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Brush selection
meandme
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Porto, Portugal
Member Since: September 12, 2010
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Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 11:27 PM UTC
I need to buy brushes for painting my figures but i want your help to choose what brand and numbers i have to buy.

Tks.
JanusAust
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Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 07:34 PM UTC

Hi,

questions - what scale will you be painting in?

and with what kind of paints?

Me- I use acrylics, and use mostly a number 1 or 0 brush, and for super fine details, go to either 0000 or even 00000

Recent;y picked up a long 10/0 brush, used that for putting eyeballs on a 28mm figure.

I selected a few sable brushes, take care of em, they will last a long time,

the others are taklon, designed for acrylic and gouache paints...

HTH


retiredyank
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Posted: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 10:28 AM UTC
For all of my detail painting, I use a 00 or smaller brush. As far as those go, I use taklon brushes. I have one set for acrylics and another for enamels. Where larger brushes are needed, I use sable(pretty much what Jamie said).
-Matt N.
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