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Ok guys so I've been looking at paints lately
And I wanna get some Vallejo paints, but I don't wanna dish out $200 for the big case of 75 paints or however many their are, i know it's alot but can't remember how many off the top of my head.
Is their a smaller set for around $100 that's worth the money? or am I better off ordering them 1 bottle at a time?

Any advice will be welcome, thanks in advance.

(and I play Orks and Daemons so I'll just just about every color so the $200 almost seems worth it to me.) or the $250 with 120 paints or however many. (the one without the case)

Phat13uddha wrote:Ok guys so I've been looking at paints lately
And I wanna get some Vallejo paints, but I don't wanna dish out $200 for the big case of 75 paints or however many their are, i know it's alot but can't remember how many off the top of my head.
Is their a smaller set for around $100 that's worth the money? or am I better off ordering them 1 bottle at a time?

Any advice will be welcome, thanks in advance.

(and I play Orks and Daemons so I'll just just about every color so the $200 almost seems worth it to me.) or the $250 with 120 paints or however many. (the one without the case)

Lucky you :3

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/paint_sets

Take them 1 or 2 Bottles at a Time. That way, you can stay more Focussed with your Painting Efforts, and can also stay Motivated. If you look at 100 Bottles of Paint, you'll be painfully reminded that you've got heaps of work ahead of you. If you set yourself smaller goals, then you can look at your 1 or 2 Bottles of Paint, and know that by the Weekend you'll have achieved your Goal of completing those Colours, and can move on to the next. The Paint Set is appealing, but I wouldn't recommend it. Despite having a Range of Colours you need to use, there are also a ton which you don't. Invest in some White and Black right away, and that way, you won't need to buy Different Shades; you can just Lighten or Darken as you need to. In fact, this gives you even greater versatility than with a Shade Range.

Quite a few sites allow you to mix and match whichever paints you need, usually in sets of 24 and 32. Try maelstrom or snmstuff.

You save a bit of money if you buy the full line paint sets. It isnt worth it to me to do that though, as I know I will never use most of the colors included in the sets.

You may want to look into the Reaper line of paints, one of the nice things that they do is you can get their paint in a Triad, this gives you three different shades of paint for around $7 you get the base color, the highlight color and the wash color of the color paint.

Catyrpelius wrote:You save a bit of money if you buy the full line paint sets. It isnt worth it to me to do that though, as I know I will never use most of the colors included in the sets.

You may want to look into the Reaper line of paints, one of the nice things that they do is you can get their paint in a Triad, this gives you three different shades of paint for around $7 you get the base color, the highlight color and the wash color of the color paint.

This is sound advice. Get the Reaper Set for your Armour Colour, or whatever, and maybe another Extra, Heavily-Used Colour on your Miniatures. Then just buy Individually!

stick with warhammer paints

sluggaslugga wrote:stick with warhammer paints

May i ask why?

LunaHound wrote:

sluggaslugga wrote:stick with warhammer paints

May i ask why?

Exactly! There's no reason not to invest in Vallejo and Reaper.