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Im new to all of this, and to be honest, Im trying to find some cheap paints to learn to paint with/ practice. I found some stuff called Reeves Acrylics that's super cheap- 24 12ml paints for like $10. Seems like a good cheap way to get the paints I need to learn- the paint has good reviews. I was just wanting to see if anyone on here had any experience with it. Thanks.

This is a link to the paint if anyone wanted to see it.

http://www.dickblick.com/products/reeves-acrylic-painting-sets/?wmcp=amazon&wmcid=feeds&wmckw=00641-0029#description

There's a reason why it's cheap. It's going to be very thick, and you're going to have to do a fair amount of work with the stuff to get it to the consistency needed for painting minis. Keep in mind that you don't need to rush out and buy an entire paint set. Start off buying just the colors you need for your first unit, and just slowly grow the collection as needed. There's very little point in buying colors you're not going to use. Just an FYI, this stuff is for painting on canvas and is going to cover up details like crazy without super thinning.

Yeah, as Munga stated, those are artists acrylics. They can be used for minis, I've used them over the years, but you'll have to buy matte medium(artist acrylics are glossy) and flow aid to mix with water, to thin them on your pallette. Still, all those tubes for that price screams low quality to me. The last tube of Winsor and Newton cadmium red I bought a few years ago was about $18. Granted, cad red is one of the most expensive colors, but good artist acrylics these days are probably in the $7 or $8 range for most colors. I don't know, it's been 10 or 12 years since I bought any. The stuff does last a long time.

Used them for my acrylic paintings on canvas. Never liked them even when compared to other acrylic paints made for canvas: they dry too quickly, they lump up and it had a glossy finish I didn't want.

If you want cheap acrylic paints you want to use on your minis, try Grumbacher or Liquitex. Both are almost in the same price range. I still use these for large flat panels. They cover pretty well (although not as well as paint made for miniature), and Liquitex is the right kind of viscous. But always remember to thin them, and they're better on areas that has no details and/or bigger models.

You can also try Golden acrylics. They mix a lot of color that would make the new Citadel range blush. Forgot about how thick they are, though.

W&N is top notch, but not cheap.

Here is a color study back then (it's a study! DON'T JUDGE MEEEEE~) using Reeves Acrylics. Granted, it's on a canvas. you can see how glossy it is and thick: I used the dried blobs as uh, artistic texture.

Thanks for all the feedback and advice guys.