#1 Skitarii

 

This was the very first mini I painted: an Alpha of the Skitarii Vanguard. At this point I already spent a couple months watching mini painting tutorials on Youtube and I just walked in a local store and asked the guys to help me put together a starting kit. I left the store with a box of 10 Skitarii, a box of 5 Sicarians (they looked a bit intimidating at first so they had to wait a few weeks) some brushes and all the paints needed to paint the two boxes.

Actually I painted four minis simultaneously but every time I moved on the a new part I started with this one, so this is in every sense the "first".

Before I started I read an advice somewhere about your first mini: Keep it! Don't throw it away, don't give it away, and don't ever repaint it. It should always be there to compare so that you can see how far you've come.

We'll this is how it turned out. It's not nice for sure, but it's a baseline. Actually I was quite pleased with the results. I could see many mistakes, even back then: the botchy painting, the complete lack of shading on the cape, and the general sloppiness, but all in all, it was looking less ugly than I expected. 

At least it's a start and it looks much better from an arm's length than on the photos :)

I wasn't too familiar with the lore (and I'm still not) so I probably also made some mistakes when choosing the colors for the equipment as for some parts it was impossible to figure out what was what.

Paints

Vallejo

• Saddle Brown
• Vermillion
• Liquid Copper
• Black
• Gloss White
• Deep Sky Blue
• Natural Steel

Citadel

• Nuln Oil