"Favorite brush size for painting your miniatures?" Topic

Which is your favorite size?

(a) 4/0
(b) 3/0
(c) 2/0
(d) 0
(e) 1
(f) 2
(g) Something else: __________
(h) I don't have a favorite size.

You can refer to this size chart for reference purposes:

I use a 4 and a 1 for the good bits and a whole host of others for pushing paint about.

I try to use a Winsor Newton 1 or 2 for 90% of the figure. The point is the key. A big brush that holds a good point holds more paint without drying out. I drop down to a 2/0 or 3/0 only to pick out fine details – buttons, straps, piping.

The sizes in your illustration seem off. Windor Network #2 would be approximately a 6 on this illustration.

I like size 2/0 for most work, and 1 for basic block paint application.

D

(e) size 1

H. Somehow in my case 54mm coats and 5mm cuffs require a certain amount of variety.

Pretty much all 2

C

Usually, a W&N 0. Ocassionally, W&N 1. Nothing bigger, nor smaller.

I have different brushes for different purposes, so "favorite" depends entirely on what activity I'm favoring.

In any case, brushes become non-standard sizes and shapes over time. Fraying, trimming, curving, self-reshaping, and shedding tends to make the size ratings irrelevant. Some of my favorite small brushes started as larger brushes, and most of my favorite "big" drybrushing brushes scaled up from smaller brushes by fraying.

- Ix

3, 2, 1, 0, and a 3/0 liner. I have a 10/0 but it's horrible fur dry brushin!

15mm – Windsor and Newton size 3 or 2 for most of the figure. Size 1 for the detail.

6 & 10mm – a medium quality sable (usually #2) for blocking in big areas and then my trusty W&N S7 miniature #1 for everything else.

15mm & up – a medium quality sable (#2 or #3) for most of the 1st coats then a W&N S7 #1 for most details and the S7 min #1 for finer detailing & sometimes for the highlights.

Old brushes get used for drybrushing – still usually sables.

I have found some synthetics that I quite like (and that haven't curled at the tip – YET) for buildings and such but still find they don't work well on figures.

I mostly use army painter "insane detail" I don't know what that is in numbers.

I use a random larger brush for the first block paint coat.

My preferred brush is a number 2 or 3 Rosemary & Co 401 synthetic sable mix with the long handle.

Choice of brush and size is such a subjective decision which is what makes this post so interesting.

Tony

1 and 2 to block it in, maybe a 4 or a big flat brush for ig areas, then usually a 0 for detail, occasionally a smaller one for fine details

Usually a 10/0

1.

I start with 2, or 4 if model is big enough, and block paint. At some point I switch to 1, and use that until the detail requires a smaller brush, when I go to a 0. It works out I use a 1 the most.

2,1,0

(e) 1.

I choose ones with a long point that holds very thin paint well.

0 is most used-- especially for blocking colors. Finer brushes down to 10/0 are occasionally used for detail, but rarely smaller than 3/0. Larger flats are used for dry- brushing.

Windsor and Newton Series 7 B) 3/0 for details.
3 for block painting.
As I mostly do the Dalimore method, no dry brushing.

0 when I can get a good one. 00 for details.

1 & 2

2 & 1 depending on scale of figure. 3/0 for small detail.

0/4, 4, 16 point
4, 10 flat
6, 8, 12 fan
small dotting tool

angle brush

and stylus

C

f (2) and d (0)

depends on what scale I'm painting! : )

With the brushes I get from the local hobby store the sizes I use are 5/0 for horses and other larger 15mm figures or objects and 10/0 for most of the rest. Have a 20/0 from Hobby Lobby for belts and other finer linework.

1 or a 0

The 1 is my go-to brush.

4/0, 3/0, 0, 1

It depends on what I am painting. My main workhorse brush is a W&N Series 7 size 2. I also have a 1 and a 0. I use an airbrush for priming. I also airbrush larger figures.