Everything's at least been base coated now and is ready for the small details. He should be finished very soon.
Now for the main point of this post... Around February 20ish 2011 I decided that I wanted to paint some figures that came with the board game Wiz-War. I had never painted anything before so I really had no idea what I was doing. I tried looking things up online, but said fuck it and jumped right in. I went to a craft store, picked up some really crappy size 0 synthetic brushes, only the cheapest would do, and a Reeves acrylic paint starter set. The paint set didn't come with a brown, flesh color, orange, purple or grey so I had to mix those myself. I also didn't know about thinning your paints, things got pretty sloppy. So now, on the 5th anniversary of my starting to paint I'll show you the first things I ever put a brush too:
On the monsters you may notice some very dark brown in the recesses, before started them I had learned about dipping. However, the only varnish I had was about 20 years old and no longer good, but I used it anyway. The results speak for themselves.
About a month later I got another game with minis, Dungeon Run, and wanted to paint them too. By this time I learned that you should thin your paints. I also learned about washes, but I didn't have any so I just thinned down some black paint and went with it. I still didn't have all the colors I mentioned above, but I did pick up my first metallic paints, a gold and silver.
By May of 2011 I decided I wanted to get into wargaming, half because I wanted to play and half because all the things I could paint. I bought an Army Painter starter set, finally got some brown, orange, purple, flesh and washes, and Assault on Black Reach. The first thing I painted was the Dreadnought:
And that was the start of my new hobby.
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