Reply To: First ever paints.

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For first ever paints they’re pretty good!

As to what’s next, that depends on what you want. You never finish painting a miniature, there’s always something else that could be done to improve it. The trick is learning when it is good enough for you. For rank and file troops that probably comes a lot sooner than with hero minis, but depends entirely on you and your priorities 🙂

When I got back into the hobby a few years ago I followed a lot of online tutorials, step by step, to learn as many techniques as possible (or at least start to learn and be aware of them), from wet blending to wet palettes, via sponge blending and  stippling. Then there’s the art of basing (which I still don’t do very well) and colour wheels. For me it was all about filling my tool box with as many options as possible. (I’ve said before, but there really needs to be a mini’s painting wiki or something that gives a high level explanation of the myriad of terms & techniques in the hobby)

And ultimately it comes down to the question…what do you enjoy painting/doing most? Personally I’m all about creatures and daemons (vehicles and armour have too many straight edges to highlight for my tastes!) , I’ve a friend that paints nothing but terrain (much to his wife’s despair due to the space it takes up). Or are you more interested in the gaming side so taking your painting up a level isn’t a priority? Find what you enjoy most, and keep doing it.

That’s the joy of this hobby, there’s no wrong answers (no matter what some people will undoubtedly say!).