Bandai🧽 MBK Brush Care – keep your tools looking like new
Brushes are the heart of precise work – especially in scale modeling. Fine edge painting, ultra-thin washes, precise drybrush effects, pin washes in panel lines, or delicate detail painting on figures, cockpits, road wheels, and tracks: all of this only works with well-maintained brushes. Clumped paint, frayed tips, or swollen handles are frustrating – and can ruin your work on tanks, aircraft, ships, cars, dioramas, or miniatures.
As an online specialist store for model kits and accessories, Modellbau-König (MBK) has developed a practical, proven care range: the MBK Brush Jar for efficient brush cleaning, the gentle MBK Brush Shampoo for regular care, and the thorough MBK Brush Soap with a glycerin base for stubborn paint residues. This keeps your brushes – whether for acrylics, enamels, or oils – clean, elastic, and always ready for use.
More Precision, Less Cost: Discover Brush Care Made Easy
- More precision: clean tips for sharp demarcation lines, decal sealing, filters, and pinpoint washes.
- Longer lifespan: your detail, liner, and flat brushes last significantly longer – ideal for expensive natural-hair brushes.
- Material-appropriate: works with acrylics, enamels, oils, lacquers, pigment binders, and thinners.
- Efficient & economical: less solvent consumption, less waste – good for your budget, the workbench, and the environment.
- Clean & gentle on skin: thoughtful use without unnecessary skin contact with harsh cleaners.
🫙 MBK Brush Jar – cleaning jar with metal insert
The game-changer for your workbench
- Metal sieve protects tips – no contact with the glass bottom.
- Tight lid with rubber ring – solvent doesn’t evaporate and stays usable longer.
- Clean hands: no direct contact with aggressive cleaners.
- Efficient: ideal for rinsing after enamel washes, oil-paint details, or lacquer residues. Also suitable for acrylics – simply mix water with a little soap.
🧴 MBK Brush Shampoo – gentle care (50 ml)
Like wellness for your modeling brushes
- Thorough yet gentle on fibers – perfect after acrylics, pigment binders, and varnishes.
- Suitable for synthetic & natural hair, from 10/0 liners to flat brushes for drybrushing.
- Easy to dose: add to water or apply directly – ideal for routine care.
- Keeps elasticity for fine lines on figures, cockpit details, and antennas.
🧼 MBK Brush Soap – classic glycerin-based (100 ml)
Thorough deep cleaning for stubborn paint residues
- Also dissolves enamel/oil residues after streaking, filtering, or dot weathering.
- Conditions & re-oils – preserves spring, important for natural hair.
- Economical, solid tin – ideal for the workbench and when traveling to competitions.
- Gentle on bristles – extends the lifespan of your favorite brushes.
Application – step by step
| Product | Preparation | Care | Aftercare | Optional |
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🔎 Which product suits you?
| Product | Ideal for … | Special feature | Format | Link |
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| MBK Brush Jar | Solvents & thorough cleaning | Protects tips, saves solvent | Glass with metal insert | Product page |
| MBK Brush Shampoo (50 ml) | Regular, gentle care | Easy to dose, gentle on fibers | Liquid | Product page |
| MBK Brush Soap (100 ml) | Deep cleaning & care | Glycerin-based, re-oils | Solid soap in a tin | Product page |
The perfect trio: Jar + Shampoo + Soap
Everything you need for clean, elastic, and long-lasting brushes – compact, well-designed, MBK.
Brush care in modeling – practice & avoiding mistakes
Clean brushes are the foundation for sharp demarcation lines, precise pin washes, and fine highlights on figures, vehicles, aircraft, ships, and dioramas. After acrylics, lukewarm water with MBK Brush Shampoo is often sufficient to keep the tip elastic and lines crisp. For enamel washes, oil paints, or lacquer residues, first rinse in the MBK Brush Jar with a suitable thinner; the metal sieve prevents the tip from suffering on the glass bottom.
Afterwards, the MBK Brush Soap with a glycerin base provides deep cleaning – it dissolves stubborn residues right into the ferrule and gently re-conditions the hairs.
Common mistakes are easy to avoid: never use hot water so the glue in the ferrule doesn’t soften and the bristles don’t splay. Always use the appropriate cleaning medium – water will not remove oil/enamel residues.
Never dry brushes with the tip pointing up; shape the tip and let the brush dry lying flat or with the tip pointing down. This keeps your detail, liner, and flat brushes permanently stable in shape – for clean panel lines, consistent filters, controlled drybrushing, and delicate figure details.
Pro tips
- Never use hot water:
High temperatures dissolve glue in the ferrule and deform fibers. - Dry with the tip pointing down:
Prevents water from running into the ferrule and swelling wooden handles. - No force:
Do not bend or twist – gently press out instead of wringing. - Correct order:
Rough cleaning in the brush jar → shampoo for the fibers → brush soap for deep care. - Storage:
Dry, dust-free, and with shaped tip; ideally in a brush roll or standing with the tip pointing up. - Think product-specific:
Acrylics mostly with water/shampoo, oils first in the brush jar with a suitable solvent. - Keep brushes separate:
Use separate brushes for acrylics, enamel/oil, and pigments – prevents residue and protects the bristles.
