My son got into Warhammer stuff several years ago, and I got the task of painting his figures for him. So investigating Warhammer sites might be helpful.
You say resin miniatures, which may require different treatment (I have no idea what the Warhammer ones were made of), but with the ones I did, the first advice was to spray on a base coat to cover the entire figure, and I'm pretty sure I used black for this. Do it where there is plenty of ventilation, eg outside! Then leave them overnight. There was a nice set of modelling paints and a very fine brush involved. And spray varnish for when they are well and truly done, which again, lots of ventilation.
It was certainly possible to get a lot of detail going. I really liked the metallic paints—I think there was silver, gold and a dark grey metal of some kind which was very good for chains and such. Quite often it was possible to skim the brush very lightly across detailed stuff (chains!) so that the moulding of the models allowed the paint on the top, with the undercoated black in the highlights to make things obvious.
As my son's set was mostly chaps in uniform and all alike, it was efficient to do one colour at a time—skin, red armour, metal etc. You may have more fun with yours since they'll perhaps be rather more varied.
For more advice, a Games Workshop store would probably be very useful. Also a good place to get the paints, if you need them.
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You say resin miniatures, which may require different treatment (I have no idea what the Warhammer ones were made of), but with the ones I did, the first advice was to spray on a base coat to cover the entire figure, and I'm pretty sure I used black for this. Do it where there is plenty of ventilation, eg outside! Then leave them overnight. There was a nice set of modelling paints and a very fine brush involved. And spray varnish for when they are well and truly done, which again, lots of ventilation.
It was certainly possible to get a lot of detail going. I really liked the metallic paints—I think there was silver, gold and a dark grey metal of some kind which was very good for chains and such. Quite often it was possible to skim the brush very lightly across detailed stuff (chains!) so that the moulding of the models allowed the paint on the top, with the undercoated black in the highlights to make things obvious.
As my son's set was mostly chaps in uniform and all alike, it was efficient to do one colour at a time—skin, red armour, metal etc. You may have more fun with yours since they'll perhaps be rather more varied.
For more advice, a Games Workshop store would probably be very useful. Also a good place to get the paints, if you need them.