[1:02] Welcome to Wargaming Recon. I am your host, Jonathan J. Reinhart. I am so excited to welcome you back to a new episode of the podcast. It is 2025, everybody. Here we are, you, me, our friends, and everybody … Continue reading →
[1:02] Welcome to Wargaming Recon. I am your host, Jonathan J. Reinhart. I am so excited to welcome you back to a new episode of the podcast. It is 2025, everybody. Here we are, you, me, our friends, and everybody else here for another calendar year of the podcast. I know we've been away for a while, and we'll talk about that a little bit later in the episode, but I want to dive right in to today's topic. We're going to be talking about some hobby tools that you can get from Foxbite Hobbies. So Foxbite is a small business and they make paintbrushes and painting handles. They had sent us some paintbrushes to review and I had also previously purchased a painting handle that I wanted to go ahead and use.
[1:59] And I just want to let you know all of that. We like to share when we get items for reviews or if there's sponsorships or anything like that kind of stuff. But as you know, if you've been a long time listener, right, that doesn't impact our review, doesn't sway our opinion, but we just like to be open and transparent about these things. So today we're going to be talking about this and we're starting off actually with their painting handle. Now, I know, I know, you're thinking, wait a sec, Jonathan is going to be sharing some ideas and thoughts about a painting handle? A painting handle?
[2:38] Paint brushes what the heck kind of parallel universe is this well I know I feel it too yo the truth is actually that I was testing these for about five months I started streaming on twitch at the end of June 2024 and i was building lego and painting minis yes i was painting the one who never paints who says, I'm never going to paint anything. I was painting minis. So I have used these and I painted for me quite a lot of things in that span of time. For some of you, I know the quantity of stuff that I painted and even the things I painted don't even pale in comparison, but that's okay. I'm running my own race and you should too. So I'm not just drawing these ideas out of thin air. They are actually based in, like I said, about five months of my experience.
[3:33] So let's talk about the painting handle, okay? Now, I have experience with a few different painting handles. I use the original Games Workshop Citadel painting handle. They have since come out with newer ones. They have an assembly handle. They have like an extra large painting handle. They have a regular painting handle. They have a variety, right? But the one that I started off with was a chonky boi, and they don't make that one anymore. I used it way back. I thought it was going to transform my painting and my hobbying. For a while, it was very useful, but it did not transform anything for me. Now, the difference here, first of all, is that if you are someone who's been using the GW one, and you haven't used any other painting handles out there, so like the GW one, it's made out of a very heavy-duty plastic.
[4:22] And it has magnets in the side that kind of clamp together part of the top to hold the mini in place. And clearly it is designed and intended for use with GW minis and on GW bases, right? So if you're not using something like that, it's not going to work as well for you.
[4:42] Now, Foxbite has you covered, in my opinion anyway. Their painting handle, it's made out of wood. It's a nice hard wood. Feels good in the hand it has some heft but it's not heavy it's you don't feel it's not laborious really is what i'm trying to say so as you're holding it right you're holding it and you have your mini on there and you're painting the mini you don't have that kind of fatigue from having something too heavy it is just right so that it feels good and when you move it you're not just going to be accidentally like and go fling it somewhere you know it's in your hand so it feels nice. It has a good finish on it. So it looks nice as well.