Army Painter Basecoating Brush: Size 5

The Workhorse of Your Paint Station

Every hobbyist needs a reliable brush that handles the heavy lifting — blocking in colours across infantry bodies, armour plates, and large flat surfaces before the detail work begins. The Army Painter Size 5 Basecoating Brush is built for exactly that job. With a larger belly that holds a generous amount of paint and a tip that still comes to a usable point, it covers ground quickly without losing control. It's the brush you reach for when you're batch painting a unit of ten and need to get base coats down efficiently before moving to washes and highlights.

What You're Getting

This is a single Size 5 basecoating brush — a larger round brush optimised for coverage rather than fine detail. The Army Painter designs their brush range specifically for the miniature painting workflow, and the basecoating line is meant to handle the first and most time-consuming stage: getting solid, opaque colour onto bare primed plastic, metal, or resin. Size 5 gives you the reach to coat larger models — cavalry, monsters, vehicles, and terrain pieces — without the tedium of working with an undersized brush. It pairs naturally with base paints and contrast-style paints that need to be applied across broad areas before the detailing stages begin.

Who Should Pick This Up

New painters will find that having a dedicated basecoating brush immediately improves their workflow — using a small detail brush to base coat an entire model is one of the most common beginner mistakes, and this brush solves it outright. Experienced painters building out a full brush kit will want a Size 5 in rotation for batch painting and for handling larger centrepiece models. The Army Painter brushes are priced accessibly, making them a solid choice for anyone who wants a dependable everyday brush without the premium cost of a competition-grade synthetic or kolinsky sable. This brush works across any miniature range — Warhammer, Warmachine, historical models, board game miniatures — wherever paint needs to go on efficiently.

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