Choose Your Paint

• The Badger 155 can be used to apply acrylic, watercolor, oils, enamels and many other types of paint. They do, however need to be thinned to a liquid consistency. Choosing your paint will depend on the subject matter and what you will be painting on.
  
  

Air Supply

• A minimal amount of setup is required before you can use your Badger 155. Firstly, you'll have to connect your airbrush to an air source. This can come in the form of a compressor or a CO2 tank. You'll also have to use a hose to connect your airbrush to your air supply.
  
  

Using Paint With Your Airbrush

• Once you've got your paint thinned down adequately, you need to attach your airbrush to a paint supply. The Badger 155 is a bottom-fed airbrush, which means that you'll probably be using a paint container. This container gets filled with paint and is then attached to the airbrush's air intake.
  
  

Applying Paint

• The Badger 155 is a dual-action airbrush, which means that you can control the size of the paint being sprayed through the airbrush, as well as the paint-to-air ratio. Start by pressing straight down on the airbrush trigger. This will cause clean (paintless) air to flow from the airbrush. You can control how much air comes out of the airbrush by how hard you press down. Once you have air flowing from the airbrush, pull back on the trigger for paint to start flowing. The farther you pull back on the trigger, the larger spray is applied.