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Welcome to the forum! The correct terms you're looking for are "single action" and "double action". Double action gives finer control over the amount of paint sprayed, but for most hobby use a single action is fine (and in my opinion, easier to learn with). As for brands, they're all pretty good. Badger and Paasche are probably the best known, and Testor's Aztec line is also popular and not too expensive. Whatever you do decide to get, put aside some money for a compressor. If you're going to do anything more than the very occasional painting, the compressor will give you a much better job than those cans of compressed air. You can get decent compressors for under $100 at just about any hardware store, and WalMart carries some too (look in the automotive department). If you go to the Layout building forum here and search on "compressor", you'll come up with a couple of recent discussions about them.
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