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I need some new Brushes as all my brushes are pretty much fethed up over years of inactivity and bad care.

So I recently bought this: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0040RPF04/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I like them for the tip being a little shorter than my nature hair brushes and they are more steady and hard. I killed some of them using enamels and white spirit which apparently dissolves them somehow... Also all of them have veeery long hairs in the middle which just dont fit in the rest of the tip and wobble around. Pretty annoying for details.

I also got a Airbrush so I don't need any very large brushes. I want some good brushes with a budget of around 50€. I would really like brushes with short and harder tips. Not as hard as drybrushes but I often found myself using a gw drybrush for edgehiglighting as it was easier to handly for me. I got some intact army painter brushes left. They have a very soft tip and I don't really like them.

I haven't ever used expensive brushes meerly because I don't have access to them, so I'll recommend something that served me well even if it doesn't fit the criteria. Size 0 brushes by a german company called lukas. I did get one bad brush from them once, so I guess not all batches are the same.

Windsor and newton brushes, series 7 sanle. Great brushes.

Some people rave about Rosmary and co series 33, but i have no experience of them.

Winsor newton short haired ones. Though I personally prefer long hair.

 CragHack wrote:
Winsor newton short haired ones. Though I personally prefer long hair.

Yeah I have some broken toad brushes, the hairs are quite short on them makes it easier to get paint too high up the bristles well hairs more accurate a word I guess. They do keep their point rather well still though, I'm told not as good as winsor and newton though haven't personally used them though opted for the broken toad because it was £14 cheaper for the set of 4 than the winsor and newton set of the same size brushes, call them my seeing if sable really was all it's cracked up to be set which I'm very happy with, sable really is all it's cracked up to be. Like any brush you want to keep using for a long time take care of them, don't use hot water to wash them out, don't let paint dry on them, don't get paint in the ferrule, leave them tip down when not in use as long as they have a cap, which all good quality brushes do unless you lose it , this way if there is any moisture in the brush it will drip downwards away from the ferrule. Lastly invest in some ' the masters brush cleaner and preserver' which I even use on some rather cheap brushes a tub of the soap will last ages I'm about a year in and probably not even used 10% of it, though i'm not a heavy painter getting into it more now ask me another year how much i've used. Sorry about the wall of text hitting you for your full hit points.

W&N s7 are well worth it imo

I've also the Rosemary & co 33s and like them quite a lot - they are some hardworking brushes for not as much as a W&N. They also don't last as long but they're great while they do

I've become a fan of the Games & Gears kolinsky brushes. I appreciate the design of the body, and the points haven't deteriorated over the few years I've had them (but Im not a daily painter)

The production of Sable brushes involves leg traps to catch weasels in China & Russia. Those are banned in many parts of the world for being too cruel. I go with synthetic brushes for more peace of mind, but it all depends on how much empathy you have I suppose, a lot of people don't give a f.