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Salutations from a complete novice. What's your recommendations to get started? (kbin.social)
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Salutations from a complete novice. What's your recommendations to get started?

Note: A FLGS in town actually has a mini-painting workstation that you can use for $5/session, or as part of their monthly subscription for playing TTRPGs onsite. Since I play PF2E there several times a week I have that subscription. So I have a place to paint that's already kitted out with just about anything you could need for mini-painting. (I think they charge extra if you want to add stuff like grass, sand, etc. to the mini, but the primer, paints, sealers, etc. are all included.)

I have two awesome minis arriving soon that are unpainted, so I'm looking for online sites/videos that start from "I know nothing" and work up from there.

Thanks in advance for any and all guidance you can provide!

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[โ€“] ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome! Others have posted some great tips so I'll only throw in a few.

As a beginner I'd recommend just using contrast paints for now, particularly if you have access to a to of them at your FLGS. Contrast paints (or speed paints, different brands call them different things) are basically pre-thinned and my experience is that they're a great way to get used to how paint is meant to move on a model and how to fill in spaces. There are a ton of "slapchop" videos on Facebook which is a painting approach that uses speed paints.

Once you're happy with this you can move on to thinning and mixing your own colours, and throwing in stuff like edge highlights.

Also - don't throw away or strip your first mini once it's done! Keep it and compare back to it as you improve.

[โ€“] ScrivenerX@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'll agree that contrast/speed paints are good jumping on point.

And I say never strip a model. See your progress, enjoy how far you've come.