hiya miche and welcome to the best dang cake decorators friend on the web!!!! CC is totally awesome!!!
K now on to the subject at hand. I use an airbrush at home and at work. At work I use the bakerycrafts (badger) airbrush and compressor. Heavy duty and use it alot but sometimes if you aren't careful blows holes in the cakes and the overspray is awful. Now the one I use at home is the KopyKake kopyjet system with the regular airbrush and small compressor. I like it because I have better control over the "brush" strokes and I can get smaller detail with it (check out pics in my post, (just click the photo tab at the bottom of my answer there)). The horse cake is entirely airbrushed with my home setup. I got this at www.sugarcraft.com
I also bought the color sets from there too. I like the setup and the price wasn't that bad. With the airbrush and compressor and the color set (the 11.95 set i believe) only cost me round 200.00 including shipping. So just look around the net and price what you need but the kopykake systems seem to be the best. The other setup can only be purchased by liscenced bakers and such (darn)!!!
Now if you have any questions as to technique, we can go into that "when" you get your airbrush setup. LOL
Heavy duty and use it alot but sometimes if you aren't careful blows holes in the cakes and the overspray is awful.
Hey chaptips...sounds like you got the air pressure too high on your Badger! Can you adjust it?
miche138
Airbrushing is great fun, but you really have to practice to get good with it. Browse the forum and maybe get a beginners book. It's hard to talk about technique until you get the basics down.
Try searching the gallery for airbrush to get an idea of how others use it.
fraid not on the badger, but with practice i can manually adjust, with the trigger, how much pressure I use. It's basically used where I work for volume and needs to be fast with the coverage. O well, make due with what cha got is my motto!
P.S. The horse cake in my photos is airbrushed and so it the two tier purple and teal and the blue cake along with the mexican flag and colorado cake. The others are either fbct or fondant. o yeah the cup-o-cocoa bronco cake is a combo of fondant and airbrush
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