Before actually painting the miniatures I have to pick a "faction" that I like, there are many interesting factions in warhammer but I was very interested in two factions the Tyranids and the Astra militarum. The Tyranids are aliens that will eat and consume all living and biomass in unfortunate galaxies leaving no one or creature behind. I found them interesting because not only is the lore cool but also they remind me of the Kaijus from Pacific Rim. The other faction The Astra militarum can be thought of as humanity, most of their forces compromises of soldiers and vehicles and the reason they fight is for survival and for their emperor.  They are seen as the underdogs of this universe and rely on numbers and firepower to defeat their enemies.   Because I really liked the underdogs I chose to paint and buy Astra militarum minis. While looking for these minis I found out that they are very expensive and due to the fact that I am funding this project myself I couldn't make/buy a big army.   So I had to choose what is the most economical and interesting.  My friend also advised me to buy sets but due to the huge cost a set is for little ol me I couldn't buy one so I resorted to buying the singular minis and boxes.  Before buying the minis I did some research on what paints and colours I would want to have and get but my friend said I don't really need to follow how Game workshop wants me to paint and I should just paint it how I wanted to. So I bought very dark colours and metallic colours because those are the colours that I really liked.  Overall I spent around 2500baht on paint and glue and shading colours alone. 

The first minis that I painted was the Heavy weapon squads equipted with motors. I chose this squad because I don't have the money to buy artillery so this would have to do. The heavy motor squad comprises of 3 figures which has 2 soldiers and a motor per figure. The idea of this mini is that the heavy motor squad will provide "light explosive barrages" to the enemies  which I found to be interesting. I started with painting the soldiers I used Cadian green and Death korp drab to colour the uniforms ( death korp drab for their uniform and Cadian green for armour) and painted the motor and guns black and bronze ( Abbadon black and I used Brass scorpion bronze to highlight the motor's opening ). After that I also painted the insignias that are on the soldiers armour to be either bronze or silver. For the "skin colour" I mixed peach colour with corax white to get that light peach colour that I want.  Glasses on the soldiers are painted black and helmets are painted cadian green.  This took me 4 days to paint per figure ( due to school as well as homework) so in total it took me 12 days. I also bought a technical ( paint for the circle thingy) and grass to show that they are on a terrain I also painted sandbags brown.   ( 1845 thb) 

After my first few minis I bought a pack of a Death Korp of Kreig squad as my infantry ( 2000 baht in total), the death korp of kreig are zelous soldiers that are willing to die and fight in any scenario for their emperor.   Due to their design being influenced my German uniforms from the first world war I  I painted them abit grey with mixes of green. I painted their bags brown and their belts brown but I painted their uniform a mix of mechanicus grey mixed with death korp drab green giving this weird dark greyish colour, I then painted their guns black with Abbadon black and  painted bayonets , clubs, and swords with a silver colour. One of the kreigsmen has a flame thrower so I highlighted and painted the metallic parts of the flame thrower with Brass bronze. I also bought new technical for them because I really like the grey colour so I used Astrogranite as a technical ), there's also a special figure with a medic bag so I used Corax white to paint that bag white.   It took me around 10 days for 5 figures so around 2 days per mini.  after awhile I wanted to experiment with new things and colours so I bought glow in the dark colours and applied it on the grass that's on the figure's circular base, personally I think it looks very cool. 

After getting my infantry squad done I bought a leman russ tank, This is just a normal main battle tank that is a staple of all Astramilitarum army so because of this it was a no brainer pick up. It costs around 1900 baht per tank, due to this price tag I could only get one ( this is very sad ).The leman Russ that I made is fitted with a battle cannon turret and a Laz cannon secondary gun.  First I painted the whole tank with Mechnicus grey and anally and painstakingly painted each and every bolt and welding that is on the tank with a copper colour called hashnut copper. I also painted any exterior or welding metal with a silver mechnicus colour. The tracks of the tank is coloured with Abbadon black. The laz cannon is painted with abbadon black and then fitted with copper rings and a silver mechanicus tip. I also painted the little window on the tank with mechnicus silver. I also took creative liberty in painting bits of the tank with mechnicus silver to show that the colour is wearing off due to war or battle. I also shaded   the sides of the tank to emulate dust and soil on the tank I shaded this with agrax earth shade. Then to the commander, I painted the commander like how I painted the Kreigsmen but I painted the shoulder pads green, I also fitted the commander with an extra kreigsmen head that I had.  This took me 11 days to finish but it was worth it. 

After the Leman Russ tank  I bought myself an APC ( armored personnel carrier )  one of the few decent APCs that are in the Astra militarum inventory is the Chimera APC. I bought the Chimera APC for 1800 baht, I fitted the APC with a boltgun turret and a boltgun ( a bolt gun is a machine gun)  secondary the reason for this is because I want to have some anti infantry   vehicle in my very small army.  Just like the Leman russ I painted the chasis and the APC itself with mechnicus grey and the tracks with Abbadon black. The guns are painted black  and fitted with the copper colour, like the Leman russ I painted every bolt and welding copper, the hatches are painted silver. But here I really improved my shading skills well atleast in making the darn thing look abit more dirty and dark, I mostly applied shading to the chasis of the APC and the tracks. The msot time consuming part of this whole thing is painting the weldings.  

By chance my friend who has an extra Astra militarum heavy weapons team, the reason he had this is because it was in one of the packs that he bought so he sold it to me for cheap ( 200 baht), Just like what I did for the Heavy motor squads I painted the soldiers with Cadian green ann death korp drab. The only big difference is the weapon, I painted the laz cannon black and the shield with cadian green , the Laz cannon was also fitted with silver rings. But everything stays the same just like for the heavy motors team/squad.