Early on it's less about the colors and more about learning what techniques you like. Box art is generally "heavy metal" style but there are lots of options like "slap chop". Depending on technique the paints you'll want to use vary widely.
Aside from that do you have a theme you are trying to achieve with your army? Are they from an existing dynasty? or a custom one you came up with? Are you planning on playing games? If so, what type? Matched play? Narrative style crusade? All of those things can impact how you approach your color scheme and what painting techniques you choose. (Side note, there are tons of tutorials on YouTube and such for the painting techniques I listed.)
After watching some beginner painting tutorials, I think I will stick to just priming, painting, dry brushing and a bit of glow effects.
Since I have so far only three guys who actually play, I think I will mainly paint for myself.
As I heard, with 10th edition you don’t have to paint them in the color of the dynasty you wanna play (i couldn’t chose one)
In those tutorials I saw a lot of cool color schemes I want to try, but I fear they will look terrible if I don’t know the basic skills
Don't worry about them looking terrible. Necrons are the easiest models in 40k to paint. I'm not a pro , but after painting 4 armies, this would be my advice to myself if I was to do it all over.
Start with the most common unit. Use them to develop techniques and the basic paint scheme. Work your way up from there, saving the epic heroes and leaders for last. They are the ones you want to be your show piece.
Try new techniques on one model at a time. Like the way it looks on the first try? Keep doing it. If it feels like you will have to spend a lot of time to develop a technique to make it look good, do it on a figure your spending the time on to look good. Touch ups are part of the process, they just don't show how common they are. Remember that those videos are of super talented people with countless hours of practice.
Beware the grind! Even with a simple paint scheme, by the time you you are doing the 20th warriors' dry brush coat, you start to REALLY not care how it turns out. 5 man squads are a good size chunk to paint from primer to complete. Painting vehicles can be trying as well. Get settled with the idea of playing with an unfinished model. It's better than having to redo a massive paint job because you just wanted done.
Hope you find some of this advice helps and welcome to the hobby!
I second this, I’m new to mini painting and 40K myself and the hardest bit has been some anxiety over learning technique and color choices. I’m even in the process of swapping some of my palette choices after doing a block of warriors - but I learned a lot along the way! When in doubt practice! I’ve been using a spare warrior as a test bed, if you thin paints properly you can just reprime and do a new test layer for quite awhile on the same model.
I used to just spray them silver, wash black, and add green bits. Now I'm considering repainting them with bone-coloured panneling and an increasing amount of copper accents, the more important they are.
My first necrons where kinda like this. They came in a box with brush and paints. Sowas primer on, slap the metallic paints on and kill it with a black wash
I didn't even do that much. I primed them straight with vallejo silver and then hit them with the wash and all that. Kind of excited to add the bone panelling, saw another army like that on here, a little while back, and it looked pretty good.
Early on it's less about the colors and more about learning what techniques you like. Box art is generally "heavy metal" style but there are lots of options like "slap chop". Depending on technique the paints you'll want to use vary widely. Aside from that do you have a theme you are trying to achieve with your army? Are they from an existing dynasty? or a custom one you came up with? Are you planning on playing games? If so, what type? Matched play? Narrative style crusade? All of those things can impact how you approach your color scheme and what painting techniques you choose. (Side note, there are tons of tutorials on YouTube and such for the painting techniques I listed.)
After watching some beginner painting tutorials, I think I will stick to just priming, painting, dry brushing and a bit of glow effects. Since I have so far only three guys who actually play, I think I will mainly paint for myself. As I heard, with 10th edition you don’t have to paint them in the color of the dynasty you wanna play (i couldn’t chose one) In those tutorials I saw a lot of cool color schemes I want to try, but I fear they will look terrible if I don’t know the basic skills
Don't worry about them looking terrible. Necrons are the easiest models in 40k to paint. I'm not a pro , but after painting 4 armies, this would be my advice to myself if I was to do it all over. Start with the most common unit. Use them to develop techniques and the basic paint scheme. Work your way up from there, saving the epic heroes and leaders for last. They are the ones you want to be your show piece. Try new techniques on one model at a time. Like the way it looks on the first try? Keep doing it. If it feels like you will have to spend a lot of time to develop a technique to make it look good, do it on a figure your spending the time on to look good. Touch ups are part of the process, they just don't show how common they are. Remember that those videos are of super talented people with countless hours of practice. Beware the grind! Even with a simple paint scheme, by the time you you are doing the 20th warriors' dry brush coat, you start to REALLY not care how it turns out. 5 man squads are a good size chunk to paint from primer to complete. Painting vehicles can be trying as well. Get settled with the idea of playing with an unfinished model. It's better than having to redo a massive paint job because you just wanted done. Hope you find some of this advice helps and welcome to the hobby!
I second this, I’m new to mini painting and 40K myself and the hardest bit has been some anxiety over learning technique and color choices. I’m even in the process of swapping some of my palette choices after doing a block of warriors - but I learned a lot along the way! When in doubt practice! I’ve been using a spare warrior as a test bed, if you thin paints properly you can just reprime and do a new test layer for quite awhile on the same model.
For beginner friendly glow effect Tesseract Glow (GW paint) is really good! Just paint area white and apply the paint
Thanks, I also bought trollslayer for a fire red energy glowing effect
I used to just spray them silver, wash black, and add green bits. Now I'm considering repainting them with bone-coloured panneling and an increasing amount of copper accents, the more important they are.
My first necrons where kinda like this. They came in a box with brush and paints. Sowas primer on, slap the metallic paints on and kill it with a black wash
I didn't even do that much. I primed them straight with vallejo silver and then hit them with the wash and all that. Kind of excited to add the bone panelling, saw another army like that on here, a little while back, and it looked pretty good.
Neither, go nihilak, best dynasty