Hi All, I have only ever brush painted my models but never really thought about if there are a set of particular brushes to have/brand size including dry brushes etc. I've just got a load of all sorts. But it would be interesting to know if there are any people left that paint by brush, what they use. As importantly technique
Thanks
Chris

spotters & grainers are helpful

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paintbrush

I use both AB and brush but i prefer the second,you are in UK and you have at home one of the best quality/value/customer service brand on the market...

https://rosemaryandco.com/?SID=c4900kp325moi7tt46fg7b5tk0

you can find every sort of brushes

here we speak about these brushes...

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/279388

I’ve always preferred brushes, only occasionally resorting to airbrush for certain kinds of camo stripes/patches. Just a standard medium sized soft (sable) brush either flat or domed, it really doesn’t matter. What does matter is paint consistency, better to paint 3 or 4 very dilute coats than one all-out attempt to cover which typically gloops up the fine detail. The other advantage of thin coats is you brush in one direction for coat 1 and different directions for successive ones to eliminate any trace of brush-strokes. I usually slightly alter each coat with a faint tinge of a random other colour and deliberately be a bit slapdash with it i.e. don’t paint to perfectly cover the last coat, hence the type of brush doesn’t matter much…as long as it’s not so cheap it sheds hairs.

I’m talking here about acrylics, just super-cheap student-grade artists’ acrylics in big tubes & mix them myself. I only use an oil-based enamel (Humbrol Steel or similar) for the priming/base coat (also brushed) which makes basic wear & tear easy by very gentle passes with fine sandpaper to take off the acrylic when dry to expose the more resilient steel coat where desired.

Some examples, even the camo on the Ferdinands was brushed:

http://village.photos/tagged/ponyri

Those are some great tips Tim, thanks!! I sold my airbrush a while ago, I don't like the hassle. I love handpainting, but it isn't always easy but your tips will help.

About brushes, I tend to like rounded better than flat, but that's a thing of personal taste. And synthetic over natural.