powder paint or air brush

[crappie josh]

i have a fluid bed for my powder paint and it works great and every thing but ive been looking more and more into replacing my fluid bed with an air brush.that and when i use my fluid bed i tend to get powder paint dust all over everything i dont know if im using it wrong or thats just the way it works, any way what do yall perfer a fluid bed with powder paint or an air brush? what would be cleaner for in the house use?



thanks every opinion is greatly appreciated

[cadman]

I use a fluid bed only for base colors. If you do multi-color the fluid bed at that point will be useless. If you want the quickest and cleanest and most economical way to paint jigs. Then powder paint is the way to go. If you go the airbrush route there is a lot of initial cost. Using water based paints like Createx, you must then clearcoat all of your jigs. If you use lacquer paint, then no clearcoat is needed. However, you must have adequate ventilation, a respirator, a spray booth with a non-combustible overspray extracting system. I use powder paint and Createx. I powder paint a basecoat on some special jigs and then I can spray it with Createx, heat set it and then clearcoat. There are many things you can do with an air brush even with water based paint that you can not do with powder paint. There are many ways to make some really creative jigs out there. Just my two cents worth.