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So I started working on my Stormraven and got a section done before I realized that in a couple of places, I had bristles that had fallen out of the brush and were embedded into the drying paint. I was able to dig them out, but it left scoring in the paint. I wasn't done my base coat by a long shot, but given the scoring that needed to be done to dig out the bristles, would I be better served by just stripping the model and starting over from scratch? Or is this sort of thing recoverable?

The problem is that the bristles and your subsequent efforts to remove them will leave areas of different paint thicknesses that will show up. You can ignore them and end up with a slightly lumpy paint job. Depending on what you're trying to do it might not be noticeable. You could try and sand down the paint local to the damage and build it up again, but it might still end up looking patchy, or you can strip the whole thing and start again. You could also do the lumpy bits up as battle damage with some nice scoring and plate damage built into your paint scheme

I'm think I'd scrape the hair off and paint the area as battle damage.

I wouldn't strip it because you might end up having the same problem happen. I would do as the above poster said and just do some battle damage there.

Saves time and looks cool!

The brush in question was purged along with any other suspects, but I appreciate the points, I'll experiment with battle damage where appropriate and see how it turns out, if I'm not happy it's stripping time

 Flinty wrote:
The problem is that the bristles and your subsequent efforts to remove them will leave areas of different paint thicknesses that will show up. You can ignore them and end up with a slightly lumpy paint job. Depending on what you're trying to do it might not be noticeable. You could try and sand down the paint local to the damage and build it up again, but it might still end up looking patchy, or you can strip the whole thing and start again. You could also do the lumpy bits up as battle damage with some nice scoring and plate damage built into your paint scheme

I botched up spraying my Rhino today (a mixture of standing to close and it being too cold where I sprayed) However in hindsight with a bit of work it can fit with the look of my army through rust and weathering.

If you have a fine-grain sandpaper you can just lightly sand the area before adding more paint. Make sure that you thin it well and build the paint back up slowly over that area so it doesn't get too thick.