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So I have a GW Artificer Brush that i Really like, ive only owned it for 3 months and it has split, I take care of my brushes pretty well, cleaning them before and after painting and storing them up and not down. But They seem to always split and completly and I mean completly lose their point, every side just splits out... I really dont want to buy need brushes, what can I do? I have tried putting them in warm water and letting them dry and that does nothing....

Brush soap, leave it in shaped to a point - you will need to do it often.

Cheap brushes will do this, even ones that cost a lot, unfortunately

GW brushes seem to go bad quick. I like masters brush soap the best, I would try that.

What do you do whilst painting?
Even the best brush will split quickly with aggressive dry brushing, jabbing into nooks and crannies, getting dunked to the ferrule, used for mixing etc....

Use Winsor & Newton Brush Cleaner and Restorer. Pour a little bit into a small glass jar (the size of a GW or Tamiya pot). When your brush gets dirty, press the bristles against the side of the glass jar and roll the brush; you'll see all the paint separate out. Then rinse out in your water jar.

Your sable brushes will last forever (hundreds of models). Not only that, but it's much easier to paint great detail (such as with an Artificer brush) when there's no old paint stuck on the brush -- even if it's only a little bit of paint, it decreases your ability to paint accurately.

 Talys wrote:
Use Winsor & Newton Brush Cleaner and Restorer. Pour a little bit into a small glass jar (the size of a GW or Tamiya pot). When your brush gets dirty, press the bristles against the side of the glass jar and roll the brush; you'll see all the paint separate out. Then rinse out in your water jar.

Your sable brushes will last forever (hundreds of models). Not only that, but it's much easier to paint great detail (such as with an Artificer brush) when there's no old paint stuck on the brush -- even if it's only a little bit of paint, it decreases your ability to paint accurately.

From reading about this stuff, since it's solvent based, I'm assuming it's a really bad idea to use it on any synthetics?