Update on new Omni 6000!

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Painting and airbrushing
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Well I recieved my Omni 6000 a couple of days ago and I’ve done alot of painting tests, head to head with my Iwatas with a very good report. I won’t go into detail to much in reguard to paint ratios, air presures, etc. to avoid a lengthy post. First of all I am very impressed with the Omni. The Omni’s nozzle and needle desighn is almost identical to the Iwata Eclipse line in that the Omni sprayed our heavy pigmented hobby paints with ease! The trigger pull isn’t as smooth but not any appreciable difference to my Iwata’s. Spraying characteristics were good to with very good atomization of the paint. It wasn’t hard for the Omni to produce fine lines as well as broad area coverage as well. With its .4mm needle/ nozzle the spray was very soft with a tight edge with both fine lines and wide spraying, not as refined as My Eclipse HP-CS or BCS but very acceptable for scale realism on most 1/72 and 1/48th scale aircraft camo schemes for example. Work-flow; ie. loading paint, spraying, and changing colors rapidly was just as fast and effortless as my Iwata’s. Like other Omni owners have reported, the instruction book was sorely lacking in actual “instruction” but the airbrush parts were emmediately familiar to me and break-down and re-assembly was not a problem. Clean up was just as easy as the Iwata, however; you must concider the detachable side cup, it requires a few more minutes to clean. An important aspect of cleaning is that all parts are easy to access and can be cleaned thouroughly…nice. The Coast Airbrush Omni’s have teflon bearings and a special adapter is available for use with the Aztek color cups. Paint flow was great and the Omni seemed to, like my Eclipses, be very tolerant to varying paint ratio mixed for special effects as well as general spraying. All-in-all I would rate the Omni 6000 an “A”, being one of the top of the line double action airbrushes available to modelers. My new Omni 6000 will be used for both detail and general spraying to replace a few seldom used Iwatas. I now have the following airbrushes available for sale if anyone is interested:

  1. Iwata HP-C (.3mm needle) double action, gravity feed $50.00
    *new cut-away handle, crown cap installed, new air hose

  2. Iwata Revolution HP-CR (.5mm) double action, gravity feed $30.00

  • new cut-away handle installed3.
  1. Paasche-H single-action, bottom-feed $20.00
    *new stubby crome handle, extra #1, #3 tip available,
    tools, bottles and hose available
    [img][http://www.dixieart.com/H.jpg/img]

Hope you all enjoyed the report and if interested in the above airbrushes, please reply by personal email. Thanks.[:D]

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Thanks for that great report Greg.
It sounds like another happy Omni user is born. [;)]

Did Coast Airbrush install the Teflon needle bearing in that Omni?
I wasn’t aware that one was available.

Mike

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They informed me that it was manufactured with a line bore bearing that resists solvents. I was mistaken in reference to the teflon bearing, I was thinking of the teflon upgrade for my Iwatas.

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That makes more sense to me now. [;)]

Why did you buy it from Coast? Just curious. I know the owner somewhat and he is a pretty sharp guy on airbrushes. He is an Iwata diehard too. [:D]
Do you like the side-feed models? Your other Iwatas are all gravity-feed and I was curious as to why you chose the Omni 6000 over the 4000?

Thanks

Mike

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I WANT THE REVOLUTION!!!

however, i live in canada… to solve probs, email me i_r_rule@hotmail.com

come to the dark side

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The 6000 seems to be more versitle. With the adapter I purchased from Coast AB Co. I can use all my Aztek color cups and bottles for it. This neat assessory was the real selling point for me. It was icing on the cake when I discovered how well it performed.

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Sounds great Greg.
Dave and his staff at Coast are real helpful too.

Mike

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As many of you know, I’ve been a proponent for the Omni 6000 too having recently replaced my Aztec.

But, as I was trying to paint the camoflage demarcation around the wing roots on my 1/48 P-47 last night, it finally dawned on me that the side mount cup has one distinct disadvantage. The cup can limit access in tight areas. I model WWII A/C. It’s difficult to get into areas around the engines on multi-engine A/C and around the wing roots and the fuselage. This has nothing to do with the Omni 6000 specifically. I had the same problem with my Aztec, along with 1,000’s of other problems……

I’d seriously think about the advantages of using the Aztec cups versus the accessibility advantage of the Omni 4000 if I had the 4000 versus 6000 decision to make all over agian.

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Good point Jim.

I never thought about that.

Mike