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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 206573" data-attributes="member: 463">For some GREAT pre-painted minis to get you started I recommend em4miniatures:<a href="http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/shop.html" target="_blank">http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/shop.html</a>I got their very nicely painted set of 5 Oriental Heroes plus 5 high-quality d20s each colour-coded to one of the minis for £10.99 +£1 p&P in the UK, which seemed wonderful value to me.  They also do prepainted orcs, dwarves & sf minis.  Delivery in the UK took I think 2 days from submitting my order!  They also are distributed in the USA.Re painting supplies:A small (OO) medium (O) and large (1) brush of decent quality.Acrylic paints - I've found my wife's art shop acrylics to be better quality and much much cheaper than my own model shop acrylics (Citadel/Games Workshop & Tamiya), although you may need a flesh tone from a model shop and the most recent GW paints have decent consistency, just horribly expensive.Spray matt black or matt white paint for undercoating - black gives instant shadowing in unpainted areas, good for evil or grubby figs.  I find that plate-armoured figs are best left un-undercoated, just use a black wash to bring out the armour detail and use the minis natural metal colour as the armour colour.  White undercoat gives brighter colours, good for elves & angels, but be careful not to miss any!  Plastic minis don't need undercoating but it can help.Spray Varnish - clear of course, gloss is best to protect but you can add a thin matt coat on top to avoid the  sheen (though I like it).</blockquote>

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