Pirate Wench
Scalpel supremo
my favourite finger paint is strawberry flavour
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Post by Pirate Wench on Feb 3, 2005 20:13:18 GMT 12
You know the 'learn to write' stuff you can get for young children it's all triangular shaped as apparantly that gives a better grip and more precise control over the writing instrument.
you see where I am going with this?
More precise and better control. I have seen vaguely in a picture somewhere on the net a set of fine paint brushes for model painting that had trangular shafts that were about the thickness of a pencil. But alas there was no information on who makes them or where a person could buy them, So it has me thinking .. when my kids started school before faber castell and staedler jumped on the new improved triangular shape bandwagon I used to buy rubber pencil grips that slipped on over the shaft of the pencil.
Never seen anything like it available for a paintbrush. Now I'm wondering about how to go about making a grip for testing purposes. But what should I use? I'm reluctant to try greenstuff as it is kind of permanent if I screw up. anyone able to think of something else? Us olden peoples need a bit more control over the brush for those torturous taskes like dotting the eyes.. one slight tremle and you've got a cross eyed archer.. that is bound to hurt in battle!
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 3, 2005 20:54:44 GMT 12
heheh. My average figure has his eyes painted about seventeen times! I read on a doll bashing site about a substance the sculptor used to make, erm, intimate female anatomy for one of his bashed dolls (don't know why!) He used "some putty sold in fitness stores to improve hand grip strength". He said it was green (probably irellevant, but the rest of his doll was also green) but soft and pliable, and never hardened or changed shape once he had formed it. here's the page (not suitable for younger viewers...) users2.ev1.net/~jimbobwan/gij85.htmOne strange, strange individual |
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Pirate Wench
Scalpel supremo
my favourite finger paint is strawberry flavour
Posts: 353
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Post by Pirate Wench on Feb 3, 2005 21:10:58 GMT 12
jimbobwan, that's the site I was trying to think of the other day. His stuff is great!
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 3, 2005 21:23:08 GMT 12
Me too!
He is unique and truly awesome . I'm planning do one of them curvy chicks myself one day.
His site is easy to find, just do a google for "demon monkey goddess". There's not too many of them.
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voltigeur
Ambitious Upstart
BOF from way back
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Post by voltigeur on Feb 11, 2005 22:29:30 GMT 12
I bought a couple of those triangular handled brushes from Acorn Models in Auckland. I'm sure they're made in Germany. They were OK but I 'm currently using Taklon brushes with long bristles. Much cheaper than the German ones and sold by Bunnings.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 11, 2005 23:52:55 GMT 12
I use taklon; good compromise of quality and economy I find
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G-nome
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Post by G-nome on Feb 12, 2005 14:08:26 GMT 12
I'm using the DAS pure red sable. I thought I'd always use nylon but tried sable after a post by Dragonsreach on Coolminiornot. I am now a convert. You have to look after them a little more but they seem to be a similar price and keep a point longer. Using bruch soap is a must too as I saw in another post that I forget now. It really is a surprise how much paint comes out of a "clean" brush. Reminds me of those vacuum cleaner salesmen with their sales pitch:)
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 12, 2005 15:37:50 GMT 12
As I said in anearlier thread, I used to use Windsor and Newton "sceptre" sable and nothing else. I find they are a tad expensive over here though, and with the amount of painting I have to do now, they just wear out too quick to be viable. The DAS taklons are very good for synthetics, especially if you take the time to look through each batch for the best ones. Cheap, durable, and pretty good, a nice compromise. I still have a couple of sables, but am finding now there is not such a great difference.
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Post by LordsWarrior on Feb 12, 2005 18:21:04 GMT 12
I use stationary warehouse ones. They have a huge range and go down to VERY thin.
I forget the type but it has a black handle white bristles and says 700 on it.
I bought 2 and they are lasting well.
-LW
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 12, 2005 20:57:53 GMT 12
They're Haydn synthetics, I've got a few of those; not too bad at all. Can't remember where I bought them, but it wasn't warehouse stationery, might have been whitcoulls
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Pirate Wench
Scalpel supremo
my favourite finger paint is strawberry flavour
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Post by Pirate Wench on Feb 12, 2005 21:21:59 GMT 12
What I really hate about paintbrush shopping at places like warehouse stationery is that hundreds of unsupervised snot nosed brats have fumbled through the racks, messing up the brushes and meaning I have to hunt through to find the 00's only to find there's two but both have been futzed by some 6 year old picking it up and using it to scribble his initials in spit across the rack front.. ok maybe I exaggerate a little, but I am picky about my brushes. I like to select the best one from a bunch of them, nothing worse than finding your brush splits itself off into two points when wet.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Feb 12, 2005 21:25:23 GMT 12
That's actually what I like best about it; don't know why, but I like searching through racks of paintbrushes and always have done. Anything else and I can't be botherred if it's not in the right place, I'm just odd when it comes to paintbrushes.
...and I very rarely use anything smaller than a 3. It's the tip that's important I find, not the overall size of the brush.
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