I am currently moving to a portable paint solution, so need to pare down the paints i have at hand, looking at the current paints I use and taking guidance, I have it down to the following essential paints
Base/Air:
- Abaddon Black
- Averland Sunset
- Bugmans Glow
- Caledor Sky
- Caliban Green
- Corvus Black
- Death Guard Green
- Grey Seers
- Kantor Blue
- Leadbelcher
- Mechanicus Standard Grey
- Mephiston Red
- Mornfang brown
- Naggaroth Night
- Retributor Armour
- Rhinox hide
- Screamer Pink
- Steel Legion Drab
- Stegadon Scale Green
- Thousand Sons Blue
- Ulthuan Grey
- Wraithbone
- Zandri Dust
Contrast:
- Blood Angel Red
- Dark Angels Green (Personal Add as i like it over metal)
- Gryph-Hound Orange
- Guilliman Flesh (for eyes)
- Iyanden Yellow
- Skeleton Horde – Additional: used over Leadbelcher as a yellowish metallic
Technical:
- Blood for the Blood God
- Lahmian Medium
- Nihilakh Oxide
- Nurgle’s Rot
- Technical Ardcoat (only if you want a plastic effect for cables)
Shade:
- Agrax Earthshade
- Drakenhof NightShade
- Druchi Violet (if you are doing a lot of Melta effects) or you can use Eiddolon Purple Clear
- Nuln Oil
- Reikland FleshShade
- Seraphim Sepia
Layer:
- Ahriman Blue
- Balor Brown
- Cadian Fleshtone
- Dawnstone
- DoomBull Brown
- Evil Sunz Scarlet
- Fire Dragon Bright
- Kislev Flesh
- Lothern Blue
- Moot Green
- Pink Horror
- Screaming Skull
- Stormhost Silver
- Temple Guard Blue
- Trollslayer Orange
- Tuskgor Fur
- Ushabti Bone
- White Scar
- Yriel Yellow
- Deathclaw Brown – Additional one for doing brown fur dry brush (we do lots of rats)
- Skrag Brown – Additional one for doing brown fur dry brush (we do lots of rats)
- Karak Stone – Additional one for dry brushing over Rhinox hide and other browns for highlighting
- Stormvermin Fur – Additional one for doing grey fur dry brush (we do lots of rats)
- Skavebblight Dinge – Additional one for doing grey fur dry brush (we do lots of rats)
- Scale Colour – Metal n’ Alchemy – Speed Metal
- Scale Colour – Metal n’ Alchemy – Citrine Alchemy
- Scale Colour – Metal n’ Alchemy – White Alchemy