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!