Ace/aro, lolita fashion, board games, solarpunk. Partner of @StarDustNeon
I never tried mini painting because Warhammer 40k is my least favorite fictional setting and aesthetic.
Walked into my leftist wargame store and bought a box of Infinity models and have felt my humanity come back.
I'll write about this later, but the starting point is:
I'm at the bottom of skill level, but every time I sit down to paint the inside voice and anxiety quiets.
Warhammer in its various incarnations has such a gravitational effect on the hobby as a whole that it can disguise what else is out there - certainly in the UK until relatively recently. Infinity is the business tho
Keen to see your minis, as and when! 
Oh wow thank you! I'm still at the "learning the right ratio of water and paint" step, so my minis are really basic. (I haven't even attemped to learn shading yet either.)
But honestly, just painting itself is fun enough. I love my badly painted robots.
hell yeah we love a badly painted robot around these parts 
and if you're having fun while "bad" at painting, you're already ahead of most folks early on!
@sonicsledgehammer here has an excellent array of tutorials for a variety of mini ranges (though mostly warhammer - man's gotta eat) and was my re-entry into the hobby a few years back :) they're all digestible and plainly delivered too. youtube channel under the same name, if you fancy. otherwise, keep on doing you!
I don't feel comfortable putting my stuff online/mostly just want to keep painting for me. But I'd be happy to discord DM or email pictures of my first few minis to you if you want. :D
I also hate 40k, but AoS, Warcry and now the old world did the trick for me. Infinity sounds awesome though, and I might try some day
