What type/make/size brush(es) do you use?

[kev1964]

I did use army painter brushes but found the tip bent after a week or so, i get Rotmarder sable brushes here , some have Rotmarder/ Kollinsky so i assume they are from the same company as the ones sold in the UK as Kollinsky.
Mostly 2/0 00 and 000, not bad price at apx £3 a go, i have some that are over a year old, as Techno says , if you look after them they last , it's worth spending a bit more money for a good quality brush if your using it regularly.
The Revell brushes are also good value.

kev

[getagrip]

Yep, Army Painter "hook" far too easily for me and some of their handles are just plain weird 

[Roy]

I tell you a problem I've found with the Army Painter brushes, is that the glossy finish to the handle strips away at the places where I'm holding the brush.

I'm use to the writing fading away over time, but never had the varnish just vanish - I can't even say I saw it peal away 

The brushes still work fine though.

The Monster Brush with it's pyramid -like handle is weird though.

[getagrip]

The pyramid brushes just don't work for me; the line is off set.  It must be the way I paint but they feel "refracted"; weird I know 

[Hertsblue]

I did use army painter brushes but found the tip bent after a week or so, i get Rotmarder sable brushes here , some have Rotmarder/ Kollinsky so i assume they are from the same company as the ones sold in the UK as Kollinsky.
Mostly 2/0 00 and 000, not bad price at apx £3 a go, i have some that are over a year old, as Techno says , if you look after them they last , it's worth spending a bit more money for a good quality brush if your using it regularly.
The Revell brushes are also good value.

kev

According to Wikipedia, Kev, Kollinsky is a type of weasel (not a true sable) from whose tail the relevant hairs are plucked. And I thought she was a Russian ballerina.... 

[NTM]

Synthetic brushes for me mainly Golden Taklon, Daler or Reeves. Think I have used the Works ones too.

[getagrip]

Synthetic brushes for me mainly Golden Taklon, Daler or Reeves. Think I have used the Works ones too.

Can you actually get a point out of any of them once the paint is on?

[Roy]

Can you actually get a point out of any of them once the paint is on?

For me; yes.

With sable brushes; no. Individual bristles keep going off at odd angles from the rest.

I wonder if it's got something to with how I put the paint onto the brush - I just dip the point in the paint, not a lap on the side surface, a true push it in movement.

[cbr3d.com]

Being an absolute tight a*&e and having read this thread I was intrigued by people using brushes from The Works (never having even considered them as a choice).  So this morning on the shopping trip 'I' had to do (the 'Boss' having injured her back) went into our local The Works in Kendal and purchased some.  One thing to note straight away they only had sealed packs so wasn't able to actually check the individual brushes, but I thought I would give them a try.

I use a wide variety of brushes ranging from hobby brushes (Plaid, GW, Revell, Humbrol, etc.) up to NW.  Normally I have 5 or 6 brushes of each size ready for when I sit down to paint so as when one starts becoming 'tired' I can wash it out and carry on painting with a replacement, so work can keep flowing (unless of course Rugby is on the TV when I will undoubtedly think the brushes need a good wash and left to dry naturally, normally for about 1 1/2 hours.  )

Mind you although I haven't taken the brushes from the Works even out of the packaging I am not enamoured of them at this precise moment.  I missed a delivery this morning by the postman - now I have to wait until Tuesday to get it redelivered, not so bad if it was something unimportant - but this is a delivery from Pendraken.     (A week ago I would have been able to just go to our local sorting office and pick it up, but oh no not now, our local Post Office closed and a sub-sub- post office has opened up instead in one of our local shop!)

[WeeWars]

I put up a post on my Blog about paint brushes back in January:

www.michaelscott.name/1809/1809blogpost181.htm

If you're ordering Winsor and Newton Series 7 remember there's a difference between a 'standard' and a 'Miniatures'.

Cheers, Michael

[getagrip]

Well, well, well; thanks Michael.

[NTM]

Can you actually get a point out of any of them once the paint is on?

Don't have an issue with that at all

[getagrip]

Been using my WNs for a couple of days now and, I have to say, they are very, VERY good

[Maenoferren]

I use a mixture of brushes,

however my  GW fine detail brush is doing very well at the moment, it has painted all of the Sudan figures on both sides and all of the knights to date.... worried it might give up the ghost before I finish them.

[getagrip]

I use a mixture of brushes,

however my  GW fine detail brush is doing very well at the moment, it has painted all of the Sudan figures on both sides and all of the knights to date.... worried it might give up the ghost before I finish them.

Hate that.  There's brushes and brushes and, even though you may stick to one brand, just occasionally you get a really good one that just suits you.

Then it dies