About the Master Airbrush Range

Every product in the Master Airbrush range has a place somewhere along the path air takes from a compressor motor to a painted surface. At one end sit piston compressors, many with a regulator with gauge and a water trap. In the middle run braided air hoses, couplings and manifolds. At the tip is the airbrush itself, with its needle, nozzle and fluid cup. Complete kits bundle the whole path together with paint, and the cleaning tools and repair parts keep it working after the first session.

The kits are assembled around a single medium each: water-based acrylics, 16 FDA compliant face and body colors, 8 tattoo paints, 12 nail colors with stencils, or 12 Chefmaster food colors. With a compressor already on hand, a standalone airbrush, hose or water trap is all that is needed. Starting from nothing, a kit saves matching a compressor, airbrush and hose part by part.

What repeats across Master Airbrush gear

Line the Cool Runner compressors up and the same build keeps appearing: a 1/5 HP oil-less single-piston motor, two cooling fans, 25 liters per minute and 47 dB. The TC-40 is the exception, with a 1/6 HP motor and a single built-in fan. What changes from model to model is the extras. The TC-320 carries a diaphragm regulator with gauge and a water trap, the TC-420 switches off at 65 psi, and the TC-326T and TC-426 add a 3 liter air storage tank.

On the airbrush side, the repeated idea is the three-tip set. The G244, G255 and G344 each come with 0.2, 0.3 and 0.5 mm needles and nozzles, and the SB88 moves the same idea up to 0.3, 0.5 and 0.8 mm. Single-tip models commit to one job instead: the G45 to 0.2 mm detail, the S68 to 0.35 mm, and the E91 to 0.8 mm broad spray.

The three-airbrush kits also share a pattern. The G22, S68 and E91 appear together in the Twin-Piston, Face Paint and Cake Decorating kits, putting a dual-action gravity feed, a dual-action siphon feed and a single-action siphon feed airbrush on one compressor. The Cool Runner II Acrylic kit swaps the S68 for a G25, and the Three-Airbrush System Kit swaps it for a G34.

How to read the numbers before buying

Two figures describe an airbrush before it is in your hand: tip size and cup volume. A small tip lays down thin lines with thin paint. The G45 pairs its 0.2 mm nozzle with internal mix atomization, while the SB88 takes light to heavy viscosity paints on its 0.8 mm set and opens out to a 2 inch spray width. Between the two, the 0.3 mm tip on the G22 reaches about 1-1/2 inches of background spray.

Cup volume decides how often the paint runs out. The 1/16 oz funnel cup on the G344 holds enough for a quick color change and little more, and the G255 steps up to 1/6 oz. The 1.5 oz cup on the G244 and the 3/4 oz bottles on the S68 and E91 carry far more paint per fill for larger surfaces.

Compressor airflow is given in both liters per minute and CFM: the 25 l/min Cool Runner models sit at 0.8 to 0.85 CFM, the TC-600 at 48 l/min and 1.7 CFM. Noise climbs with size, from 47 dB on the Cool Runner and TC-77 models to 69 dB on the TC-600 and 70 dB on the TC-626. On a tank model, the auto off and on pair, such as 65 and 51 psi on the TC-426 or 116 and 87 psi on the TC-626, marks the pressure band held before the motor restarts.

Who the range suits and who should look elsewhere

Beginners and students are well served: the E91 is a single-action starter set with its own hoses and propellant regulator, the G22 and G344 are aimed at learners, and several kits include a quick start guide, a how-to manual or the How to Airbrush training book. Nail salons, face painters and bakeries get kits with paints chosen for their work. Artists who keep a different color in each airbrush can add the 6 station holder, which holds up to 8 airbrushes and regulates air at each of its 6 hose ports.

Some jobs fall outside what individual products do. The G45 has a single fine tip, so wide background coverage calls for a larger nozzle. The G344 tops out at about 1-1/2 inches of spray width with a small cup. The 3-way splitter is unmetered, so every airbrush on it shares one air pressure. The 4-airbrush holder relies on rubber suction cups that cannot grip rough surfaces, and the LED color matching light works for 2.5 hours per charge. The smaller Cool Runner compressors are not meant for air tools that need more than 0.85 CFM.

Cleaning, storage and repair parts in the Master Airbrush line

The two cleaning kits differ in scale. The 11-piece kit is 3.5 inches long on a key ring, with five stainless steel brushes from 2 to 5 mm and five mini needles, and it also suits tattoo artists cleaning tips, nozzles, grips and tubes. The 25-piece kit is a bench set: 13 micro needle sizes, a 5-piece mini-brush set, a double-sided dental pick, two tube brushes and a 16 oz polyethylene cleaning bottle.

Storage and inspection have their own parts. The TB-001 jars come 10 to a pack, each holding 0.75 fl oz (22 cc), for sealing mixed paint or replacing a siphon bottle. The 4-airbrush holder sits on a 360-degree rotating base. For auto body work, the LED color matching light gives 500 lumens at 2700K, 4500K or 6500K with a CRI of 96+, for matching paint colors and finding swirl marks and sanding scratches.

Repair parts come in two sizes for the same seven compatible models: the G22, G23, G24, G25, G26, G34 and G39. The 13-piece minor kit (MAS P20-MINOR) covers smaller repairs, while the 18-piece major kit (MAS P20-Major) is the fuller set of replacement parts for major repairs.