Sadly, the space available precluded the before and after shots of the brushes I tested the cleaning product on. That's a pity as the stuff really works well. I've tried similar products for rejuvenating paint brushes in the past and none have worked nearly as well.
As a test, I tried it on three brushes – a couple of Trumpeter synthetic brushes and a very old bristle brush. All three had paint build-up that had hardened many months ago. You can see from the photo that two of the brushes changed colour, in a good way, and the other looked a bit happier. Since this last one was bought cheaply from Beatties when they had a shop in central Birmingham, you can work out how old it might be - older than some readers of this blog!
2 comments:
I use cellulose thinners for all such jobs. Almost instant.
Brush Magic smells nicer than cellulose though - in fact it hardly smells at all. Don't mind cellulose for the airbrush as I'm wearing a mask and working in a spray booth.
For indoor work, especially if you have to be near the family, it's too smelly and inflamable.
However, it's nice to have options to do the job - if we were all the same it wouldn't be any fun. For a start we might all want to model the GWR and that would be no good at all...
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