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Certain armies are easier to paint and have less detail than others is a good starting point to keep in mind. Depending on how high quality you want your models to look after painting, certain armies also look good with basic colors. Are you set on marines or are you undecided.

>>225533

>>225536

Sure they are cliche but I think Space Marine could be up your alley. They are a favorite of newbies not just because of marketing but because of their wide surface. A rather simple marine color scheme might be something doable for you.

Alternate option: necrons, painting the old fashionned way, which is to say mostly plain metallic colors and neon green.

>>225542

I was actually going to suggest necrons as well just because they look decent with a basic coat of any metal.

Crons and Astartes are your go-to for easy painting, and both have the benefit of being on the strong side. If you really don't think you can handle it or want to play an army that needs more precision to paint, look around on ebay for options.

Just wait another year or two, GeeDubs is bound to start selling pre-painted minis.

Also, you are actually in no way required to paint your plastic crack to play with it. Anyone who disagrees with this is not only obviously on the Spectrum, but also a Citadel shi–BLAM!

>>225533

If you don't consider painting the army part of the fun or it's too distressing, consider to use a good painting service. You can get your army painted on commission with a good level. So you can enjoy the game, having a nice army and don't get subject to the issue of painting the army yourself.

>>225533

Play chaos gate or final liberation

> Also newbie recommendations in general would be appreciated!

The new Start Collecting boxes are excellent value for money and they come with a rules card to field everything in it as a single formation. I don't know how well the rest add up, but the Tau box at least can be made into a 500 point force, which is the smallest standard size. They'd also be a great choice to buy for an allied force if you ever felt like trying out a different army once your main has grown a bit.

If you can find someone to build your models for you, ask if they can magnetise some of them them. In a squad of Tactical Marines, you'd only need three to be magnetised (One for a special weapon, one for a heavy weapon, one for sergeant equipment), since the rest are only going to be using bolters. Then you can swap equipment around as you desire, instead of having options glued permanently to your men.

(I don't know how bad your EDS is, but I presume it's not going to be easy for you to carefully drill holes into little plastic models and then superglue tiny magnets into them the right way, which is why I suggested finding someone else to do it)

When building, think about how easily you're going to be able to paint your dudes. If you glue a gun into someone's hands and it's held tightly to the chest, you're then going to have difficulty painting that chest, so leave some parts unassembled before painting.

Get a Helping Hand for painting. It's a little metal stand with some clips to hold your parts. Useful for anyone, invaluable I'm sure for someone with a disability.

Make a wet pallet for your paints. I use a disposable plastic plate with a couple of sheets of wet paper towels in it, then a sheet of wax paper on top. The water very slowly seeps through the wax paper, keeping your paint from drying out as you work.

Vallejo Game Color paints are great. They come in dropper bottles, so they aren't going to dry out on you.

>>225637

Correcting myself there about the Tactical Marines. Obviously if you run one full squad of ten, you'll only need three magnetised. But if you wanted to split them into two squads of five, then you'll probably need more. I'm sure if you find someone who's done this before, he can figure it out for you.

Is that you zamii?

They literally just put out a new starter painting set on preorder. 3 new snapfit marines (looks way better than the old ones too) and ultrasmurf paints. If you don't want to paint smurfs, you could just add in a couple of other paints for the main armour colour.

Try out these to see how well the painting goes, then buy some more.

>>225642

I don't know, most of the time you probably won't be swapping tactical loadouts that much. The Sarges are pretty much always best cheap and naked, apart form maybe a combi gun. For special weapons, You'll likely want to save the gravguns, meltas and flamers for more mobile units like bikes and droppod Sternguard, so it's probably safe enough to just make plasma. For Heavy weapons, you're better off without them most of the time, they're better for devastators anyway.

If you decide to continue though, it might be a good idea to magnetise Devastators and Sternguard though.

For simple color scheme ala necron/tyranid armies you can:

Base/primary spray, no motor control required.

Wash whole model with darker color, no motor control required.

Drybrush highlights, requires zero motor control so long as you get 95% of the paint off the brush and go at it for 10 minutes.

Congratulation you have a tournament pass army.

>>225533

hotwheelz fix your site plz

>>225710

You forgot the part about having to scrounge Ebay and fleeting recasters to actually get Epic models ;__;

>>225533

As an accupational therapist who also loves his minis my suggestion would be to go see one, specifically with the goal of painting, with the possibilty of modifying paint stations (seating, vices, easy reach etc.) or brushes to help you get better control for painting tasks. Moreover get fellow fa/tg/uys to help you with task analysis for painting to see which aspects of the task need to be modified in order for you to be able to complete them (which is good cause apart from the occasional dickhead most of /tg/ likes getting shit done in regards to gaming). Obviously finding someone to do said modifications and funding them are another issue but if brainstormed properly (mods, grips for paintbrushes, best minitures to start painting on to develope skills etc.) I dont see it being to much of a hassle.