Testing Gaahleri Airbrushes - Great New Airbrush Line 

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@barbatosrex From my understanding the Gaahleri airbrushes are unique since they have the “8 channel” Quick self centering nozzle. My questions: Do other similar airbrushes have a “quick self centering nozzle"? What makes Ghac 98D superior to the Ghad 39? The only physical difference? At first glance is… Needle: Ghac 98D has a 0.38 needle vs Ghad 0.35 needle Needle: Ghac 98D has a Flexible needle (only mentioned in Ghac 65 and up) vs Ghad 0.35 no mention of a flexible needle. Please confirm other models like Ghad-68 and down comes with flexible needle? Ghac 98D has Mirror fixed cup vs Ghad 39 Non mirror removeable cup. I’m assuming this makes cleaning easier? Aside from needle sizes, “flexible needles” and mirror cup what makes Ghac 98D superior to the Ghad 39? Does Ghac 98D atomize the paint better due to the “flexible needle” and needle sizes? What am I missing?

It's amazing that they've prebuffed the cups. I used some jewelers rouge and a canvas buffer on the inside of my neo cups which really cuts down on how much work goes into cleaning

Brilliant! I have the ‘trigger’ handle version (GHAD 068) which cost about £69 shipped to England so very good price and it’s so easy, comfortable and successful to use!! They even said thank you when I posted my review…….such a lovely company!! Bob England.

WOW, I will absolutely be checking this company out. The added features really seem like this company has put thought and effort in. Can’t wait to see more of their stuff, thanks as always for your extremely thorough reviews!

As a designer, I really appreciate the box design. These airbrushes really seem to be good quality for the price. One thing to note, though. I have a similar airbrush with the "chambers" they can sometimes clog, and even when one of them is glogged, the airbrush won't spray properly, so that's something to look out for.

I just ordered one of their kits with the air compressor, from Amazon. Comes with 3 air brushes. This is my first air brush, so we'll see how quickly I can learn to use it.

I ordered the Advanced Model GHAD-39, one for the great budget price and the two needle, two cup sizes. I needed a good primer brush and I think this is the one. Thanks again for all your work putting out these very information filled videos.

Thank you for another great episode. I’ve started to paint a truck kit currently. You make airbrushing look SO easy. Ugh I have a inexpensive airbrush I ordered off line and I’m having a lot of trouble with it. Thank you for all the great content you put out.

I've been using the Creos series PS-289 and PS-270 (love them) but I did use the discount code through your link and grabbed the Gaahleri ACE for $100. This is a fantastic airbrush at a fantastic price and is fast becoming my favorite. Love your reviews, keep up the great work.

I've been shopping online for a 0.5mm AB for primer and this popped up at the right time. With the Barbatos Rex seal of approval, and that discount code, this was an instant buy. Thank you Barbados Rex! You are making my first steps into painting my Gundam smooth!

That's some impressive quality and performance for the price point. At first I was perplexed that a .02 needle set isn't included nor available. I typically spray paint at 12-15 psi with the smaller needle set in my Iwata HP-CS and use my Badger Patriot with a .03 needle set at 25-30 psi for primer. I'm really impressed that the ACE model will get such fine lines with no spatter using the .38 tip. Pure speculation here, but it seems from a design point, these guys have maybe cracked the code on removing air turbulence at the needle. I know by removing the tip guard from my Iwata, I can get finer lines. So it appears that the tip guard actually introduces air turbulence, which affects how fine a line you can get. I'm not currently in the market for a new airbrush, but I'll definitely be telling folks about this. I'm impressed.

Thanks for all your hard work. Great product I am in the middle of testing my ace out now. Sharing the discount with you

Great review. I was looking for more information about the GHAD 39 that I just bought and after watching your review I couldn't be happier with my purchase. You do a great job going thru the product. Can't wait to start painting!! Thanks!!

I now use Fast Orange for cleaning off my hands, thanks to your recommendation! Love it!

The GHAC-98 Dual sprays VERY NICE! I used my GSI Creos PS-289 needle chuck though because I always disassemble my airbrushes prior to first use to clean and lube. Their needle chuck needs improvement. Does seem to like the paint a little thinner than my PS-289, yet seems to reduce orange peel. Very happy with this airbrush.

Just ordered mine. Will be here Thursday , can’t wait to test it out. I got a couple semi kits I need to prime.

Looks pretty good, just ordered the 98d

Thankyou robert for all of your help

I’m looking to get into painting my gunpla and i have decided to get the Fortress you did a video on. So many airbrushes though it’s hard to decide what to go with! I’m very new to your content but every video is 10\10.

Thhanks for showing these guys and great testing and I got to say the are priced well to each other to to everrone else!

Love the videos. Can I suggest a video, airbrush lacquer from hardware store or Decant spray clears to airbrush. I have not seen any videos on that. Trying to find cheap clears to airbrush with.

Just had mine arrive here in the UK. I’ve gone for the advanced and it feels like a solid piece of kit. Looking forward to giving it a try. Love your videos keep up the great work.

Good looking airbrushes. I’ll definitely be checking out the top of of the line units. Looking forward to the trigger model too.

Just ordered the Ace using your promo code and the Amazon coupon. Got $30.00 off. No brainer. Thanks for showing us this product!

I've been looking for a decent sub $100 pistol grip airbrush. I ordered theirs and have been pleased so far. With my current setup, I'm getting the best results with the .5 needle.

Those look like some decent airbrushes. Might have to look into getting one.

Thanks for posting this! I wrecked my 15 year old iwata HP-CS by overtightening the nozzle, and was shopping for replacement parts when I came across your video. It was a better deal to purchase a new Gaahleri brush. I needed a good cost effective .5 airbrush for priming and this one suits my needs perfectly. I still want to fix that iwata because I hate having broken things lying around, but couldn't justify the expense when something of this quality could be had for $40.

lol I just bought a Master Airbrush G233 set. It seems ok, needs a bit of fine tuning, but this seems like there is better engineering behind it.

Great product & review! At what point do we cross from hobbyist to fanatic with owned airbrushes? hahaha

Very nice! It seemed like the Ace really liked the primer, maybe more than the paint. They've really done the work to lay out some nice brushes and do some innovating in the process. I don't know why I didn't think of polishing the inside of my cups! I really wish they had sent you their trigger airbrush, as that would be up my ally. It looks good and uses some of the Ace and the Premium parts and has the eight channel tip. Well hopefully they'll send one your way and you can do some testing on that one.

First off, thanks for this review. I am happy to see new companies entering the market. I must be missing something though. For $120 you can pick up a Harder & Steenbeck Ultra, an Iwata Revolution, a Badger 105, a GSI 289, or many other name brand airbrushes. Other than the Chrome cup, which is nice, I don't see what would make me choose this airbrush over any of those. You are basically spending name brand money for a company that has no brand recognition, currently offers no replacement parts, and has pretty much one detailed review. I took a look at the $40 offering, and it looks almost identical to a $30 Timbertech set I own. Is the 8 channel MAC nozzle worth a 25% premium? Don't get me wrong, I hope this company can hang in there for the long haul, but right now it doesn't make much sense for me to buy one of these brushes unless they are heavily discounted.

Well worked airbrushes 🙌 great review 👍🏻👍🏻

They have a trigger style airbrush that I am now considering picking up based on these reviews. It seems to have comparable features to the medium quality airbrush you tested today.

great show! been looking for low budget, just ordered the $39 thank you

Sounds like quality brush at a great price! I'm in the market for a quiet compressor for the office. I'll wait to see if you test theirs before I pull the trigger on the Amazon one you recommended.

Looking at the box, it seems like the supreme is their top model. Hope you get to review that too!

I´m currently on a tight budget, so I bought the cheaper one; it just arrived today and it´s indeed quite awesome. I compared it to other quite similar cheap airbrushes, and while yeah similar, the measures are a bit different, and ofc, the drop off nozzle is quite different. Only downside is that the needles that came with it needed a good polish though.

Great review Rex. I'm currently using a 40$ no name brand from amazon as my first airbrush. Seeing how well these throw paint I'm might just have to throw down on one of these. Like you said that ace looks pretty sweet.

It's always nice to have more choices. I'm using those swabs you mentioned. They work great for cleaning!

Just got mine. Took it apart and had big problem with fitting the lever guide. Wow that little part is finicky… Hope it sprays as good the say ☺️

You sold me on the Ace. Used your link and your code 🤙

Great review! I can't believe that gun sprayed Model Air at 15 psi straight out of the bottle as well as it did!! I usually have to thin it with 2-3 drops of the Vallejo thinner and then crank the PSI to 20+ (on a 0.5 needle) just to get it to spray properly. Gaahleri has done their homework and produced an airbrush I would have made (if I had the money), which means I'll be purchasing two of the Ace models so I don't have to switch needles. Thanks again!

Your badger has the multiple air channels also. They are in the housing right in front of that single hole you showed. That hole is the air passage from the air check valve at the base of the body to the tip of the brush. The air comes out that hole into the nozzel housing and spreads out through the housing, then comes out the evenly spaced holes around that housing to spray around the nozzel tip abd needle. Still these look like nice brushes. But i can't let you misrepresent my badgers 😂😅😂😅

Great review. Considering a second airbrush with a discount like that.

Awesome review. I'm gonna have to get one to compliment my new badger renegade velocity! Can't wait for the paint review.

Great video. If I needed a new airbrush I’d consider it. But I already have my Neo for iwata, patriot 105, GSI creos ps289 and the cheap red one you did a video on and I haven’t even used the ps289 yet. 😅 I don’t paint enough kits or room for finished kits, to have that many airbrushes. I’ve only Just got rid of the all the cheap $20 ones I had lying around in various states of disrepair. But I’ve saved the video so when I do want a new one (it’s inevitable) I can go look up the link easily

I just bought the lower price one to try it out thanks for the video 👍👍👍

Awesome review! Thanks for giving us all of the info on this one. I was looking for a good airbrush with a larger needle for bigger projects. After watching your review, I've ordered one myself so I can give it a shot. Thanks again for all you do!

I own the ghad 39, the ghad 68, the ghac 98d, and the new swallowtail barbatox rex trigger ab. All are good brushes that I plan on keeping. With that said, the swallowtail has given me some trouble with the trigger not being smooth and with sharp corners on the trigger not being beveled. The brush becomes downright uncomfortable after a while. Whoever manufactures these brushes for Gaahleri represents the best quality that mainland china is currently producing. However, the price points of the 98 and swallowtail series are too high when compared to sparmax(better quality) and gsi creos(even better quality). I have no doubt Gaahleri will up their quality to compete with these 2 mentioned above companies. They are just not quite there yet. At their current pricing structure there are better choices to be had. I didn’t mention Iwata because although excellent brushes, they don’t really compete with Gaahleri price wise. I don’t know of an ab on the market better than a gsi creos for the price. They represent the best value in ab’s imho.

Ohhh I like that nozzle idea! Pretty basic concept and I wonder why everyone doesn’t have multiple ports for even airflow.

Once again thank you. Looks like all be buying another airbrush in the future

It's like they took the best aspects from Badger, Iwata, and H&S airbrushes all in one.

I just ordered the pistol grip, gihad-68. I’ll be picking up more of these.

Ended up ordering a GHAD-39. I'm still a beginner with the airbrush so I didn't want to go crazy with spending just encase I give it up( don't think I will though). Though I'll probably be ordering sometime next year the ace or swallowtail from them, when I start upgrading my setup

Sold!!love it....great vid...question...I been trying to get the airbrush stand that you use with no luck...perhaps you can point me to the right direction to get them...thanks in advance...👌👌👌

It's a shame the Ace doesn't come with the crown cap the Premium does. Wondering how these compare to the Badger Patriot since they seem perpetually out of stock.

Cant wait for thier Supreme version.

I was looking at an Iwata Eclipse, but for the price (especially with that 20%) i just ordered one of these instead!

Thank you for your review I surely gonna look at that since I try to start with airbrushing, it's always helpful.

They look fantastic! Good review

I just ordered the cheaper one as well it looks like it will do me for now I also got the NEDECO that you did a review on got to tell ya it’s a great little airbrush and enjoying it this one looks like a better quality I am only new to the hobby and have a lot to learn your videos help me a lot keep doing a great job 👍😁👍🇳🇿

another great video. i am just starting to learn how to airbrush . i bought a sagud airbrush compressor kit off amazon . it came with 3 airbrushes . i think it will be good to start off with. your videos will help me learn more trhank you for doing such great videos. the only thing is i cant tell what size needles come in them. they dont tell you on the paper work.

Well, I happened to be thinking about a new airbrush, and I'm on a budget, so I've got an Advanced on order! Looking forward to giving it a go.

"Once I get it flowing I get it going" :D I liked that line hahahaha Amazing review! I've been looking for a good airbrush to star with building models. Of all the reviews out there yours are the best. I think the GHAD-39 is more than enough for me at the moment and it seems that the quality of these airbrushes are outstanding and even seem wrong for the low price compared to how they are built and how great they work.

I'm hoping the Supreme is a .2 needle/nozzle setup

Thank you for sharing.

Purchased the Gaahleri GHAC-98D today for a Sunday delivery! Amazon gave an extra 5% discount in addition to the Barbatos Rex 20% discount for a total of 25%! Total cost out of pocket was $89.99 plus tax. This is on par with what I paid for the GSI Creos line of airbrushes also recommended by Barbatos Rex. I really like that they polished the inside surface of the color cup, and am wondering if this is possible to do on some of my other brushes?!

Just ordered the ACE on Amazon with the discount code. Thanks

Brushes look good, was thinking to get the ACE for the .5 option, but the discount code i see is only for 5%

What's the coupon code? You may have missed it in the description.

Great video as usual! Sounds like a promising new brand! Will you be reviewing the trigger version they offer? Will the discount code apply to that model as well?

Great review, nice airbrush’s. Thanks

Love the videos Barbatos! I've learned a ton! Do you think the Gaahleir advanced model or the Neoeco the better choice?

I am currently saving to get a PS-289 but by seeing ACE model, it really puts me in thoughts. Once more, great video Robert :) I hope it can work well with battery compressor. Unfortunately I can not go for the classic ones. It would be nice if you could talk about how they act versus your PS-289 and PS-290.

Thanks for the review. I'd be interested in how well the Advanced model would apply a metal flake/metallic finish.

Nice review. Definitely on my “to buy” list.👍👍

Great review. You convinced me to get the Ace.

I literally cannot tell the difference between the least expensive and most expensive other than the polished cup. What am I missing here?

Did you ever test the paint? You mentioned having it on the way. I’m considering it with an airbrush.

Discount code no longer available?

they also sell paint and airbrush compressor but after seeing this review I'm going to get this airbrush now will you be doing an airbrush compressor review from that Company too

Another top-notch review! Dumb question from a newbie... what's the benefit of spraying at a lower PSI?

I purchased the handheld kit that comes with their GT-08 I think. Its my first brush, but so far no luck. It has a real issue of constantly spitting, couldn't even get one muniature primed properly. Perhaps it's user error, or maybe I should have bought a more expensive kit.

I noticed that a few others are having the same issue as me, I’m only showing 5% off in my cart. These seem amazing

Woohoo made it in first this time. I just might increase my airbrush collection again.

You might have covered this in a previous video but wondering where you get the quick connect airbrush stands?

Nice looking airbrushes, I've been thinking about getting another one, not that I need another one but you know how it goes

Seems like the 40 dollar brush spit a couple times. The other two looked great.

already tried to purchase the advanced and no 20% discount given

When and where do I add the oil ? Getting ready to use em finally

I like your videos and appreciate the time you put into them but the badger and GSI have the air channels they in the air cap not part of the nozzle. If you going to buy the top of the line I would just go with one of the GSI

Bought a GHAD-39 with two nozzle sizes, very impressed with the engineering standard of the build, certainly better than the the other entry level tools I have (Harbor Freight & NeoEco) - the consistency of the results produced in fine work is especially satisfying and I believe delivered by the fluid control knob mechanism and ease of cleaning made possible by the design. I am only concerned with getting spare parts as and if I need them - the NeoCon and the HFT are problematic for spares; the Paasche VL & VLS I have are great for spares but can't really do fine work consistently; Can't seem to find spares online - Anyone got suggestions?

Only shows up as a 5% discount in the cart but still excited about a new business offering equal or better solutions at a better price.

Good review video as usual! Do you happen to have any videos done on the Sparmax airbrushes?

Fantastc video , im not super experienced so i just got the advanced.

I bought 2 of their airbrushes and l was wondering which airhose or adapter kit did you use

Where does one get spare parts for the airbrushes from? There's no working web site and amazon does'nt seem to list any spares!?

Do you know if the ace needles will fit and work with the advanced series airbrushes?

Where do you get the quick release airbrush stand in the UK.?