StreetBushido
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Something that i've often found frustrating when reading articles about modelling and painting is the fact that these people have had excellent access to all kinds of resources. In larger countries such as the US of A and the UK there's enough of a population base to support small hobby store so that a town may actually have a store dedicated soley to modelling and hobbies of that kind.
/rant
Sorry about that, I just had to get that out of the way first.
Here in Sweden hobby stores are not that common, and the closest thing I had to local hobby-store closed down years ago. Recently though I found an excellent swedish site with a good selection of all kinds of hobby-related stuff, and a good range of minis from companies OTHER THAN GW (they otherwise basically have a monopoly on the mini&paint-market over here). Seeing that they sell brushes I thought it was high time to upgrade from my old and battered old pals. Thing is, they only have two brands: GW and "The Army Painter". I'm not exactly leery of GW, but I've had mixed experiences with their brushes before and so I'll gladly look into alternative brands.
I read this excellent article on how to select and maintain brushes: http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/35 but sadly I've never had the opportunity to conduct that kind of pre-purchase tests.
I do digress though. The site offers quite a few brushes with a wide range of sizes from both GW and The Army Painter. The prices are basically the same, with The Army Painter being slightly cheaper.
In wrapping up this, somewhat meandering, post I ask you; which side of the fence should I jump? Or should I look elsewhere entirely? I reiterate that finding brushes (that aren't GW) is tricky around here
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Anyway, thanks for your time.
/rant
Sorry about that, I just had to get that out of the way first.
Here in Sweden hobby stores are not that common, and the closest thing I had to local hobby-store closed down years ago. Recently though I found an excellent swedish site with a good selection of all kinds of hobby-related stuff, and a good range of minis from companies OTHER THAN GW (they otherwise basically have a monopoly on the mini&paint-market over here). Seeing that they sell brushes I thought it was high time to upgrade from my old and battered old pals. Thing is, they only have two brands: GW and "The Army Painter". I'm not exactly leery of GW, but I've had mixed experiences with their brushes before and so I'll gladly look into alternative brands.
I read this excellent article on how to select and maintain brushes: http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/35 but sadly I've never had the opportunity to conduct that kind of pre-purchase tests.
I do digress though. The site offers quite a few brushes with a wide range of sizes from both GW and The Army Painter. The prices are basically the same, with The Army Painter being slightly cheaper.
In wrapping up this, somewhat meandering, post I ask you; which side of the fence should I jump? Or should I look elsewhere entirely? I reiterate that finding brushes (that aren't GW) is tricky around here
.Anyway, thanks for your time.
