Best entry level Iwata is the Revolution CR. I own two and they do everything I need them to. I also have an HP-C with a smaller nozzle for more delicate work but rarely use it. For the price vs features the CR is the way to go in the Iwata line up.
Pros of canned air, portability, no noise, no moisture.
Cons, you run out because you use more than you think you are and always will run out in the middle of a job. As you use the can it cools and will frost over during an extended period of spraying, I suggest sitting the can in a bowl of warm water. As the can cools it looses pressure too. In the longer term they are stupid expensive.
I suggest that if you want to try canned air for now press a portable air tank into service. If you don’t have one they are cheap and hold lots more air than a can, you’ll quickly spend more on the cans than you will a tank for the same amount of use. You can fill the air tank at the gas station.
Wow, I was able to get through a reply that stayed on topic, answered the OP’s question, and didn’t offer advice that wasn’t asked for in the first place or try to sell him something he never wanted to know about to start with. What a concept.
Congrats Steve, I’m sure you’ll enjoy that brush and compressor. I like gravity fed brushes but those bottle fed brushes sure are handy too, you can use as big a bottle as you want and never have to reload. And if you should ever want to try it, the .35mm nozzle and needle will drop right in.That compressor should be fairly quiet and hopefully last you a long time.
If you want to try a tools compressor indoor, make sure that it is returnable. Not everyone has the same high tolerance for noise. Likely that it won’t work if you have family.
Look again. Your 150 will be a bottom feed or siphon feed. A top feed 150 is called the 100.
Iwata are among the finest of the airbrushes, but you do pay a premium for them (though not a HUGE premium). Consider them a BMW and a Badger as a Chevy. The new Renegade line would be your Corvette. You can get a top end Badger for the cost of a low end Iwata. Then consider that airbrushes are not cars, but tubes that spit paint. My philosophy is save some money on the airbrush, and spend the “extra” money on the compressor. I’ve found that it’s the hands, rather than the tool, that’s important, and that whatever I can’t do with my trusty Badger(s), I won’t be able to do with an Iwata, or H&S or Grex. My ability runs out long before the capability of my Badger 100LG. And you can’t do anything without a reliable source of air.
Expect to spend between $75-150 for the airbrush, and $150-250 for a good compressor.
CO2 has some great advantages, but my luck would have me running out on a Saturday night during a long weekend where Monday is the holiday. Maybe if I had two tanks… [^o)]
I use a garage style compressor and pipe the air into my mancave. That way I don’t hear the compressor (though my neighbors do, teach them for running their hot tub motor all freaking night!), because it is LOUD!
My wife was in the nail art business and when she retired gave me her iwata double action brush and compressor, so beggers can’t … So far I like the brush and have used both enamal and acrylics, but like the results with acrylics better.