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So i've been a long time fluff fan, and played a lot of the PC games. I've played the board game maybe once before. I've always wanted to start painting and modeling, and i recently have the means to afford it, and think it would be a lot of fun. (playing too, once i get experience making models)

I'm sure this knowledge is commonplace to most of you, but i've heard (as a lot of products direct from GW are) that GW's modeling supplies (some of them) are a tad overpriced, and some innefective. Can anyone give me a good list of things i would need, or some specific product recommendations?

I probably would play IG or Chaos, mostly infantry based armies.

Again, thanks for any tips and looking forward to gettin into this.

Hello , have you tried looking at army painter, I have some of their brushes, but I hadn't had the chance to use them yet. So I'm not sure how quality they are. They have modelling stuff too, but I haven't tried it myself.

What you would probably need:

Brushes
Plastic glue(Of course, for plastic)
Super Glue(For Finecast or metal, but now of days it's mostly for the former)
Some kind of Primer(Be careful not to spray too much onto your models, I ruined some wraithguard that way -_-)
An exacto blade or hobby knife(to cut off mold lines and flash)
Pliers(The easiest way to take parts off the sprue, unless someone has another way of doing it)

Can't think of anything else. And just a tip, I've heard from more than one forum that washing your sprues(or parts from sprue), need to be washed in warm soapy water before hand, some chemical agent in the molding process can really mess up your painting .

Not sure if you wanted to know that , but just in case you wanted to know .

 Mithami wrote:

Can't think of anything else. And just a tip, I've heard from more than one forum that washing your sprues(or parts from sprue), need to be washed in warm soapy water before hand, some chemical agent in the molding process can really mess up your painting .

That's with resin, not with plastic, as far as I know. I myself use a file to get those mold lines away.

Anyways, welcome to dakka. If you decide to go with guard, I can give you some advice

Hello and welcome to Dakka Dakka!

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 Mithami wrote:

Can't think of anything else. And just a tip, I've heard from more than one forum that washing your sprues(or parts from sprue), need to be washed in warm soapy water before hand, some chemical agent in the molding process can really mess up your painting .

That's with resin, not with plastic, as far as I know. I myself use a file to get those mold lines away.

Anyways, welcome to dakka. If you decide to go with guard, I can give you some advice

Hey i appreciate that a lot, i'll hit you up if i go IG, i think im leaning towards chaos, or towards converting IG (and playing with IG rules) into a Traitor guard regiment, that sounds pretty fun.
But i'll start small im sure, lol.

I'd recommend a thing of pinesol to put your models in in the event of too much primer/bad paint job.

Wargames factory greatcoat shock troopers are ridiculously cheap (18 for $20) I use them as platoons in my imperial guard. Ebay is a great source for cheap gw models. My favorite ebay seller, abbad0n sells new in box gw minis for less than almost anywhere else.

 psychadelicmime wrote:
I'd recommend a thing of pinesol to put your models in in the event of too much primer/bad paint job.

Wargames factory greatcoat shock troopers are ridiculously cheap (18 for $20) I use them as platoons in my imperial guard. Ebay is a great source for cheap gw models. My favorite ebay seller, abbad0n sells new in box gw minis for less than almost anywhere else.

THAT is exactly the type of thing i would love to start with. Cheap models that i can experiment colors and technique on. The pinesol tip is a good one, i'de rather not buy models every time i feth up. I'm going to check those out now and probably order a batch. I looked into the Extras that come with those models, the daggers and "old" guns would look great on a squad of fod-cultists.

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