I have a plastic locomotive that I am in the process of stripping and then I'm going to repaint it. Would it be better to air brush it or can I get by with spray paint? Any brands you can recommend?
That's partly why I switched to Floquil. Being solvent based, it doesn't cake on the end of the airbrush leading to spitting. And I don't live in Arizona.water based paints sure are convenient, and work great for many things. But if you live in a dry climate and use water-based paints in an airbrush, the paint is mostly dry before it hits the model! In my experience living in the arizona desert, the cleaning water-based (acrylic) paints out of an airbrush is more difficult, because quite often the paint dries inside the airbrush before I can get it disassembled to clean it. Once it is dry, the only way to get it off is by scraping and picking.
Kevin