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Thinking of getting into warhammer, which paints should I get for Skaven? (self.warhammer)

submitted 9 months ago by krow to c/warhammer

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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?

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[–] krow 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] littlebluespark 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.) 🙌🏼