another paint (but not the basic createx paint, that is commonly bought by newbies, but is only good for bigger nozzles at higher pressure and primarly for fabrics.)

Thanks squishy actually I just read your post and I tried using createx last night as it came in the kit I bought. And it actually sprayed a lot better then the paint I had previously used and sprayed. I had to use like almost 40psi and the nozzles on the brushes are .5 I found out I am going to try thinning more paint and see how it works on round 2 and try to get the hang of it thanks for the help

Welcome from Germany you come to the right place for learning