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My son(13 year old) is started his collections of necrons and I am looking for a recommend list of tools and paint types to start with.

He has no experience with painting. He wants to do a necron frost force.

I am going to help him prime his necrons or should I have him do foundation paint? FYI, children are legally not allowed to use spray paint in his community.

He was thinking of doing a prime black and then base paint blue with a wash of white(frost). I was thinking a base of white would look better.

So what brushes and paints types do you recommend.

Black will make the blue darker which will help make the white pop more.

White will make the blue lighter and brighter which might not help the white wash.

Gray will give you a mixture of both.

Always Prime you models. Doesn't matter whether you spend tons of money using the GW one or one from your local home store. It will help the paint stick to the model longer.

A drybrush of white might work better than a wash. Necrons are pretty easy to deal with for most paint schemes and can probably be done with paint and brushes found at a craft store.

My son's force of necrons are all various metallics done from Krylon's brushed metal range. I understand the legality issue, but I'm sure that it's in place to prevent grafitti and not arts and crafts. If he's supervised by an adult, it shouldn't be a problem to use something like Army Painter's colored primers.

Definately prime.

My son is planning to spray prime with black, then base paint and wash(shading now). What brushes would you recommend him buying to get him started?

Most hobby stores (Michael's, Hobby Lobby) will have a line or two of brushes labeled as "student" or "academic". They'll be fine for a 13 yo, but make sure they're natural bristle, not synthetic. Synthetic is absolutely unsuited for acrylics. No matter how careful you are about cleaning, they will always develop "hook end" or "fork end". Synthetic is pretty much for water colors. I won't give recommendations for size ( 0,00, etc.) as all companies have their own standards for numbering. Look for "round" and make sure it comes to a nice sharp point. Larger for general painting, smaller for details.

depending how much you want to speed things up, you can find spray paint to the equivalent Boltgun Metal coloring at Home Depot for about $3 a can. I highly recommend it, though then you would be priming his models for him. Then he could just wash them, and work on details / secondary coloring. I helped someone do this, honestly their army turned out better then several verterans I know because they really got into scenic basing and working on the details of the models.

However, if you want to teach your son about painting I'd recommend there are some good tips as above.

Ultra Grey wrote:Most hobby stores (Michael's, Hobby Lobby) will have a line or two of brushes labeled as "student" or "academic". They'll be fine for a 13 yo, but make sure they're natural bristle, not synthetic. Synthetic is absolutely unsuited for acrylics. No matter how careful you are about cleaning, they will always develop "hook end" or "fork end". Synthetic is pretty much for water colors. I won't give recommendations for size ( 0,00, etc.) as all companies have their own standards for numbering. Look for "round" and make sure it comes to a nice sharp point. Larger for general painting, smaller for details.

What GWS brushes would you do for what style? For example what brush type would you use for washing(shading)? For base coating? I have bought a lot of brushes and I am stilling new at painting myself. I want to make sure that he starts off right not ruin about 8 brushes from past mistakes I made as a noob with no trainer.

I wouldn't use GWS brushes. They're low quality, high priced. TBH, I couldn't even tell you what they have available these days. Look for Winsor and Newton, or Grumbacher(sp?) like 000 or so for detail, and a 0 for 90% of your painting, including washing.. Again, a size 0 W&N isn't exactly the same as a size 0 DaVinci, but they're close enough, I guess. And you want "round". Look for their more affordable natural hair brushes, and they'll probably be half the price of GWS brushes. And remember, don't be thrown off by a brushes diameter if it looks too big, it's the tip that matters, the rest is reservoir. Also look here or youtube at some painting tuts, and you'll see what these guys are using.