It's kinda a balancing act for me, viscosity, pressure, type of paint, i never just start by shooting anything till i have everything so so, i keep a lot of scrap bodies and stuff to get everything right first.
Primer is important, I use Tamiya rattle cans or bottles, sometimes a sandable rattle can, or Mr. surfacer 1000
I have several airbrushes, Pasche, TR-1 and 2, an old badger and a couple of external mix cheapies for the high flake craft paint.
Believe it or not i'm having pretty good luck with these craft paints, very cheap and if you get it right, a damn good finish. I have a lot of the Creative colors and such, don't use them because they are a pain in the rear,expensive and are a true polyurathane, so ya have to have great ventilation, and mask, some of the large rattle cans from Walmart,ect. come in handy sometimes, especially if you decant them, the old Testor's rattle cans are pretty good also.
