How To Use Model Paint Brushes

I'm going to show you how to paint with model paint brushes. I've got a variety of different makes and types and quality here. They're basically gauged one upwards.

Two being bigger, three being bigger than that, and then downwards so that zero is fine and you've got a two zero and a three zero, each one getting finer. So you've got a five zero there. That's the extremely fine paintbrush there, and you've got a three zero paintbrush going all the way up to these much bigger.

That's an eleven. You'd use that for covering large areas. If you're making large scale models then that's usable for that, but these one's you'd use a lot more for painting figures.

About types, this one is marketed for use with watercolor paint, but it's just as good for model work. Again, each workshop sells their own paintbrushes but I prefer these. Don't be worried about getting the ones which aren't so expensive because you'll just go through them anyway.

When they're this small, they're quite easy to damage so you will go through them. I just suggest getting many different types as you can of the same size and finding the one that you like. I've had the experience of buying an Aquifier brush and it staying really good for months, and picking up another one and literally not being anywhere as good.

So, they do vary in quality being the same make and same name. I'm going to show you a few different ways of using these brushes now. I'm getting some of this dark flesh colored paint onto the brush, then I'm taking most of that paint off, and I'm going to color slowly like that.

You can see what happens is that the brick work starts getting picked out. The paint isn't going into the recesses so that first color that you put on there is starting to look like the rendering of the brick work. You've got one technique which is dry brushing which I've done here.

This other one is basically giving something a wash of color. What I've done here, this is for doing tiles. I've painted this area here with this gray.

You don't have to use this particular make of paint. Any sort of light gray color will do, and that's just had one coat of gray paint there. What I'm going to do is take a bit of black paint which I'm going to water down quite a lot, and I'm just going to brush that paint on and you can see straight away that that's picking out all the detail.

And that's how to use model paint brushes. .