I don't mind having to go over a panel a few times to get a smooth finish and I get a kick out of transitions made up of multiple layers, sometimes of different colour. I actually use airbrush paint and inks a lot of the time. Personally, I'm more of a 'two thin coats' sort of guy. For that to work he needs to lay down solid layers. His talk of 'values' is describing how he uses a high contrast style, applying bold colours next to each other. The full belly of these brushes is a feature, not a flaw.Įmil also tends to apply paint in thicker, translucent layers. His brush allows him to stay on the mini for longer, completing a piece in a fraction of the time a regular brush would allow. Emil paints at an insane pace, only returning to the palette to change or blend paint. It's something we do unconsciously, but it keeps us off the mini for a lot of the session. As most of our (miniature painters) brushes are actually water colour brushes, they tend to need frequent dips into the water pot or the palette to keep the tip usable with acrylics- water colours are much kinder and hardly ever dry out. By keeping the bristles short they keep the tip wet, even if you use it for an extended period. The Squidmar brushes hold an unlikely amount of paint. I've washed the brush, snipped off the worst of the spider legs, but it's never going to be a needle like my beloved Rosemarys. It happens, I've heard people claim the same happened with all of the quality brands- it's a natural product, sometimes you get a duffer. Turns out there really are some quality control issues: Issue resolved, simples, right?Įr, no, not exactly. So I switched to the 'M', cutting the amount of paint in the brush by half. The Brits are considerably narrower, with a much smaller belly: Here's a W&N 7, An Artis Opis and a Rosemary Series 8. The Squidmar 'L' is closer in shape and size to a Raphael 8404:Īlthough the bristles are around the same length it's actually a much larger brush. I usually use British No 1 size brushes, Rosemary, W&N and so forth. The first issue was me using the biggest brush on a figure around an inch high. So, with much humming and beard stroking, I headed back to my painting table. They've both got far too much to lose to risk punting out a poor quality brush. These are a premium product, with a huge personal investment from one of the most popular, up and coming painters on social media, working in partnership with Germany's top brush manufacturer. Having slept on it, I figured I had to be doing something wrong. Thoroughly deflated, I washed the brush and headed off to bed. Repeatedly! I stuck at it all evening, but the harder I tried, the worse things got. The full belly of the brush- I'll come back to that- holds a huge amount of paint, which it proceeded to drench the mini with. Worse, the hair was much softer than I as expecting, bending and splaying almost as soon as I touched hair to plastic. The brush refused to hold a fine point, making detail work tricky. Things didn't exactly go according to plan. I chose the 'L' brush and eagerly got stuck in! The minis are simple, the detail is crisp and they're all pretty open, allowing easy access for your brush.Īnd the brushes themselves are beyond gorgeous! They're probably the best looking brushes I've ever seen: (A box I enjoyed so much I grabbed another when I started to run out of minis to paint from the original.) The results were illuminating, to say the least.įirst, the chaps, from the old Dark Vengeance box set. Well, last month I finally got a chance to dust them down and see for myself. Mine were delivered on time, looked absolutely gorgeous and got thrown into the 'ready use' drawer, to be given a months long ignoring to until I could finally find some time to use them. Reviewers shilled the heck out of them- they were undeniably the best mini brushes on the market! Some backers weren't so sure, with complaints of late delivery and serious quality control issues popping up all over the place. Last year, youtube phenomenon and professional painter Emil Nystrom, better known as 'Squidmar', crowdfunded a set of Kolinsky paintbrushes, aimed specifically at miniature painters.
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