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Ima be honest, oil paint. All the issues acrylics have are solved with oils. Mess up that line? It's cool it wipes off without affecting the acrylics below. White acrylics are horrible at covering? Oils are the opposite. White is super easy to cover with. Oils are the best.

Check this beginners guide on YouTube

https://youtu.be/x_pxojd7kp8

I don't agree QAR. Oils were easier to learn than acrylics for me. Though I suppose your mileage may vary. My only irritation with them is I'm an idiot and I touch wet paint.

 Vulcan wrote:
That's what makes it a steep learning curve. Oil paints take forever to dry. This is great for wet-blending; not so good for speed-painting.

It's the opposite about speed painting. You should check out Marco Frisoni... I've learned his tricks on Oils and I can paint professional looking minis in a couple hours. but yeah you have to use a heated enclosure to cure the oil paint quicker.

 Vulcan wrote:

 Freya wrote:

 Vulcan wrote:
That's what makes it a steep learning curve. Oil paints take forever to dry. This is great for wet-blending; not so good for speed-painting.

It's the opposite about speed painting. You should check out Marco Frisoni... I've learned his tricks on Oils and I can paint professional looking minis in a couple hours. but yeah you have to use a heated enclosure to cure the oil paint quicker.

And how many of us hobby painters have a heated enclosure handy? On top of having the extra ventilation to use oils and turpentine safely?

Yes, it's a great tool in the toolbox, but a bit more effort than acrylics.

All it takes is a cigar box and a little bit of time to make.

It's actually a lot less effort than acrylics. But you're welcome to feel how you want about it. Having actually used them with a great deal of success, I clearly have my opinions about them. And I don't use ventilated areas for odorless white spirits. It's just not necessary. Avoiding putting cadmium based paint in your mouth however, is.

Eh they aren't for everyone. It's certainly prohibitive to start with unless you are seriously incorporating them a lot on your art so your opinion is very valid.

1thickcoat wrote:

 Freya wrote:
Eh they aren't for everyone. It's certainly prohibitive to start with unless you are seriously incorporating them a lot on your art so your opinion is very valid.

Washes are the easy entry point. A small tube of paint and some odourless white spirit and you’re away.

That's how I started. I have shakey hands so the idea of the paint automatically filling all gaps with any splash over or mistakes easy to fix? Sign me up!

Then it was enamels and washes for grimdark... then and only then did I completely destroy a couple models before getting the hang of them as a primary color source.