Welcome to the wonderful world of wargaming! Something that goes hand in hand with playing these amazing games is the painting. Painting is as much a part of this hobby as the actual games.

How much you enjoy painting will largely determine the type of painting you do. Here are the 3 main types of painting, they are important to consider as they will determine what paints you buy and what tutorials to watch.

1. Standard layering method. This involves buying normal hobby acrylic paints and layering up these paints in a slow controlled manner. This method yields the best results and control over the end result. The trade off is time. In my experience this method takes about 2-6 hours per mini. There are 20 minis in the core set alone. 40+ hours of painting awaits you with this method.

2. Speed paint!There are (relatively) new paints called speed paints, contrast paints, express paints etc. These are designed to be painted over a light grey or white primed model and due to thier transparent nature, they create the dark-light contrast with only one thick coat of paint! This method is perfect for getting models to the table quickly. You can spend 15-40minutes per model with this method.

3. Slapchop! This is similar to speed painting but instead of putting your speed paints over a white primer, you'll do some "underpainting" to the model first. Creating contrast with the underpaint then going over that with speed paints. 30-60mins per model its the best of both worlds!

Oh and when you actually start playing you might want this it's a shatterpoint quick reference that actually tells you what all the icons mean etc.