I own iwata airbrushes an hp c and cm sb, and harder and steenbeck evo cr plus and satagraph 1,2 and satagraph 3 foose edition which were made by harder and steenbeck, the satagraph 2 was made by gabbert, I will say all my german airbrushes NEVER give me a problem my japanese airbrushes iwata, holbein, meiji, olympos, they can get finicky, I find with my german brushes I put water or redusor in, then paint, and I'm off to jam, my japanese brushes I have to play with them a little bit but when they are good, they boogy all day, I like the h & s trigger, yes it was hard at first but now I'm use to it, but I think my favorite is the double dependent airbrushes like the sata 2 and hansa, grafo, etc, I'm not a machinist but I work at a body shop, so I to have access to tools and other goods, but for me I like a stiff trigger, every airbrush I have is paired up with my right hand, so basically what I'm saying is, give me a Chinese knock off, an iwata, a harder and steenbeck or whichever, it will not end up the same way as when I first got it, I'll tweak it caress it, play with it, love it, until I get it just right, me I prefer a heavy brush, I made my iwata cm sb a little heavier actually, but anyway I didn't mean to say all of this, but It just came to my intention about this article about iwata buying harder and steenbeck, and I only got one word #derp.... check this out fellas, I read up on airbrushes every day from the first day I started, like my guitars hanging on the wall, when I'm passionate about something, I need to know everything, now someone commented on new airbrushes looking like iwata, and yes what I have noticed is this company airtex, you can see their xp825 premium on foxy studios, it's exclusive and all the talk about it is because of its 4 hole design in the head for blah blah blah better atomization , well first that's true I'm sure it sprays sweeter than a pair of boobs, but that design came out a long time ago, binks did it with their raven airbrush, I have one and can show you, but for some reason I can't post pictures, (there's that #derp again), AND this company airtex has ANOTHER airbrush called the Selphy also on foxy studios website, it's exclusive because of this "free" double action trigger, AND this design was ALSO DONE in the past and was an holding brand airbrush, not a lot of info on it, but I do have a picture on my phone to show you guys when I ever figure it out (#derp) , I'm sorry about saying alot, my fiance is at work, Im waiting for my paint to dry a little so I can erase and go back to airbrushing, so I have you guys.....look at me go
So in conclusion:
German airbrushes are different by japanese brushes in every way I feel, to spray pattern to weight to trigger, to design to air flow, everything, but it doesn't matter if you get an eclipse or an ultra, you will tweek that lil sucker and it will be not an airbrush any more but yours (insert name here), so in a way if your favorite airbrush was let's say a satagraph 3, cause that's my favorite, I love the way it feels sprays, etc, ok even on my japanese brushes I tweek all my brushes to make them feel as close I possibly can like my sata, so if I have 18 airbrushes (I think that's correct may be more) so regardless of name it's like I have 18 satagraph 3s, this is all my opinion, I may be wrong or right who knows, but also!!!
In conclusion #2:
Airtex is not making inavating airbrushes I believe because they were out before, again my opinion and an observation