Hi all,

When I was a lazy model aircraft trade kit manufacturer and distributor I often put a 'Dud's tip' in the catalogue or kit instructions. I thought it may be useful to resurrect the practice within the Flitzer group, in fact if all Flitzer builders did tips we would hopefully all be better armed to tackle the Flitzer build.

This first offering is on the care of brushes. When you have several sessions of varnishing to do it is painful to do the proper thing by washing the brush in the appropriate thinner, and then washing in a high concentration of Fairy liquid or similar, squeezing the brush through twixt thumb and forefinger.

Better to drill a hole in the lid of a jar, pass the brush up through it, screw the lid onto the jar (after putting some thinners in of course) and apply a clothes peg to keep the brush just off the bottom. Own up, how many brushes have you ruined by allowing it to go out of shape by slumping down on the bottom of the jar?

Regards