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I want buy a micron airbrush,but I do not know which I should to buy
First,I want ask is difference between the CM-C and CM-CP is one have Micro Air Control Valve? My mean is other things like spary, line thin is the same? I am not sure is the MAC is easy broken or not, when I use ps270, it broken lead the airbrush can use.
Secondly, I want ask is the difference between the CM-B and CM-SB is one is side cup?
Hope someone can give me some idea. Thank you very mnuch
 
OK, so a few other questions first... who are you, where are you, what do you paint, have you painted before, what do you want to do? Best bet is pop along to the introductions section and say Hi. Here is a link to help. http://www.airbrushforum.org/introductions/

Look at the information on the Iwata website will tell you what the differences are and should answer both questions.
 
The valve on the C+ is not worth the extra money. Get an inline one. The way the cup on the C is designed makes for a very big cavity in the body. You either need quite a bit of paint or you need to work with the gun pointing down. Otherwise they are the same.

The CM-B has the small top cup and the SB is the side feed. Both of these has 0.18 nozzles compared to the 0.23 of the C and C+. The SB is also quite a bit shorter than the others in the line. The nice thing about the SB is that if you have multiple cups, you can quickly switch between colours.
 
I'd add, just my opinion though:) SB is the one siphon micron. And works best for me. Very convenient to hold while painting, it means a lot. Generally, I don't like gravity airbrushes for their inconvenient cups and brain exploding with the proper reduction of the paint, siphons are much better with it.
If there's a need to load micron with relatively big amount of paint, one can change side cup for the bottle. There are also gravity cups of different volume for any Iwata SB models. So one can chose different volume of paint to load.

MAC valve makes airbrush body a bit longer, what brings more inconvenience over painting besides the cup of C+, I mean less control. SB has the shortest body which has more control over the AB.
 
What you want to do with it, will help you decide. For example if you want to use larger amounts of paint you want a larger cup, side buckets can help with lots of colour changes, but will it be comfortable to use (personally I don't like the balance)

I chose the cm-c because I liked the option of more paint with the larger cup, but also has a channel in the bottom for tiny amounts so very versatile, and the .23 nozzle is capable of the same fine lines but is a little less fussy about paint reduction than the .18, and because I didn't want a built in mac valve. I use an inline one, then if it should go wrong I can still use the brush, plus I prefer to have it under the brush for a comfy grip. Plus it had the best price (which I dropped lots of hints about to my lovely family who got it for me :) )

So think about which brush is going to suit what you want to do, how you like to paint, and hold the brush.
 
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Would depend what you use the gun for really? As in big paint load?? Funny angles?? Etc
I am not sure what you talk about, English is not my first language, I want buy a airbrush for detail now, and not sure which micron I should buy
 
What you want to do with it, will help you decide. For example if you want to use larger amounts of paint you want a larger cup, side buckets can help with lots of colour changes, but will it be comfortable to use (personally I don't like the balance)

I chose the cm-c because I liked the option of more paint with the larger cup, but also has a channel in the bottom for tiny amounts so very versatile, and the .23 nozzle is capable of the same fine lines but is a little less fussy about paint reduction than the .18, and because I didn't want a built in mac valve. I use an inline one, then if it should go wrong I can still use the brush, plus I prefer to have it under the brush for a comfy grip. Plus it had the best price (which I dropped lots of hints about to my lovely family who got it for me :) )

So think about which brush is going to suit what you want to go, how you like to paint, and hold the brush.
I think the CM-C is best for me now, Thank you very much.
 
OK, so a few other questions first... who are you, where are you, what do you paint, have you painted before, what do you want to do? Best bet is pop along to the introductions section and say Hi. Here is a link to help. http://www.airbrushforum.org/introductions/

Look at the information on the Iwata website will tell you what the differences are and should answer both questions.
I finish it !
 
I am not sure what you talk about, English is not my first language, I want buy a airbrush for detail now, and not sure which micron I should buy
Are just painting canvas or vehicles?? The SB can work upside down which is a massive selling point!! I own all the Microns except the B and they all are excellent, I love the C+ and the SB and the Kustom! If it's small detail work on Illustration board my personal Preference would be the SB but others don't like it!!
 
Are just painting canvas or vehicles?? The SB can work upside down which is a massive selling point!! I own all the Microns except the B and they all are excellent, I love the C+ and the SB and the Kustom! If it's small detail work on Illustration board my personal Preference would be the SB but others don't like it!!
I paint on car. I want a airbrush can spary good and also for good for detail, can you give me some ideas why B is not good?
 
For illustration, I use two CM-SBs. I like having the color cup on the side. It's out out your eye line, out of the way of your finger, and fast and easy to switch colors and clean.
You can use the plastic color cups from Aztec, too, which are cheap, come is a variety of sizes, and are easy to clean. They do break eventually, but only cost a few bucks to replace.

The CM-C+ or Kustom CM-C+ are great for automotive work, especially solvent based paints. The solvent based paints I've used seemed to prefer the .23 tip CM-C+ over the finer tipped CM-B or CM-SB.

Long opinion short, the CM-SB is my favorite airbrush for detail. The two I have are the first airbrushes I reach for on any project. An Olympos MP200-C micron is usually #3.
 
Bro- I am telling you IWATA MICRON SUCK!!! Compared to olympos I own both!!!!
 
We don't bad mouth Iwata airbrush's because they are a great airbrush,might not be for what you do? and yes the olympos brush's are good too as are the badger's some people even like the master's airbrush everyone has an opinion on there ,but most of the time its not the airbrush Imo.
 
Bro- IWATA CAN KISS MY YOU KNOW WHAT FOR SELLING AIRBRUSHES FOR $ 500-700. I have been tattoo artist over a decade- artist of many forms- hobby man! Iwata not as responsive period.
 
We don't bad mouth Iwata airbrush's because they are a great airbrush,might not be for what you do? and yes the olympos brush's are good too as are the badger's some people even like the master's airbrush everyone has an opinion on there ,but most of the time its not the airbrush Imo.

I think this guy is a plant. seems weird logging on just to trash Iwata, that's just my viewo_O
 
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