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Reply To: Advice on starter painting sets (& brushes)

January 5, 2020 at 4:59 pm #1468620

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I can recommend Reaper Learn to paint kits:

https://www.reapermini.com/search/learn%20to/latest/08906

Where you get both a basic set of paint colours, two useful brushes and some minis to practice on, together with a well written how to paint guide.

I use several brands of paints, and the Reaper line of paints are amongst the better paints for miniatures available, and not all that expensive.

For brushes, I mainly use cheap white nylon or taklon brushes bought in bulk off ebay. sizes 00 is usually the smallest you will need, and size 2 is usually the largest for most models. A general tip is to use as large a brush as you can, and keep the small ones for the smalles details only.

I find the white nylons have a rigidity-to-bendiness /springyness or whatever you might call it that suits my style of painting well.