Hey Guys! I have or have had several airbrushes. I´m kinda fan of airbrushes and once, I would like to have many of them, let´s say a collection. But of course, I also use them for my painting!
Now I have bought an airbrush from Tamiya - well, to be correct: "Tamiya airbrush system spray-work HG airbrush III super fine", how the box says - and I would like to share my opinions on this nice airbrush with you. The rumour is (is it a rumour, though?), that this airbrush is being made by the same factory that makes airbrushes for Iwata, and with the same standarts. And after I´ve inspected the airbrush, I cannot say, that anything proved otherwise.
It is a gravity feed, double action, 0,2mm nozzle (super fine) airbrush. It comes in a paper box with window (the window is covered by plastic) and very nice, detailed instructions. The same airbrush is produced by Tamiya with 0,3mm nozzle and Tamiya also produces very similar one with different - built in and smaller - cup.
As you can see that it has nice shiny crome finish and all the tweaks you expect from a good airbrush. There is adjustment for trigger resistance, "stop screw" on the end of the airbrush for better control, there is cover for cup.
The trigger has nice surface, goes smoothly and lineary down and back with nice feeling and exactly the amount of resistance I like. As I said, the resistance can be trimed.
The cup for paint is kinda large and can surely contain a lot of paint. Of course, this is a 0,2mm nozzle airbrush, thus a tool for precise work and I really don´t see the need for cup so large, but hey, it is what it is. The cup is removable and sealed with rubber ring. There is a top cover for the cup which I like (no paint splashing out) but either find unnecesary for my use, because I rarely have more than a few drops of paint in my detail airbrushes (for me, this is a detail brush, not base layering tool for large surfaces). You can notice the long "neck" between the cup and body.
As you can see, the feeding "hole" is narrow and long. But in my experience, that´s not a problem , because I prepare my paints outside the airbrush and pour in the finalized thinned paint. If you don´t do that, I can sense some trouble with mixing paint inside this airbrush. Thou so far I have no problems cleaning it with airbrush cleaners, water and small old "utility" brush.
As you can see, airbrush is typical, nothing special here. I can say, that the brush has very nice feeling - it is very well crafted, the threads are tight and precise, trimering is soft and precise. The needle and all the threads are lubricated from factory. The nozzle is removable by the little tool you can see in top right corner. The nozzle is also lubricated and its thread/screw is filled with some kind of sealing matter. So far I had no need to remove the nozzle, the brush is easily cleaned with the nozzle on.
When you pick the airbrush in your hand, it is one of the heavier ones. I would compare the weight with Badger model 100 series. My Evolution AL Plus is much much lighter (obviously), Hansa 281/381 feels little bit lighter too. The airbrush is balanced well - the center of mass is where the air source connector is - well, the exact centre is in the first half of the connector, so technicaly, the airbrush is little bit nose heavy, but almost unnoticably and balanced anyway.
But. Because of the cup, especialy when it is so high, weight of the cup has a tendency to tempt your hand to rotate to the side - especially when you don´t hold the airbrush perfectly verticaly. Second issue may be, that because the cup is kinda big and high, it may block the view on the painted surfaces.
So far conclusion:
I like the airbrush a lot. Especially when you take the price in account it is very nice buy. Iwata with 0,2mm nozzle, "stop screw" and all the other tweaks is HP line and costs basicaly double what Tamiya HG III costs. The comparison with Iwata is in my opinion fitting, because Tamiya has very nice build quality and overal feeling of a good tool - everything is precise, no wobbling, strange noises, cracks...
I can see some problems though. Well problems, lets call them attributes, because these can be disadvantage for someone, advantage for someone else and neutral for others. All that may be considered wrong with this airbrush has origin in its big cup and I have described them in the text. Someone can count as a con, that it has no box, no accesories.
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