The Army Painter | Wargames Hobby Starter Paint Set | 10 Acrylic Paints in 18ml Dropper Bottles and 1 Starter Brush | Perfect for Beginners in Wargames Miniature Painting and Modelling, Tabletop

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Miniature painting is an amazing hobby enjoyed by millions around the World. A strong community, an shallow learning curve with high reward, and low barrier to entry make the the miniature painting hobby fantastic for anyone age 2-200. If you’re on a limited budget, the essential miniature painting triad also helps you focus how you spend your money wisely. Get the best paint and brushes you can afford, then work up to other helpful supplies (see below). The same is true with cans I suppose, but the smell is enough to put most people off using them inside the home. Beyond that, the width of overspray on a can is the second thing that would put you off. With an airbrush, it’s a very direct, small light spray. so long as you have a decent-sized box, you can use your airbrush at your desk. (but get a mask too so you aren’t breathing in the atomised paint) The 0.4mm needle is perfectly tapered for you to spray tiny highlights to tank basecoats, or anything in between. Maybe you’re really into dungeon-crawling board games like HeroQuest, Zombicide, Gloomhaven, or Descent: Legends of the Dark. Maybe you’re more into strategy games, like Scythe or Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition. Or maybe you’re curious about more freeform miniatures skirmish games, like Star Wars: Legion, Marvel Crisis Protocol, Necromunda, or Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team. Wherever your interests lie, start with a game or a universe you really enjoy and that bit of passion you feel in your gut will help to get you across the finish line with your first batch of painted minis.

This cleaner will pull away bad paint and lubricate the mechanism. Just rinse out most of your unfinished paint with water first and use the cleaner to finish it off and get it squeaky. Sometimes you can’t quite find the right color at the local shop, and you can’t wait for it to ship from an online retailer. That’s when you need to consider using a different brand of paint. The chart linked below can help you find compatible colors across multiple ranges.Our 18ml bottles are more than the competition that sells14ml - 17ml. We wanted to make sure you got more paint per bottle. Sanding twigs like these are less than a quarter-inch across, and can easily bend around most shapes. GREAT GIFT FOR NOVICE ARTISTS AND VETERAN PAINTERS — This model paint set is a great birthday present or gift for any occasions for beginners who just got into the hobby of miniature painting and for advanced painters who need to replenish the basic colours for their already existing paints set You can make your own Airbrush cleaner using Isopropanol and other chemicals/fluid. I’ve not done that yet but there are Youtube for guides on this. Airbrush Primer If the airbrush has analogue levels of control, you can just crank your compressor up to 60 PSI (4 Bar) or higher and just control airflow with the trigger.

It’s made of aluminium, so it weighs next to nothing. Many people say they prefer a weightier Airbrush as it feels like you have a good solid object in your hand. OK, fair. But I like not having RSI pains in my wrist. Your call. You don’t need premium colors when you start miniature painting — but having the best colors certainly doesn’t do any harm. Vallejo’s Basic Colors Set brings you top-shelf miniature paints at a ridiculously good value . An airbrush compressor without a tank. These units are fairly common and this was what I started with, When I bought it I even called up a local airbrush company and asked if I needed the tank for painting models. They advised not which saved me maybe 10%-15% of the outlay cost over 1 with a tank (below). After years of experience with it can now safely say, they were wrong, I should have squeezed out that little extra out of my wallet for the version with the tank.

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Now we’ve looked at what not to do, let’s look at an actual consideration, and it may surprise you that this is cheaper than the previous option (in the case of the first one above). or at least equally priced to the second one shown above. You need only a small amount of paint to produce vivid, smooth colors, so the bottles last for a long time . The colors work perfectly with every painting technique, from base layering to edge highlighting and drybrushing. They feel cheap, the airbrush is trash, they are heavy, their charge doesn’t last very long and the pressure is rather poor.