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Naw, with cellulose the only difference between expensive gear and cheap gear is the amount of wetsanding required. You can apply cellulose paint with a football pump and get excellent results, so long as you put the time in.
FWIW I got a cheapo compressor and gun from Aldi for about fifty quid, and painted a car and a couple of frames (and a fridge) with it and got good results (better than factory, at least). But like I said, it needed quite a bit of flatting. I found a secondhand Devilbiss gun at a car boot sale which gives a more even spray pattern for better results.
If you want to use modern 2-pack acrylic, that's a different story - you need extraction equipment as it's nasty stuff. Not really DIY-able. Cellulose paint is difficult to find now anyway.