I’m new to warhammer and do not own any paints, since I’ve been playing Total War Warhammer 2, I’ve enjoyed playing as the skaven so I was hoping to get the vanguard skaven miniatures, however I do not have the book that would tell me which paints to get. Which paints will I want for the skaven? And are there any cheap alternative paints that might also work well?
I suggest starting by downloading the citadel app and looking at the paint lists they have suggested for some of the models within the app.
If you have not yet bought into citadel paints you may want to avoid them because their containers area largely considered the worst in the industry. The plus side to citadel paints however is the quality of the paint, and the colors in the app matching the names of their paints.
I prefer Vallejo paints personally, but my entire collection of paint currently is Citadel.
Army painter is good, but I feel i need more paint to get the same coverage as with citadel.
Army painter has a line called Speed paints, similar to Citadel’s contrast paint. I haber yet to use Speed Paints, but I hear they are really good.
Lastly, do not be afraid to paint and make mistakes. You can easily remove paint from a miniature with a soak in some 90+% Isopropyl alcohol, then you can start again.
ok I ended up ordering some vallejo paints, one of my friends gave me a handy looking guide https://redgrimm.github.io/paint-conversion/ also ended up getting some citadel paints and shaders (guy at the melbourne warhammer store was quite the salesman)
looking forward to trying the paints out, will probably post how it turns out, mostly worried I’ll mess up with getting the model out of the spline and accidentally cutting something off :^) wish me luck!
Honestly? I’ve been painting since enamel was the default, and I gotta say: nearly everyone who’s trying to sell you paint pots is simply repackaging tube paints. With the advent of the internet, there is a wealth of both text and video tutorials on simple color theory training, to the point that a single weekend of goofing off and making mistakes can train you to a commanding point of expertise in not only saving money by buying acrylic tubes of paint, but also avoiding the other BS of “speed paints” (eg. OG mixes of acrylic + flow medium + veg glycerin; look it up) and “texture” putties, etc. (literally dirt + paint, FFS).
Feel free to DM if you want links, etc. This hobby is about agency and education, not paying corpos their fucking troll toll. 🤘🏼
I mostly don’t trust myself too much with mixing colours since I’ve got a little bit of a red green colour blindness, heck didn’t realise the skaven plague priest I was planning to paint was wearing a green cloak! thought it was a white cloak this whole time until the store clerk at the warhammer shop told me otherwise. will try to figure out some of the basic shades for other colours though
To be fair, you might be better off without premixed then, and making your own dropper bottles, with labels stating their color ratio so you’d know at a glance how many steps apart each was from its chromatic neighbors. My sibling is blue-green colorblind and it kept them from their dream of a pro pilot career, but that’s on the FAA. I know that, if there were a way to fly-by-number, they would 🤪 (jk, that’s crazy dangerous, but my point is: you can totally do this with your own system and a little prep work.) 🙌🏼
