Anyone have this Portable Airbrush Paint Spray Booth?

For HO sure, kinda small for O and rather flimsy

I use disposable, portable paint spray booths like this, available in sizes suitable for almost any project.  No need to waste money or storage space.  Just turn on its side and open the garage door or set up on the covered patio for ventilation.

What, me worry?

I have two of these and use them side by side. Very nice. Handles O scale cars well.

I have one, which I've used for detail parts and/or those that are later going to be assembled into a structure. It works fine in terms of preventing overspray on to surrounding areas or generally into the room air. You need to be fairly close to a window for the exhaust to work as I think it was intended, which I've found a little inconvenient sometimes as I don't have a proper workshop area.

I don't weather engines or rolling stock but in any case the spraying space with a single unit is definitely not big enough for most O scale engines/passenger cars - apart from anything else you could not turn them on the included turntable. Boxcars, hoppers or cabooses, on the other hand, yes, in my experience it's absolutely fine. Also, if you want to paint 1/48 (or indeed 1/24) model cars it's fine for that.

BTW, I have used an ordinary box too at least when I've had to resort to a rattle can instead of an airbrush! 

A big issue for me is the fumes smell and the power vented spray booths work so much better than the cardboard box. Also, they can be used in the winter in climates that have winter. Two of them for O Gauge is still not so expensive like say one Legacy engine...

Alfred E Neuman posted:

I use disposable, portable paint spray booths like this, available in sizes suitable for almost any project.  No need to waste money or storage space.  Just turn on its side and open the garage door or set up on the covered patio for ventilation.

What, me worry?

I like that level of sophistication!

This is my second one. I forgot to turn the first well used one off one night and cooked the motor. I use a lot of rattle cans and the filters don't seem to last very long. Maybe 2 cans of paint and the filters pretty plugged then the fumes start backing up into the basement. I've painted around 50 buildings. As you can see I have a pretty long duct run to the outside. It may be better if you're going straight out through the wall or window.

It fit in my budget so I bought it. Shortly I hope to be done with the majority of the paint work and I won't need this anymore. There are way more expensive spray booths but it won't bother me to pitch this one when I don't need it anymore. If I intended to paint with an airbrush or rattle cans for the next 10 or 20 years I would probably go with something better.

If you buy it and paint a lot plan on buying a lot of filters at $10+/- each.

joe