Beginning my painting journey

[lucid arrow]

Hi,

I’m brand new to the world of painting miniatures, painting and my knowledge is limited to what I have watched on YouTube and read here.

I am starting my 40k journey with a series of Daemons and have decided I want to go with a “dark star” color scheme, basing this off of league of legends dark star themed skins. I will post pictures for reference. I am not going to delude myself into thinking that these are gonna be AMAZING, but they will be mine and I am gonna try.

So what I need help with it paints to buys. I don’t want to overwhelm myself by literally buying 10-20 different shades of the same color. So I am hoping those that are reading this could help me with what colors I should go buy at my local hobby store. Names would be preferable or at least a number of shades of primary colors?

[forest nacelle]

Hi!
Great you want to try changing things.
This one will be rather tough for even experienced painter especially on an army scale. Good osl make w job here.
I will recommend talking with someone in hobby store, borrow few paints and paint one model.
You will need dark blue, magenta, pink, purple, black and white at minimum.
Additionally I will try to find painted figures and try to copy them rather than copy artworks. Two different things.

[rugged hatch]

A lava or molten painting tutorial could probably be adapted to this. Just sub the reds and oranges for your pinks and purples. It'll take some trial and error test models.

[lucid arrow]

Thank you guys soo much! Any other advice is also welcome. I am just so enthusiastic to get responses ^^

[lapis estuary]

What paints can achieve this effect? Violet magenta orange fluo?