Painting tips

[torn hedge]

Hey y'all.
So I'm looking for some good brands of acrylic paint to start paint my collection minifigs, any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

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[meager wraith]

Are you planning to hand paint, airbrush or use spray cans?

[white tide]

1 - SO MANY youtubes on painting mini figs and they all recomend paint choices.
2 - Walk in to your local hobby shop or war game figure shop. It does you no ood if you're in Brazil and some guy in Sweden recommends "Squankadonk" brand paint you can't get.
Its acryllic - so not a massive difference in most of them. Check out Barbados Red on YouTube. He reviews LOTS of paints and then tells you how easy it is to thin down the regular discount store tubes of paint for airbrush. So there's lots of directions you can go.

If all else fails, the model and RC shops should have you covered. ANd 99% of the time is Vallejo that you can get on Amazon

[desert tulip]

Are the minis out of abs or asa? Pla doesnt like acrylic paint

[white tide]

Does that really matter once you spray prime them? At that point you're not painting the plastic, you're painting primer

[desert tulip]

If the primer uses acetone as solvent it might be problematik. I did a lot of testing to find a solvent for vaporsmoothing pla thats not tetrahydrofuran because its teratogenic. The acetone test showed only a mild discoloration till 5 days after drying the prints fell apart a long the layerlines.

Like perfectly along them

[torn hedge]

Well they mostly are small minifigs so hand painted

[torn hedge]

1 - those so many youtubers all give the same method, other people may have something different so no need to come over that aggressive

[meager wraith]

You could use any acrylics, Vallejo and citadel are good brands for small figures.
Take a look at games workshop as they normally sell paints specific for warhammer models.

[white tide]

"Aggressive"? Wow. Now listing 4 different resources, naming good channels to check out, store recommendations to walk in and visit and just simple plain conversing is 'aggressive' ?
Y'all make it really hard to be helpful. Responses like this make a person apprehensive to even speak up.

[torn hedge]

In your message you really came over aggressively, you made it look like I am too lazy to check online or too lazy to check out some shops (which I both did)
And i didn't say you were being aggressive, i was saying that it came over aggressive

[white tide]

I think you're reading WAY TOO MUCH into about 5 words of text on a screen. I'm sorry if other people pick on you... if your parents call you lazy or whatever else you think is going on... but I didn't call you lazy... I didn't call you anything. I pointed you at some resources. Anything else is you, not me.