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?
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.) 🙌🏼