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I want to play Skitaari and Mechanicum, but am nervous about painting them since I don't have much experience painting. They seem to have a lot of small parts on them, are they significantly harder to paint than other armies? Here is a link to the stuff I have painted up, I started about two months ago.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9VF7T1EY44_Y1pZTHhodEFmX3c

It all depends on how detailed you want to go with it. If you just wanna get up to tabletop quality here's some tips I'd give ya:

- Paint all robes black. This way you can prime the models black and just fix robes with black paint afterwards. Why you wanna prime them black is for the next point.

- Don't go fiddly with the metal bits. Some drybrushing with gun metal, washing it with nuln oil then going over with a light dusting of silver works wonders. It's low in effort and looks decent (not great, but decent). Priming black is basically mandatory for this as drybrushed metal looks best over black.

- Ignore the fiddly light paintings and such. Paint wires one color if you do decide to pick them out (I prefer red or green but any bold color would do). Especially that "hazard tape" pattern they have on some of the models in the GW page; that is tedious as hell to paint so completely ignoring that would save you a lot of effort without looking too bad.

- lenses can be picked out in a similar way. A good way to do lenses for me is to paint it with a decent coat of a metalic paint, then giving it a layer of calligraphy ink over it. This ends up giving a shiny finish, which is good for lights at a distance. I use the same trick for plasma gun coils and other things that I need to "glow". (I don't have any pictures because the effect doesn't show up well as a photo). Alternatively, some paintable gloss varnish will achieve a similar effect.

After that just pick out some trim and details in brass and boom, you should be done.

they don't look too much more difficult than most, imo. There's a lot of room for doing a pretty basic scheme, or taking your time and doing a lot of details if you'd rather.

On the table top, really detailed isn't going to really matter that much, so if you do as MechaEmperor suggests, I think you'll be fine.

Plus, you can add a few of the decals to the robes/hoods and what not - that's a lot of detail and it's fairly easy (unless of course you don't have the decals)

Well the good thing about Skitari is you can paint the vast majority of them in Leadbelcher, wash it with nuln oil, and drybrush - and boom, easy metals.
Then when you are more confident with painting? Return to them and pick out the details, cables, pistons etc. There's no need to stress yourself on day one, or write the off as finished.

Do however paint the Rangers with the legs separate. You cannot get underneath on them.

Yup, definitely paint them before sticking the bodies to the legs or you will have a nightmare on your hands.

More importantly, when building them make sure not to mix the bodies and legs up, each leg set goes with a specific robe/body and you will have a very bad time of things if you mix them up before assembly

The best thing to do is just watch some painting tutorials (just find them on GW's website) It doesn't even have to be painting the models you own just look at the techniques they use and things like that.
Also, try using a paint pallet to thin down the paint just a little with some water before putting it on your models, because it looks like you might be using a tad too much on their. Use simple techniques like drybrushing and washing and you can get a tabletop standard without toooo much pain.
Just play the army you want to play, every army has its fiddly bits, and remember that painting is only a part of the hobby. Collect the army you want to play with and then work out the painting bit after.