Spraying Equipment
Conventional spray gun
Devillbis and latterly Sata dominate in this market. Gravity feed guns, with a paint cup on top, are more popular than the suction feed variety, with a can below, as the can gets in the way. There are different sizes of guns and with each model you can get different nozzle and needle set ups. Large needles tend to be better for scenic work. Any gun you buy must have an air fan control as well as an air valve and a needle control.
A HVLP gun with Turbine
A hard wearing gun that's good at spraying paint more quickly than a conventional gun. However they have limited use for scenics as they have no air valve. They are also very noisy if run off a turbine. A great way to make yourself un-popular at a paint frame.
A Texture Spray Gun
This spray gun will spray texture the consistency of porridge. Its invaluable when you need to apply texture to a large area of scenery. Like any other gun you can vary the size of particle that is sprayed. This one will do from dust to globules! Its a messy contraption but so much better than doing it by hand.
Greenhouse sprayer
Cheap and very useful. It will only spray washes (not thick paint) but a greenhouse sprayer is great for building up layers of thin paint quickly. The nozzle will produce a mist, a fine mist down to a course spatter, (before it becomes a jet which is less useful). Air pressure is controlled by the pump on the top. A greenhouse sprayer is less useful when working on a frame as a combination of lots of wet paint and gravity can easily get out of hand.