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Painting guide for Battle for the Wellspring unpainted miniatures?

Hi all,

Just received my set of BftW today (unpainted).

Does anybody know if there is any sort of official (or unofficial) paint guide to make these guys look as legit and canon as possible? Or, does anyone have pictures they can share if they have painted this set yet?

Wanted to order some hobby paint offline as well to get these guys done up. Does anybody have any suggestions for a decent kit that can tackle the colors needed for these guys?

Thanks!
 
On Renegade's HeroScape website, they have a LARGE PDF with detailed paint guides for each released mini. Giant PDF HeroScape figure painting color guide These paint guides can also be found in the individual unit bios for each figure. The codes are Pantone color codes, so far I haven't looked around to see if there are any charts that match Pantone codes to specific branded paint lines.

Renegade has a link to the Army Painter website, and they have several lines. Warpaints Fanatic is their new general-purpose line (launched at the beginning of 2023?). Speedpaint 2.0 has a base color, shade and highlight in one bottle. Warpaints Air are for airbrushes. There are some branded D&D paint sets, as well. Speedpaints might be easier for someone just jumping into the hobby. This is Army Painter's How to start painting booklet, it has a lot of tips.

I think you'd need to prime the minis first, before you start painting. I don't think paint will adhere to them out of the box...
 
On Renegade's HeroScape website, they have a LARGE PDF with detailed paint guides for each released mini. Giant PDF HeroScape figure painting color guide These paint guides can also be found in the individual unit bios for each figure. The codes are Pantone color codes, so far I haven't looked around to see if there are any charts that match Pantone codes to specific branded paint lines.

Renegade has a link to the Army Painter website, and they have several lines. Warpaints Fanatic is their new general-purpose line (launched at the beginning of 2023?). Speedpaint 2.0 has a base color, shade and highlight in one bottle. Warpaints Air are for airbrushes. There are some branded D&D paint sets, as well. Speedpaints might be easier for someone just jumping into the hobby. This is Army Painter's How to start painting booklet, it has a lot of tips.

I think you'd need to prime the minis first, before you start painting. I don't think paint will adhere to them out of the box...
Thanks for the link to the big PDF! I hadn't seen that yet. It's certainly a lot more convenient than having to download all of the individual files...
 
The codes are Pantone color codes, so far I haven't looked around to see if there are any charts that match Pantone codes to specific branded paint lines.
I haven't found charts matching Pantone colors to miniature paint brands, although I have found a number of paint conversion tables and utilities -- Reaper Miniatures Power Palette (match an image to Reaper colors), Miniature Paint Color Matcher, Paint Conversion, and Paint Color Comparison Chart. Myperfectcolor.com has a wide assortment of color matches by brand, including one for matching Pantone colors, but it doesn't include any of the miniature paint brands, and is geared around selling their Hedrix line of acrylic enamels matched to other brands' colors, not showing conversions between brands. DNSchecker.org has a CMYK to Pantone convertor, so you can sample screenshots of a company's color reference chart, although that can get tedious. Codebeautify.org has an RGB to Pantone convertor and a CMYK to Pantone convertor, although those have the same issues of manual lookups; they also have a Pantone to RGB convertor.

There are a number of other paint conversion charts and tables, but the ones I found are all more than five years old, so they'd be out of date with regard to recent brand updates.
 
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