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Hello, friends!
I am actually a compete noob to model's painting but I work for a business that produces different kinds of paint brushes and we've been arguing what kind of brushes would be good in a set specialized in model painting. So I thought I'd come here and ask for your opinions.
So, my question is open-ended: what type of brushes would you ideally want to have to paint your models?
And if you don't want to describe the whole set - here's a question that my partner and I've been most arguing about: is an angle shader brush needed for this? To explain what I mean, here's a sample of such brushes:
http://www.amazon.com/Student-Golden-Synthetic-Angle-Shaders/dp/B00N64WQYU/
They are not ours but similar to what we have in mind. I know those are different sizes but I just wanted to show what shape I mean by the angle shaders.
In any case, I appreciate your feedback if you can give me any.
Have fun with your models!
Sasha

I've been using cheap brush sets from Hobby Lobby. I find 1/2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 round tip range works well.

For wash or watered down priming in the initial painting stage, I find that Camel hair brush works very well, in the size of 4, 6, 8, 10 round, and 12 flat tip works very well.

An angle shader is not really a brush that you need for figure painting. Even if you were painting tank hulls a flat would be fine, though I could see using the angle shader in this case... but it would be a matter of preference rather than of need.

For the majority of figure work you can get away with just having a couple of sizes of round brushes, and then some larger flats (again, if you are brush-painting tank hulls or the like).

Hello again, friends!
First of all, thank you for the responses back then! We're finally making the brushes, so hopefully soon I'll be able to show them to you. It took a while to collect the needed info, figure out the optimal set and design the packaging, but we're almost done.
Have a good one!

I will be interested to see the final product, I really hope they are being made with natural fibres and not synthetics.

Synthetics are just never the same quality.

http://www.brokentoad.co.uk/

I recently bought the set from this company. You can pick them up from a US seller no problem. I believe they list two sites here. These brushes are excellent, and for the price you really cant beat it.

Only for vehicles and terrain