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!
This is great advice, thank you. I’m just breaking out of my speed paint phase I think but it’s slow going when the immediate results look worse than before!
I followed a painting guide on Patreon recently and I was surprised at how many layers went on to the model. Prime and grey/white drybrush yes, but then a colour layer and then some more white, and then another set of colour and highlights, and then more white in place over that, and then more layers.
The end result looked better but it was way harder work. I’m gonna keep pushing myself beyond speed paints but they are a useful fallback to get a model that is ‘quite good’ in pretty short order.
It’s a good idea to learn to use regular paints, but don’t throw away your contrast or speedpaints. My favorite way to do leather is to paint the area in the highlight color, then use a dark (black or brown) contrast paint on top to make it look like leather.