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?

  • littleblue✨
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    210 months ago

    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. 🤘🏼

    • neco arcOP
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      110 months ago

      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

      • littleblue✨
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        10 months ago

        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.) 🙌🏼