#Help For An Absolute Beginner On The Repainting Path

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dreamy cosmos
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Hello everybody! My name is Cat and I'm looking to get into Mini-painting... but in a slightly weird way.
You see one of my local shops has a lot of Heroclix for sale, and I thought that repainting these figures would be a create way to create a lot of unique minis for D&D, especially if I used a lot of the more generic or obsucre ones (such as the Lex Corp Battlesuit Figure)

The thing is... I have never done mini-painting before in my life, let alone either painting over an already existing color palette or stripping paint to make a figure blank. And every guide I find is either about painting OR stripping (with the idea that you already know how to paint). So finding a starting point has been a bit rough.

If anyone has any good guides for this purpose or any advice, please let me know.

[TL;DR What paints should a beginner buy who is looking to strip and repaint figures, and what would they need to strip the paint OR apply paint that completely covers old paint]

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lean saddle
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My recommendation would be not to strip. Stripping has its own fuss involved, and you can instead apply a thin layer of primer over the miniatures and start from scratch. As for which paints to buy, there are so many options.

Any newer paints from a popular manufacturer like Vallejo, Pro Acryl, Army Painter, AK, etc will be great as long as they're made for miniatures

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But yeah, no need to strip usually, just apply some primer, airbrush is ideal, but spray cans work just fine, and paint over

dreamy cosmos
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(And like a 0.1 color difference)

lean saddle
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Uh i think it's just newer vs older? I'm honestly not sure but I can tell you both of those will work through an airbrush for what you want. Now, do you have an airbrush?

dreamy cosmos
lean saddle
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It will, but there's brush-on primer that's more built for that purpose. That stuff should work too, but if you're brushing on, I believe people recommend Monument Hobbies brush on primer for thar