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?

  • neco arc@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 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

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      5 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.) 🙌🏼